It's A Girl!!!

We are so happy to announce the birth of our sweet baby GIRL!!! Tayahna Faith White, born 1/21/10 at 11:08 am! She weighed 6 lbs 9 oz and was 18 inches long! She is healthy, strong and beautiful!

Sorry for those of you who do not want details but I am going to print this one day and am using this as a journal, so I can't say I didn't warn you! With baby #3 we decided to be surprised, which was the neatest experience we could have had! We were so anxious and excited to know what we were going to have! It was as if Heavenly Father handed her down to us straight from heaven and I especially felt so blessed to have experienced that wonderful feeling!

The labor could not have gone any better than it did. Doctor George induced me at 38 weeks because he knew it was only a matter of time before she was going to come, which as you could imagine, I was SO grateful for! The other doctor would not induce me that early, but doc George did not want me to have a baby in the canyon during mid winter, and he knew I was dialating and effacing so he gave us the go ahead! So we got to the hospital at 6:00 am on the 21st. They got me all ready and broke my water and gave me petocin by 8:00 that morning, and by 11:00 she was born. Doctor George said he was so grateful that we induced when we did or I probably would have had her in the canyon if I would have gone naturally because she came so fast being induced. Doc George said it was almost record breaking time!

So here comes details..... The nurse checked me and I was at a 5/6 dialation. By that point I got up and it hit me. They gave me a shot for pain, but I could not handle the pain anymore so I said I want an epidural (especially if I still had three hours to go). So I said I would go to the bathroom while I was up and then get the epidural. So I went and sat down and all of the sudden I NEEDED to push! I yelled for the nurse, she ran in and helped me back to the bed. They called the doctor to come and I was pushing at this point. The nurse said try to breath through the contractions if you can and I looked at her like she was crazy! So the doctor comes flying in, and I told him I needed more pain stuff, he looked at me and said, "Sorry Kristi, you are about to have a baby! He was barely able to put his over coat on (he did not even have a chance to tie it up) and he told me to push twice and there SHE was.

We are so excited to have Tayahna be apart of our family! It is amazing how you can love someone the moment you see them!
Tayahna Faith

Her first bath home in the sink! She did not like it very well!

So sweet! Tayahna is such a good baby thus far! I am grateful to have such a mello baby, especially since I have two other children to tend to as well.

Daddy, Mommy and Tayahna!

Jaden with his new sister! He really wanted a boy but was so happy to hold her when she came home! It was pretty cute. He kept calling her Tiawana, haha but now he has it down pat!

Tayahna gave them both presents when she got home from the hospital. This was as close as Lyxi would get to holding her. She was pretty jealous, but now she is much better and loves her baby!

I wanted to thank all of those who helped with everything and brought in meals and for your thoughts and prayers! I especially want to thank my mom and dad for being there and helping me with the kids. I know they went way out of their way to help. I love you guys so much and couldn't ask for better grandparents for our kids!