5:00pm Update - Not much progress

Hi all

Not much change to report, which is news, I guess.

The oxytocin was administered and definitely increased the duration and strength of contractions BUT it didn't have the desired effect of increasing dilation. Deb is 5cm dilated - a slight increase but not as much as they hoped. They are giving it 2 more hours. If dilation has increased at that time then they will re-assess. If nothing has changed then it looks like they'll book an OR for a c-section. We don't know when that would be scheduled...hopefully tonight.

Other than that, Deb's temperature is up slightly which could mean infection so they have her on anti-biotics.

Chris was JUST falling asleep when he thought about the car and parking. It was almost an hour expired. I got to the lot and there was a tow-truck there so I drove the car to another lot...where my credit card didn't work and I forgot my cell phone. So back to the emergency lot but now my credit card wouldn't work here either! So I got change and managed to get 2 hours. Grrrr.

Also, I bought "angels and demons" to read but I am having a really hard tim getting past the first page, the so-called "facts". Which is a good reminder to the Dan Brown fans out there...he is a writer of FICTION.