Thanks, honey Wife induces labor so husband can go to Bears game

[Gman]

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 miss this one opportunity that he might never have again in his life?" said Pavelka, 28, from the southwestern Chicago suburb of Homer Glen.

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

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I can't decide if this is codependent or something else, if anything. Seems to me the husband should have turned down the offer of tickets or never bought them knowing she could domino at that time, or something.

[rosesaylavee]

1. Whatever it is

that child will grow up hearing this story. Wonder how this will effect his/her self esteem?

[hlthe2b]

2. Exactly....

Good to know both his child and wive's well-being rank right below a friggin FOOTBALL game....:eyes:

Flame away sports fans... This IS shallow and undefensible.

[Connonym]

58. I once had a bad asthma attack in the middle of a Packers game

My ex asked me to wait until half time before taking me to the ER. And that was just regular season. In his defense, when I started to turn blue he relented and took me right away. Any wonder he's my ex?

[Kajsa]

60. You couldn't breathe and he asked you to "wait until halftime"?!?

What a jerk!
Little wonder he's your ex!

:grr:

[Cobalt Violet]

64. I'm glad he's your ex too.

It's stuff like that that leads me to believe this is just another cult.

[Scooter24]

3. I think it's sweet...

for his wife to give him this gift. I'm sure if it ultimately came down to being with his wife during labor or the bears game, he would chose the former. It's not fair of us to assume the later.

Thanks to modern medical science, and a loving wife, he was able to have both. :)

[malaise]

16. I agree 100% n/t

[cynatnite]

4. Nothing wrong with it...

Labor can be induced to avoid a weekend birth or conflicts with other dates. I worked L&D and inductions have been done for a wide variety of reasons. Technology has came a long way.

[Pool Hall Ace]

5. It is very sweet and thoughtful of her.

Tickets are hard to come by, and attending your team's champsionship game could be a once-in-a-lifetime event. It isn't as if she were giving birth weeks ahead of schedule.

It's refreshing to hear about a pregnant woman who acknowledges that other events are taking place besides her impending delivery.

[Cobalt Violet]

8. And the birth of your child is an everyday thing.

What are the going to name the kid....Bear.

[cynatnite]

9. You do know that parents can set the dates of the induction, right?

They can avoid weekends, someone else's birthday or a variety of other conflicts that may arise. This is not unusual and has been going on for years. It's safe and completely reasonable.

[Cobalt Violet]

13. For a stupid game is stupid.

You do know that not everybody loves sports? I hope this child hates sports and seek these selfish idiots for what they are.

[cynatnite]

14. This is about parents making a choice...

they had the option of choosing the time of their child's birth. Not all parents are that lucky. Some mom's have had to deliver at home, in cars and other places. If you asked them what they prefered they'd tell you having their baby at a hospital at the time of their choosing is far more prefereble and safe.

You're being short-sighted and judgmental over something that has been going on for years by thousands of parents.

[Cobalt Violet]

20. These so called parents are far more short sighted than I'll ever be.

I'd rather be raise by wolves.

Didn't I mention that this is my OPIONION?

[cynatnite]

22. An opinion without the benefit of reality or fact n/t

[theboss]

35. It's still not clear to me why you are so angry

I work in a hospital. Right now, there are any number of women here who have scheduled to be induced or have C-sections. It happens everyday for a lot of reasons.

[treestar]

73. I guess it's the reason that seems so frivolous here

I feel sorry for people for whom commercial sports are that important, regardless of what they do in the service of it. Just seems pathetic, to me. Whether the team wins is something you cannot control and take credit for. The teams don't even geographically represent their cities; they get the players from all over the country and even out of it.

I like to go to a professional baseball game once in a while for the fun of it, but could not imagine ordering any major life event around it. It's the perspective here that is just plain pathetic.

[theboss]

79. In general, Americans have more perspective on sports than anyone

In South America, they've had wars over soccer. In Europe, the fans try to kill opposing fans.

Here, we just paint our bodies and decorate our rec rooms with posters.

[GaYellowDawg]

84. Let me try to inform your perspective.

It's true that fans can't control a game. It's true that there are many players from different geographic areas. That doesn't cut down on the enjoyment of the sports a bit.

To make a comparison, one wouldn't have to control a conductor, nor require that the musicians were Austrian, to enjoy a Mozart concert.

