Ariah Stone

At least that is how the birth certificate reads at the moment. Who would have thought that it would be so hard to decide how to spell a name. Probably just because we invented the name. Well here are the stats.
1:00 am Contractions start-- they start at about five minuets apart and varied from 5 to 1 min apart at the get go. Ouch.
2:15 am Went to the hospital
3:00 am Initial assessment says that I can stay at the hospital, I was at a 7 and 100% effaced, still having very frequent contractions.
4:00 ish am. EPIDURAL!!! Landon agrees the best thing in the whole world. We both tried to sleep for a while but we were both a little hyped up.
9:15 ish I have reached a 9 but the contractions have stopped. They put me on pitocin and they started back up.
10:15 the nurse says we are going to try to push for about 15 min. She says that it takes over an hour for first time moms to push so we will get started and call the Dr. when we start to get close.
15 min later.... the Dr. is called in, baby is coming now.
5 min later... 10:44 am. TA DAH! Ariah is here. They kept asking if it was really my first baby because I pushed really well and she came so fast. It may have just been flattery since they knew what I had just gone through.

Ariah Stone 5/22/09 10:44am
6 lbs 14 oz, 19 inches long