Now this is a woman.
 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...x.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.

Mark is the couple's second son.

I think natural child birth and being a father is much more important that any sport. I think this story is sad.

Sounds to me like this was a FAMILY DECISION. What problem could you possibly have with folks making their own decision about how to live their lives?

Agreed, stop trying to start shit

Not trying to start shit, just think that by inducing birth you increase the need for drugs and that the birth of baby is more important than anything else in life.

Please elaborate on the need for drugs in these cases.

By inducing birth, the birth comes much faster and will typically cause the mother to need epidural due to fast and more painful birth.

I don't think x54.4blue was trying to start anything. He was just stating his opinion.

OK, so? You saying the epidural is....

Not natural and a use of drugs.