Jayden's first week 6-13-14 - 6-19-14

6-13-14
Ryan brought the kids back up to the hospital to see Baby Jayden and Jayden gave them their presents.

Aunt Julia brought the boys up to meet him too! All the cousins had a good time meeting the baby and playing with each other. A little too good of a time. Apparently there is an emergency button on one of the walls that the adults didn't notice. A pretty big blue button all by its self. So one of the kids pushed it and nurses came running in.  My nurse was in there with us checking me when it happened.  She was so nice about it. She said she's had that happen to her in the nursery before. Gave the nurses a good scare and a work out though. I felt bad, but they were all very nice about it. Once we knew there was a button there, we didn't let the kids near it! 

Aunt Julia and Jayden

Uncle Andrew and Aunt Cloe came to see Baby Jayden too!

My sweet angel baby. Feeling so blessed today.

Mindy and Alyssa came up to visit and brought Mom D up. Mom had back surgery two days before Jayden was born.  I'm so glad Mindy was able to bring her up to visit us! Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures! Since we JUST got moved into a new ward the Relief Society presidency came up to visit AND so did the Bishop and his wife! So nice. That really helped me feel better about the new ward and the timing of the boundary change!

6-14-14

Time to go home! 

Jessica, Tiara, and Alena watched spent the night with the kids and we JUST missed getting home in time for Alena to see Jayden. There were still lots of fans waiting and so excited to see him again when we got home!

After nap cuddles with my Brayden baby. I missed these 

And then we shared these yummy yummy cupcakes the relief society president brought me. Sooo good!

6-15-14

Ryan took the kids to church and Jayden and I stayed home and rested.  As soon as they got home he got lots of hugs from everyone!

Grandpa Wilson came to see baby Jayden again :) Grammy is sick and hasn't been able to see Baby Jayden yet, so sad!

 6-16-14 Monday

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Most of you don't know this, but Ryan was laid off at the end of April. It was very unexpected and hard. Through it all we've been very blessed. The Lords hand has been very evident. He was with us comforting and guiding us the whole time. And now to the exciting news. Ryan started his new job this morning! Such a huge blessing!!

So Ryan started his new job today. Yay!!!  I'm going to be real honest right now. This week was REALLY hard. One of, if not the hardest of my life.  I had a baby Thursday evening. On Monday morning at 5:30am Ryan left for his new job.  My mom was sick and couldn't come and help, my mother in law had just had back surgery so she couldn't come and help, my sister Julia was on trek with her husband, and my teenage sisters all had camps and couldn't come help either.  I had lots of offers of help while I was pregnant, but I thought my family would be available to help. If Jayden had come when I thought he would (when all the others did) I would have had a lot of help. So it was me and all six kids at home alone all day.  The kids were pretty good about it.  They wanted to be out running around going and doing lots of things, but I wasn't healed enough for that.  Kaitlyn was a HUGE huge help.  All 3 of the oldest were. One of the mornings, after a night of no sleep, Jayden had just woken up and I was soooo tired. So, so tired. Kaitlyn came upstairs just after I finished feeding him and said can I hold him? She took him downstairs and I slept for two hours! Two hours! It was so nice. I needed it so badly. She is such a good and sweet girl.  Logan, Emily, and Kaitlyn also learned how to do the laundry.  I wasn't healed enough to do it yet, and we were running out of clean clothes.  So they did it. I couldn't physically move it, but I stood in there and told them what to do.  They were so excited and proud of themselves! Another reason this was a hard week is I started to get mastitis and Jayden was having a really hard time latching.  It was so painful.  I ended up having to pump and bottle feed.  So I was stuck to a machine half the day and taking care of Jayden the other half of the day.  The only saving grace is our new ward sent people over with dinner.   We wouldn't have eaten without those meals.  The hard part was my house was trashed. Trashed bad. All 6 kids were home all day long and I was barely functioning. So people I don't know at all were coming in my home, usually while I had to pump and this was the first time meeting me.  There were some who had quite shocked looks on their faces. I just wanted to say, you have no idea. No idea. Your the first adult I've seen all day. And I can't do everything, or really much of anything right now. Oh well. What can you do! We needed the meals. But we made it. I learned I can do hard, hard things! It was so hard to have Ryan gone all day long, but he helped as much as he could when he got home in the evenings. Despite the fact that he just started a brand new completely different job.  He'd get the house cleaned up, put the kids in bed, help me with the baby, fold the clothes, then go upstairs and study for his new job, and help out with Jayden in the middle of the night too.  Then start again the next day. I'm truly blessed to have him!

Kaitlyn drew a picture she wanted to share, It says "If you feel alone your not. Jesus is always watching you! -Kaitlyn

True words Kaitlyn, true words!

6-17-14

First time out in public (if a doctors office counts as public) and I spring a leak. Awesome. The whole right side of my shirt is wet. ‪#‎nursingproblems‬

6-19-14

Such sweet brothers! This baby sure is loved!

I was just showing the kids Jayden's umbilical cord fell off last night, and Logan whose been very concerned about it says "oh good. He looks like a real human now!" Haha I love the things he says! Yesterday I was pumping and Emmy asks what is that doing? And Logan says, "it's milking her. Right mom, its milking you." Haha.

