Calvin Rice wrote:

I just checked on the cat and there were three black kittens,
with the mother in the place I had prepared for them in the
closet. The kittens were groping around squealing and the
mother was in her usual upright position down on all fours.
That is the position the mother had always been getting into
whenever I came in the room, so she may have been nursing the
kittens just before I went in.

I wasn't expecting to panic like this, but I must not do some
ignorant thing that will lose any of these precious kittens.
Any advice is welcome and appreciated.

Wow, I'm sorry, I don't know the answers but I guess you were right and
your orginal plan to take her in Monday would not matter anymore
anyway. So you're a grandpa, sort of. Congrats!

I'm sure someone will answer you soon. I've never been around newborn
kittens. That would be nice if there were only 3, though, but, as you
said, there may well be more to come.

Candace