Not now, honey... the game's on!

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:26 am

PALOS HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) - 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.

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:28 am

She's a very devoted wife...I'd kill him!

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:29 am

WonderWendy3;525581 wrote: She's a very devoted wife...I'd kill him!

:wah: I think I'd probably just be glad to have him out of the way!

Post by **Betty Boop** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:31 am

Hamster;525584 wrote: Um..I wouldnt be so obliging!

I went into labour with my first the night my ex had been to a beer festival :rolleyes:

He couldnt stand up right-the midwife was laughing so much!

:wah: That just doesn't read right! He couldn't stand up because the midwife was laughing so much

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:52 am

Nah, thats a bit too sport mad, kids come first, then football, then everything else.

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:58 am

When i went into labour with my 2nd child, i called my ex who was upstairs getting ready for work and said i needed to go to hospital, he told me that he was going to work as he had a tip off where a criminal was in hiding (he's in CID) and assured me that he'd be back in time, i begged him not to go and said that i felt it wouldn't be long until baby came. He went to work and i gave birth 35 minutes later, i could've killed him. Mind you he did become ex 2 weeks later!!