When my Homily was having her kittens, she utterly insisted that I sit beside the box and hold her paw. That was all, but truly. When I left her after kitten #2 - just to go and get a drink, to see me through - she got out of the box and followed me, complaining all the while, with kitten #3 already starting to show. I hasted her back, she lay down and wafted her paw at me, I took hold, and she went back to business...