For many people, this is a social activity. For many, it's a family activity. The reason I'm a sports fan is because my father is one. We went to games when I was a kid. College, not pro. I loved the spectacle, loved the excitement, but most of all, loved being with my dad. As I got a little older, my mother got more and more into it, and now I go to sports events with both of them. It's an additional bond with them.

I attended a wedding in December where the colors of the wedding were University of Georgia colors, the wedding cake had two bulldogs on it, and the couple entered the reception area to a tape that the radio play-by-play man had made for them. It was tremendously fun. Just because you can't imagine ordering a life event around sports doesn't mean it's pathetic. Lighten up, Francis.

[laundry_queen]

97. And in general, most of them are for frivolous reasons.

Doctor doesn't want to come in on a weekend...(maybe he likes football too!), women 'tired' of being pregnant and unaware of the risks of inductions, women going 1 day past their 'due date' (as if it's some sort of expiry date). There ARE risks, and elective inductions are not benign.

[mondo joe]

142. How many abortions are had for frivolous reasons?

Or do you limit your judgments to deliveries?

[Captain Hilts]

23. Wow. Are you ever bitter over nothing. Good for them.

Sports is a big help - especially in New Orleans and Washington, DC - in creating a sense of community. NPR had a story the Saints in NO last Friday. Really neat.

[Cobalt Violet]

26. And no one ever gets left out ,right?

Big help........:rofl: :rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

27. Huh? nt

[Cobalt Violet]

30. We'll all live happily ever after if we just go to the game.

Not in my story.

[Captain Hilts]

34. You live in Massachusetts. Think how the Red Sox give total strangers something...

to talk about. In Washington, for years, football was the ONLY thing that really bring blacks and whites together. That's still very much the case.

Following sports doesn't mean you don't think college sports and its athletes are corrupt, or that you support taxpayer-funded stadiums, etc. I don't. But I love the sense of community it helps create. I had no idea New Orleans was that crazy about football. The NPR piece noted that NO was one of those cities with a distinct color line, that was crossed most often in reference to football.

[Cobalt Violet]

38. I don't follow the Red Sox. I'm not a member of the cult of sports.

I really do see it as a cult. If this were posted in the sports forum, I wouldn't posted in this
thread. It's in GD.

[Hosnon]

99. No, not everybody loves sports. But this couple does. No harm was done

here and everyone is happy.

And I don't imagine that this will scar the kid for life.

[Cobalt Violet]

100. You "imagine" the kid okay. But...

You don't really know. And neither does anyone else.

[Hosnon]

102. Of course we won't "know". But I'd put my money on the kid being just fine.

In fact, he'll probably be a huge Bears fan and love telling this story.

[Cobalt Violet]

105. And I'll put mine on him being fucked up.

[theboss]

108. I was picking parlays on football games with my grandpa in fourth grade

I have a happy relationship with a girlfriend/soon to be fiance, two loving parents that I see often, a good job, multiple degrees, a large jazz collection and a pretty happy life.

I find people who aren't interested in sports to be strange, to be honest.

[Cobalt Violet]

120. My grandfather was homeless and died in a vacant lot when I was in 4th grade.

Never met him. I grew up in household where sport were sport just weren't liked. I have a so-so job, a great degree, and some not so happy days. It's a mix. And yes I am strange so your right about that.

[theboss]

133. So...maybe you should have played tennis

Or maybe you are just spewing bitterness for the sake of it.

Whatever the issue is, your anger towards what seems to be a reasonalbe (if quirky) act is completely disproportionate.

[Pool Hall Ace]

25. And, in the big scheme of things, probably not even newsworthy.

But it does give those who like to bash sports fans an opportunity to look down their noses at them.

[kikiek]

28. I know of one done so they could close on their house on a certain date. Mom is willing why not?

[moc]

83. Whether it's safe is an issue still under debate (m)

Inductions for medical reasons are one thing. Inductions for purely non-medical are another thing altogether. There are risks with interfering with Mother Nature and don't let anyone try to convince you otherwise. It's one of the reasons the March of Dimes has undertaken a campaign to discourage inductions for non-medical reasons.

[theboss]

17. Probably Ditka or Samurai ....or Sweetness if it's a girl

This does not strike me the least bit unusual. Of course, I'm from Pittsburgh.

[Bill McBlueState]

31. Sweetness ... that's good!

And I'm sure it's not an uncommon choice for the daughters of Bears fans. :rofl:

[LizW]

6. Not so awful.

She wanted him to be there, and she made it happen.

