Signal handling in Linux with C

Hi!
I am doing my project to develop a simple shell. I have a problem with handling signals that I hope you guys can help me.

I am using signal() function to catch the signal sending from the forked children to the shell, which is:
            signal(SIGCHLD, handler);
However, this is really confusing. When the user input a command into my shell, normally the shell parse it and call the corresponding programs. However, when I have a pipe like:
ls | cat | cat | cat | cat > a.txt
Then there are multiple files running at once, and the signal handler does not seem to be able to catch multiple signal at one time...

I tried to use signal mask in my handler (in the code snippet).      

But this does not seem help... I also applied the race running idea with signal suspend function to delay the moment the child return the signal but also, it does not work because I think at some moment, two child sends two SIGCHLDs at once, and that is really hard to control...
Right now, what I am doing is ask for the children to wait 1 second before sending any signals to the parent, and this works actually. But I don't think this is a smart way to handle signal...

I hope you can help me. Thank you!

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sigset_t nmask, omask;	
	sigemptyset(&nmask);
	sigaddset(&nmask, SIGCHLD);
	signal(SIGCHLD, handler);
	sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &nmask, &omask);			//Block all SIGCHLD signals
	/* My main code goes here */
	sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &omask, NULL);			//Unblock SIGCHLD