The final day of 2024 was not comfortable for Aleah Hard Vandehey.
And then she wound up in Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital. The good news is that by the end of New Year’s Day, she was holding a baby – the first of the year for east Linn County.
Nearly 36 weeks pregnant, Aleah was experiencing false labor – or at least that’s what she thought.
“I had been going through prodromal labor for, like,…