Mom gets induced so Dad can go to the game
Categories: Pregnancy & Birth, That's Entertainment
I'm not into football. In fact, I don't even really like it. This story, I'm afraid, doesn't improve my opinion of it either. It seems that Colleen and Mark Pavelka are big fans of the Chicago Bears, who, it seems, were involved in some big game yesterday. Although her second son was due to be born today, they both worried that he, like his older brother, would show up a day early, foiling Mark's plans to see the game in person.So, when her doctors gave her the option of an early delivery, Colleen Pavelka jumped on it like a linebacker on a loose ball. After almost six hours of labor, she gave birth at 10:45pm, Friday night. "I thought, how could [Mark] miss this one opportunity that he might never have again in his life?" Colleen said. "When the doctor said I could be induced so he could go to the game, that's the train I got on."
Mark said he didn't talk his wife into giving birth early, but he's certainly glad she did. I guess, if it's medically okay, this was a pretty nice thing for her to do. Come to think of it, if I had known this was an option, I might have suggested it when Sara was born so as not to miss the Free Folk Festival (which Rachel made me leave just because she went into labor.)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Lisa 1-22-2007 @ 10:43AM
Geee...How nice. Bet he'll be a real big help during those early days. Next time, I think I'll get induced early so I can leave the baby with Dad and not miss that yearly sale at Anthropologie.
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Lea 1-22-2007 @ 11:07AM
He owes her many, many diaper changes and 3 AM hours spent putting the baby back to sleep.
- L
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becca 1-22-2007 @ 12:42PM
I'm a HUGE Bears football fan, and my husband even more so. I totally respect what she did. Her husband had tickets to the Bears/Saints NFC Championship game!! Of COURSE he should go, if it's not going to put his wife or new baby in peril. I'll bet she watched the game on TV with visiting family members and/or friends, like I did the day after my son was born, and was thrilled that her husband got to be there in person. You can't move very much anyway, so why not?
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Dylan Emrys, M.A. Pre- and Periatal Psychology 1-22-2007 @ 12:04PM
See my post (click my name to view it) about the effects being induced had on me, 38 years ago.
I really want to stress that babies have their own timing, and are aware and sentient regarding what happens to them and barring medically necessary circumstances, why put a baby into that kind of distress?
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Dylan 1-22-2007 @ 12:09PM
That link above doesn't seem to be working try this one if you want to read it, and look for the post, "was your baby late?"
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momma2mingbu 1-22-2007 @ 12:32PM
Sigh.
Sorry.....I guess I'm a bad wife. No way I'd have done that.
My hubby had to miss watching the Super Bowl when I was in labor with our first.
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mamaloo, the doula 1-22-2007 @ 12:58PM
Wow. So a wife should expect to put herself and her as yet unborn child in a position to be at greater risk of complications, including infant and maternal morbidity and mortality so that a guy can watch a football game in person?
Really? For football?!
Couldn't she just phone him on a cell (borrowed?) at the game if she went into labour?
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Antropologa 1-22-2007 @ 1:27PM
They put their new child and the mother at risk for serious complications--for football? And obviously this means the father wasn't planning to be around for the baby's first days which I personally would not tolerate and do not respect.
I don't share these people's values, but as the teenagers say: it's a free country.
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