Jayden Marshal Dalton

Baby Jayden is here!

Julia and the boys came over and the kids had so much fun playing.  They made these silly videos. The best is when Cooper knocked his horse over.  We all got a kick out of that one, lol.

I had been having contractions all day, but I was soo nervous that I didn't want to go to the hospital.  It didn't help that a few weeks before I thought I was in labor and they sent me home.  I just could not handle if that happened again! Finally I called the doctors office and they said to come on in.  Julia, Ryan, and Tiara had to practically kick me out of the house.  Haha.  Once we got into the hospital they had me sit down in the waiting area and then after a while they took us back to financial.  Both Ryan and I were like what? Shouldn't we go to L&D? Once the lady in the back realized what was going on she was like, take them upstairs!  Haha. I think the poor girl was new.  Also I'm a very calm laborer, so even when the labors intense, I'm not obviously in labor.  If we get that far there's only about a 1/2 maybe an hour left :)

On the way upstairs we took this picture

40 weeks and one day and this baby is finally on the way. Should be here today :)  2:55pm

Ryan and I got settled into our room.  There was something wrong with the computer in my room so two nurses spent a huge amount of time messing with that and I was "strapped into" the bed.  I wasn't actually tied down, but they had the monitors on me and I was just laying there and not able to get up and move around.  With Evan and Brayden I had natural births but hadn't 100% decided what I wanted to do this time.  In my Lancaster hospital I was able to walk around and labor in the tub.  Not so much here.  I think if I'd had been more sure of what I wanted and more vocal this part would have gone a lot better.  As it was I started stressing and with nothing to take my mind off of it I decided to just get the epidural.  Also my doctor was in California and not available so the on call doctor came in and meet me and broke my water.  I had met her once before and while she was a capable doctor I wasn't super impressed with her.  But she came in and broke my water so I was happy for that. This birth was different in that I had talked with my sisters and they wanted to come to the birth.  Ryan and I talked about it and were both fine with it, so we invited them to come if they wanted.  Julia and Tiara were close by so they came a little bit before Jayden was born.  Once I was dilated the nurse came into tell me that the oncall Doctor had two of us at a ten at the same time and was I willing to wait.  Well since I had the epidural I didn't mind so we waited a bit longer. (not that they gave me much of a choice) A little bit later someone I hadn't met came in and introduced herself.  She is a midwife at the practice I went to and wanted to know if I would mind if she delivered me.  Seeing as I didn't know the other Doc, I was just fine with her. Well, I'm SO glad she came!  I really liked her. I wish I had seen her the whole time!  She loved that my sisters were there and she got Tiara (12 and wants to be a Doctor when she grows up) all suited up and had her deliver Jayden! It was soo cool.  I was waiting the whole time for Tiara to freak out or faint or even make a grossed out face, but she didn't.  She was right there in the middle of the action and loved every second of it.  Seriously it was so cool. I'm so glad both Julia and Tiara got to come.  Julia is about to start her last semester of nursing school and it was cool to see her know what the nurses were talking about.  So neat.  Jess was at dance and missed it by like 5 minutes.  So sad. So Jayden was born and he was the largest baby by far and I didn't even tear a little. No stitches were needed at all.  I really liked this midwife! I only pushed small pushes and only like 2 or 3 times. Probably because I sat at a 10 waiting for the other doctor so Jayden was very ready to come out!  Jayden Marshal Dalton was born at 5:44 weighing 9lbs 13oz and 21inches. He's a big baby! I thought Logan was big and he was just shy of 9lbs. Here's some pictures of Jayden being delivered by his Aunt Tiara!

WARNING: some of the pictures are gross. So you have been forewarned :)

Getting her gown on. There almost wasn't enough time, they had to really hurry!

Baby Jayden's here!

I didn't see this part, but she had Tiara hold my placenta. Ha, I've had 6 kids and this is the first time I even saw it.  Crazy girl loved it!

Getting weighed

Mommy and Baby Jayden

Mommy, Daddy, and Jayden

Grandpa and Aunt Julia

Aunt Tiara and Jessica

Unfortunetly RIGHT when the kids got there to meet baby Jayden they had just put him in a warmer because he needed to warm up. So the kids were so excited to see him, but they couldn't hold him for a little while.  Here they are checking him out for the first time.

They got him warmed up and moved us to the recovery room and then the kids got to hold baby Jayden!!

Kaitlyn

Emily

Logan

Evan

And Brayden

It's safe to say this baby is very loved!  We're so happy he's finally here!  And a huge Thanks to Uncle Jace for watching my and Julia's kids so that Ryan, Julia, and Tiara could be at the hospital with me.  He got to come up and see baby Jayden with Dad that night too, but I didn't get any pictures.