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A friend of mine had a cat which had kittens. It was a few weeks when he realised, after watching one try to take a dump and fail, it didn't have an opening for it's anus. He said it was bloated and abdomen was hard. The vet said they had only heard of this and never witnessed it themselves. Thing had to be put down.
99% of the time, a swollen hard belly on a kitten means it's infested with worms though.
It is treatable, and financially? I don't know this is worse or better than what I said.
There's deworming product you can buy, it's not expensive and it's pretty standard. It's something you feed them with a feeding syringe. The worst part about it is cleaning up the mess in the litterbox cause the whole process gives em the runs pretty bad. But it's over within a week or so.