Spears and Federline welcomed son Jayden James on September 12, 2006. The younger Federline was born at 1:11 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. “Everything is great,” Jamie Spears told Access Hollywood after Jayden was born. Two months later, however, Spears filed for divorce after three years of marriage. Federline opened up to about his and Spears’ parenting relationship in December 2008, a year and a half after their divorce was finalized.

The first couple years of their life they were all over the place,” he said. “My main thing for my kids is that they get to live life the way — or as close to the way — that most do. It’s going to be hard not to spoil them, but I don’t want to.” Federline also admitted that having kids was a huge adjustment in their marriage.

It’s hard enough to be in a marriage, and then have a kid, then kids, it changes everything,” he said. “For me, I’d become more concerned with my children. Not that I ignored Britney, but my kids are always most important.” Federline explained that he fought for full custody because he felt he could provide a more stable environment.

A reason why we ended up going through the custody battle is because I want my kids to have a mom and love her. I don’t want to do this by myself,” he said. “Part of the whole thing was to get them safe and get her to where she will always be there. Because there were points in time where the whole world didn’t know whether she would be around for them.” Federline also shared that then-2-year-old Jayden was “a little terror.” He explained, “If Preston is picking on him — well, usually it’s not Preston that’s picking on him — he’ll just go and terrorize the whole house. For no reason at all.