Baby Blessing

Jayden Janel Collins was blessed by her Daddy on Easter Sunday April 12th. It was so wonderful! She is such a beautiful baby! We had friends and family come!! Thank you to all of you who traveled from Idaho to come see her! :o) We love and miss you all!
She met her Grandma Collins for the first time! Who she loved! She also met her Aunt Sheri and Uncle Tom! Thanks so much for adding to the excitement of the weekend.
We can't wait for all of our friends and family to meet our little Jayden!

2 week check up

Jayden had her 2 week check up today. She is now 21 1/2 inches now (was 19 1/4 inches at birth), and weighs 8 pounds (was 7lbs 5oz at birth). She is growing!! She had a shot today and didn't like that at all, and cried a lot! It was so sad. She is such a little sweetie! We are so glad she is healthy and strong and growing! She still has a long awake time at night, so we are very tired! Can't wait until all she does is wake up to eat then go to bed instead of eating and then wanting to stay awake!!

First Doctor's Appointment

Jayden had her 1st appointment yesterday (she was 9 days old!), she did great! She has gained 7 1/2 ounces since birth! :o) We are excited about that!
We have been enjoying every minute of her! Even though we hardly get sleep! She thinks she needs her Mommy at night. The little sweetie. Although last night she slept in her cradle after her feedings. All the other nights I've had to sleep with her in my arms and Denny's arms too, as soon as we would lay her down she would wake up and cry and want to nurse to sleep. So funny! Hopefully she will keep it up and sleep on her own! She is only 10 days old, so I'm sure things will keep changing but we both got pretty good sleep! Which was so badly needed!

Jayden Janel Collins

This is me a little before I was ready to start pushing


Denny all in his scrubs ready to come into the Operation room

This is them showing her to me for the first time, she is still connected to me.


Denny holding Jayden in the Operation Room


Family picture


Another family picture


This picture was taken today! :o) How cute is she!?!
Jayden has joined our family!! She was born Sunday March 22nd at 1:58pm. She weighed 7lbs 5oz, and was 19 1/4 in long, and has lots of hair! :o)

I was in Labor for 26 hours, 12 was hard labor. We had gone to the hospital on Saturday morning when my contractions were 3 minutes apart, they weren't painful but we went anyway. They monitored me for a couple hours, which an hour of that my contractions were a minute to a minute and a half apart, and by then they were starting to be a little painful. They told me to come back that night if the contractions stayed the same. We came back at 10pm since they hadn't changed and by 11pm I was given a shot of Morphine to help me sleep, they had me stay at the hospital, cause if in the morning the contractions stayed the same they were going to induce labor. I was woken up at 3am by a very painful contraction, Denny was wonderful and helped me get through the contractions. I had to wait until 5am to receive an epidural, someone was ahead of me. By about 530 I was numb pretty much just on my left side and I had to wait again for him to come back and make it so my right side would go numb too. After that was much better! It was wonderful not being able to feel those contractions since I was only feeling them in my lower back. At 10:30 I was Dilated to a 10 and was ready to push Denny, my mom and my sister Julie were in the room with me, I pushed for 2 1/2 hours, she wasn't moving past a certain point, so they told me that they would need to do a c-section since the baby was fitting through, plus her head was face up which made things a little harder. We were totally okay with that, I was so tired from all the pushing.
Denny came in the OR, and brought the camera and took great pictures. I had lots of drugs in me so I was very drowsy.. I could hardly keep my eyes open during the surgery. Denny held my hand, and was a great support.
She came out happy and healthy and so beautiful!!!! Denny went to the nursery with the nurse and showed off his new daughter to the family that was waiting. Just before 3 I was back in my room where Denny and Jayden were waiting. No family could come in for about an hour or so while they monitored Jayden and me. I can't really remember very much more of that day I could hardly keep myself awake. Denny told me I would start talking and then fall asleep.
We stayed in the hospital until Wednesday afternoon.
We are now home and enjoying life with our beautiful daughter! Denny is so great with her and she loves being held by him, and his voice is very soothing to her. He helps with diaper changes and brings her to me for feedings (since I had a c-section I don't move around too well).
We feel so blessed to be parents to Jayden, she is so adorable and such a little angel!

No worries more pics to come!!! :0)

Cute things for our little baby

Here is a cute little dress and a diaper bag that my mom made for me (the little insert for the diaper bag is on the right). I love it all! Thanks mom!



Here is some cute things that Julie made Blanket, Dress, diaper and wipes holder, cover for while I feed the baby, and breast pads. She also made another blanket and a sling too. As soon as I get them I'll take a pic and post them. So cute! Thanks Ju! :o) You are just spoiling me and my little girl! We love it! Thanks Ju! We love it all!

Baby Shower in Oregon! :o)

I had a baby shower a couple weeks ago! It was so great! My sisters and my mom put it all together for me! Thank you!!!!
We had lots of fun and had an amazing turn out. Thank You to all that came, and for your love and support!
Thanks to everyone who came to both of the baby showers, I have everything I need! My mom was at the shower, behind the camera though! So sad that she isn't in any of the pictures!

Baby Bump

Here is my belly it was taken on Sunday.. I feel like I'm huge although so many people tell me I'm so tiny... Ha! This is the biggest I've ever been.. I sure don't feel tiny! :o)