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Buddy, you straight up said it wasn't her first litter based on the fact that she had 5 kittens. That's dumb. What you said was dumb.
https://www.cats.org.uk/media/1029/eg18_pregnant_cats-_birth_and_care_of_young_kittens.pdf
combined with pretty fast birthing where she had contractions only for a few hours (my wife even went to work, fully expecting to have the five hours of time after the first contractions started about 4 hours before) and a pretty strainless birthing itself where she was still rubbing against my legs when i noticed the first kitten in its membrane starting to prod out of her) it's not dumb to expect that it wasn't her first litter at that point, but not before. i goaded her softly to her birthing box when i noticed that. It was an educated guess, not freaking science.