Happy one week Jayden!!

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.

June 1-11 2014

6-2-14
The boys have been doing this all morning and I just thought it was so cute.  When Daddy came downstairs they just had to show him :)

Today at lunch I gave the boys their bowls and one for me. Brayden pointed to mine and said for Mom.
Me: is this bowl for mom? 
B: no, for baby!
M: for the baby? (Patting my tummy)
B: Yes!!
So cute!! We're all excited to meet the new baby. Hopefully soon!!

And on Sunday Logan was turned around in sacrament meeting trying to talk to his friend a few pews away. I turned him around and he says to me but mom I'm talking to my friend. I'm using Hand English. 
Haha, I had to turn away to hide my smile. I love these kids of mine!!

We had so much fun on Saturday for our date night karaoke that we decided to do it for FHE.  The kids had a BLAST!!

6/3/14
Ryan's FB post
This is the benefit of having many children in our family. This little three year old jewel correctly put all of the clothes in one hamper away and was about to work on the other one without us knowing. He learned that by watching Mommy and Daddy and his three older siblings. I have no doubt he will carry that same attitude of service into adulthood.
He's such a big helper!

6/4/14

Logan Selfie

6/5/14

Evans not feeling well today and Ryan watched the kids while I went to the OB(39weeks). Came home to this sweetness. Love my boys!!

Logan and Mrs Nance. Love her!! Last day of kindergarten, they sang us some songs. It was adorable!

Those of you who've known Logan for a few years will know what a huge deal this is. 3 kids out of each class had short speaking parts. Logan was chosen. He is so clear! You can understand him perfectly! So proud of my Logan!!

More from their short program. I know I'm probably the only one who'll watch these, but they were so adorable.  Love my kindergartner Logan!

Logan is on the first row in a dark blue shirt with the white circle towards the center, just to the left of the man in the blue's head. Hope that makes sense!

6/6/14

Ryan took Logan and the kids to Grandma D's and he played so hard he needed a nap.  He crashed on the floor in Grandma's room.  Funny boy.

6/11/14

Today is my due date. This is the longest I've ever been pregnant. Here's to hoping Jayden makes his day-beau today or tomorrow!

Em took these while I was waiting for it to be time to go to my 40 week appointment. I was not happy to STILL be pregnant and very nervous for the upcoming delivery.

So my 40 week appointment did NOT go how I'd hoped.  I was sad, mad, depressed, stressed, frustrated, and oh so angry when I came home.  Let me start out by saying I was pregnant, so supper emotional anyway. Well I'm 40 weeks. DUE. So I figured I could talk with the dr. and set a time to be induced, you know becuase I was due! 

Well lets backup a second.  Ryan has been home job searching for the last 6 weeks.  It's been WONDERFUL to have him home, but also super stressful as we try to figure out how to pay for everything. Plus I'm about to have a baby. Plus the stress of job hunting. So we were blessed to have a job offered to Ryan! But he also had a very promising interview the next couple days and the offer was very low.  So we were praying and counseling together and praying some more to find out what was best for our family also, I'm about to have a baby any minute! And our ward (church congregation) got split.  Which meant that we were going to be meeting with new people.  Sunday was our first week in the new ward.  I was glad to be able to go so that the kids could meet their new teachers and kids in their classes BEFORE I had the baby. But really it felt like we moved the week before having a baby.  All new faces again.  So hard. But still it was good.  It's so wonderful the gospel is growing so quickly here and that we are meeting more people.  I love meeting new people. It's just sooo much change all at once. So, YAY we accepted the job offer!  Ryan has a job! Which he starts monday, in downtown Dallas. An hour and twenty minutes away.  And it's my due date today.  I'm 40 weeks and it's the Wednesday before Ryan starts a new job.  So since it's a new job he's not going to be taking time off to stay home with me. Talk about stressful!!  This baby HAS to come this week or Ryan might not be there. So I have all this going on and I go to my 40 week appointment and my doctor informs that she WON'T induce me!  ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!  But she'll set an appointment for induction Monday morning. Supper helpful. (eye roll) So it's perfectly healthy to go overdue up to two weeks, so there's no rush. Also, it's perfectly healthy, but since your overdue you need to check into the hospital this weekend for a stress test and ultrasound. But its perfectly healthy to go longer, so I wont induce you. But don't forget to set your appointment, it's really importnt. Ugghh, she finally consented to strip my membranes, but left me with the impression that it wouldn't really do anything. And she'd see me sometime next week.  I went home and cried. I was so frustrated and angry!  

I did everything I could think of to get labor started on my own.  Luckily I went into labor the next day.  Oh and I was also not wanting to wait until Friday because it would be Frday the 13th.  Haha, I know it doesn't really matter, but I just wanted to have the baby Wednesday, Thursday, or Saturday. I am so glad he came on Thursday and I didn't have to wait longer.  I prayed so hard Wednesday night and just poured my heart out to God. I'm so glad I have a Heavenly Father that understands me and loves me, even if sometimes the answer is no. Happily this time the answer was yes :)