April 22: I’ve been following Heather and Michael’s blog throughout the day. She was admitted to the hospital last night for her scheduled induction. As of mid-day today, it sounded like labor was progressing. However, this afternoon, what I’m hearing is that the things aren’t moving forward, so the doctors are planning on continuing with the drug-induced labor until 8pm tonight and at that point shut off the drugs to give Heather a chance to eat and sleep. Then they’ll start up again in the morning.
The medical professionals are all really happy with how both Heather and the baby are doing. And just so you know, whatever happened to Allan occurred before labor even started, so there isn’t any increased concerns about how this baby does through labor and delivery. We just really want to get her out and hold her!
Althea, Bryan, Andrew, and Sylvia