Wife induces labor so husband can go to Bears game

[Buster T]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/nfl/specials/playoffs/2006/01/21/bc.fbn.bears.earlydeliv.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

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

Pathetic - absolute PATHETIC

I despise the convenience of putting women in labor etc. I wonder how much money the doctors and hospital made off the drugs that went into forcing her body into labor when it wasn't time ?

I absoltuely DESPISE this kind of thing .........

[BenGarrett]

If it didn't place the baby's life or health in jeopardy, I'd say it's none of our business. I've never seen anyone, and I mean no one, as quick to criticize others as Buster is.

[ipscshooter]

I dont' have a problem for it if THEY paid for the extra meds required to induce labor.

As far as the question Buster posed about how much the hospital made... I doubt if they made much. I would guess, at the most, maybe $100 or so on the mark-up on the medication. Other than that, all of the costs would have been the same as any other delivery.

[Lanse couche couche]

I just hope that it didn't result in a flipper baby that will spend the rest of its life on the public dole, like most other Bears fans[]

[burniegoeasily]

I agree with you Buster. Sad. I like to see this selfcentered Dad do his parental role. Pathetic.

[BenGarrett]

ORIGINAL: ipscshooter

As far as the question Buster posed about how much the hospital made... I doubt if they made much.Â* I would guess, at the most, maybe $100 or so on the mark-up on the medication.Â* Other than that, all of the costs would have been the same as any other delivery.

You're right; it isn't much more. When our twins were born, the hospital induced labor on my wife. I don't remember the exact cost (fortunately, the insurance covered everything) but I saw the itemized bill and it actually wasn't as much as I would've expected.

Without researching this sort of thing, I would have to wonder how safe inducing labor is. They induced my wife's labor because Toby had stopped growing in the womb (he had a two-vessel umbilical cord). Shortly after her labor was induced, Rachel got Toby's cord wrapped around her neck and her heartbeat started racing, then dropped to nothing, and they had to do an emergency C-section. Fortunately everything turned out okay. They said it could've happened during normal labor, but I wondered at the time if it wasn't extra undue stress put on the babies by inducing the labor.

But I have nothing but my own opinion to back that up, and I still say if the doctors determined there would be no harm to the baby by inducing labor, it's no one else's business that she had labor induced. Besides, let's face it: Inducing labor is becoming common practice. Many OB's now will set not only a due date, they'll stick with it. After 9 months, if that time arrives and the woman is still carrying her child, labor will be induced.

[tangozulu]

Never heard of a hockey team called the Bears.............[&o]

[Buster T]

pregnancy ........ there is a reason for it, you know ? A woman's body, the development of the baby, the devliery ......... its all encoded in the woman's body.

to force it by medication for a frickn BALL GAME ? absolutely uncalled for. How careless and selfish of the parents, to place a frickn ball game above the baby's health ?

how many drugs were used to force this delivery ? how much stress to the baby and mother ? I assumed this wasn't a caesarean ?


its just pathetic ........ I remember reading about Britney Spears getting C-sections because she didn't want to ruin her figure - are you kidding me ? How we've degraded as a society, that the convenience and selfishness overrules common sense [:'(]

[Lanse couche couche]

Several years ago I remember a friend telling me about a doctor who loved to induce labor. The Doc would take a very long vacation every year. To keep from having it ruined, he would bring in every female patient whose due date was within that general time frame and induce labor beforehand. Dunno how he talked them all into doing it, or if it resulted in complications, but it just don't sound good[:-]

[MikeVT]

I know a couple who had their child induced 1 1/2 weeks early, born on Dec 30, so they could claim a dependent on their taxes. We all told them they were crazy to do so. My kids came 10 weeks early, after all that I could never be supportive to anyone who induces labor for anything other than a medical emergency.