Teacher has baby early so hubby can watch Bears
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.
Bears' berth or baby's birth? Wife of Chicago fan delivers
Every sports town brags that it has the best fans in the world (except maybe Philadelphia), but teacher Colleen Pavelka might have put Chicago over the top when she asked doctors to induce labor on Friday to assure her husband would be able to attend yesterday's NFC championship game at Soldier Field.
Obviously, Mark Pavelka is a huge Chicago Bears fan if he was grappling with the choice of watching his wife have a baby or maybe watching Rex Grossman lay a giant egg, but to hear that his wife was willing to move up the birth of the couple's second child just so he wouldn't have to face that decision, well, it almost brought tears to my eyes.
My wife would never have done that for me, not even if Southern California were playing for the national championship and Christina Aguilera was the halftime entertainment. I know this because she made me sit in a straight-back chair for 12 hours in a maternity ward one night when there was really nothing I could do for her other than utter an occasional encouraging word and then duck.
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