Monday, January 22, 2007

Talk About A Sports Fan

A woman in Illinois induced labor on Friday so that her husband could go see the the NFC Championship game. Ezzie, would you convince Serach to do that? :)

PALOS HEIGHTS, Ill. — Nine months pregnant and married to a fervent Bears fan with tickets to Sunday's NFC Championship game, Colleen Pavelka didn't want to risk going into labor during the game against the New Orleans Saints. Due to give birth on Monday, Pavelka's doctor told her Friday she could induce labor early. She opted for the Friday delivery.

"I thought, how could (Mark) miss this one opportunity that he might never have again in his life?" said Pavelka, 28, from the southwestern Chicago suburb of Homer Glen.

At 10:45 p.m. Friday, Mark Patrick Pavelka was born at Palos Community Hospital after close to six hours of labor.

While her husband watched the Bears play the New Orleans Saints at Soldier Field Sunday, Colleen planned to watch in the hospital with the baby wrapped in a Bears blanket _ a Christmas gift from his grandmother.

The couple named Mark after his father, who wore a "Monsters of the Midway" shirt during the delivery.

"If he wasn't born by Sunday and the Bears won, I would have named him Rex," after Bears quarterback Rex Grossman, joked Mark Pavelka, 28.

Mark is the couple's second son.

4 comments:

Ezzie said...

I saw this and debated. I for sure would try... but Serach would kill me. Literally.

The pillow on the couch only goes so far... (and if you don't know what I mean, you'll see. :) )

But when she was getting induced, I did watch the NCAA tournament. :P

SaraK said...

Yeah, I have seen that pillow at your house :)

Anonymous said...

Ezzie, thats pretty funny! When my wife was being induced, we both watched the NBA finals [the pistons lost :-(]

fashionista said...

Haha, I heard about that, so crazy!