I was in court once with a lawyer whose wife was at the hospital in active labor. She kept calling him on the cell phone, and he kept saying "yeah, I'll be there in a little while, honey." Finally, the doctor got on the phone and told him they were taking her in for an emergency c-section, and if he wanted to see the baby born he better get there RIGHT NOW. The guy STILL didn't leave. And we weren't even in court yet. We were just waiting around to see the judge for a pre-trial conference.

[Name removed]

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[KharmaTrain]

10. My Wife Almost The Same Thing...

Well...not quite induced...in fact, she went into labor two weeks early...right in the middle of a Bears game!!! This was 1987...and during the football strike...the infamous "Spare Bears"...but still it was "Da Bears" and the world came to a total stop...except for my son. LOL.

We called the OB...he was watching the game and he wasn't too happy, but thus is nature...unfortunately my son was on his own schedule and couldn't wait...my wife gave birth before the OB got to the hospital...but I did get charged his usual delivery fee nonetheless. LOL.

[ellacott]

11. There is such intolerance on this board

I would have never thought that a gathering place forliberals would be so intolerant.

As was posted, other people schedule inducement for a variety of reasons. There's nothing at all wrong with compromise in a marriage if this is what they agree on.

[Cobalt Violet]

15. Sports fans are so oppressed!

Are sports people so special that they should be immune from criticism?

[theboss]

37. Sports people?

You once got picked on by a hockey player at a party, didn't you?

[Cobalt Violet]

40. Um...... No... I'm not a member of the sports cult.

I don't go to games or related parties. I try to keep sport as out of my life as possible.

[mondo joe]

89. So this is really about your sportsophobia.

It must be.

I know less about sports than any other living man. I've never been to a game, known a score or been to a sports party.

And yet I don't care if others do.

You have the same weird reaction to sports that homophobes have to gays.

[Cobalt Violet]

94. I don't think it's a phobia. Just a repulsion.

I so hate sweat pants.

[mondo joe]

95. That's what homophobes say too.

What a funny thing to have a phobia about.

[Cobalt Violet]

104. Glad your amused.

Nice one about the homophobes. I don't know what one thing has to do with another.

[mondo joe]

110. Irrational repulsion is the common thread.

I don't care for black olives. So I don't eat them. I don't have fits over others doing it - I don't want to ban olives or have people killed over them.

THAT is a normal response.

The repulsion you have over sports is akin to homophobia in its excessive and irrational nature.

[Irreverend IX]

53. Can you say tempest in a teapot?

Geez, take a pill. Who gives a crap if these people want to have their kid a few days early.

[Cobalt Violet]

56. Your telling me to "take a pill" is pretty offensive.

Why do you care what my opionion is? Does it give you the right to play doctor?

[mondo joe]

96. What gives you the right to play doctor with this couple?

Why do you care what their decision is?

[CTyankee]

21. It would never OCCUR to me to induce labor for this reason!

Of course, labor is induced for a variety of reasons! My daughter, expecting her third child, with her hospital far enough away and a close call with her second in getting to the hospital in time, decided to induce. It had nothing to do with anybody's sports pastime. It had to do with her and her baby's personal safety, plus her husband's sanity, so she did not risk giving birth in the car!

Dear god, people...

[Bassic]

29. the Lounge is your friend.

It's a lot less strung out than this place, if you need a break.

[skygazer]

125. Oh, thanks a lot

Just what the Lounge needs! :eyes:

[Bill McBlueState]

33. I don't know if "intolerance" is the right word

That makes it sound like the objectors are on the wrong side of some important social issue. Instead, they're just shooting off at the keyboard to get attention. :)

[Cobalt Violet]

42. There is a Sports forum.

For those who don't want to be exposed to different opinions.

[Bill McBlueState]

44. I like to be exposed to different opinions.

Calls for the child in question to grow up and murder her parents are actually pretty funny, so I like being exposed to your opinion on this issue. In the sports forum, we wouldn't get this kind of response.

[ellacott]

46. I don't think it means someone is on the wrong side of an issue

I interpret it to mean that someone is jugdemental of another's choice. I could be wrong. Maybe it is just shooting off to get attention.

btw, I'm also a long suffering Browns fan. :) I think someone would want to be scheduled DURING a Browns game.
:sarcasm:

[treestar]

77. It's not intolerance, no one is saying that it should be illegal

Being liberal and tolerant doesn't mean you are brain-dead to what other people do.

This is pathetic. What a frivolous "choice." This guy needs to get a life if that game is that damn important to him - ought to be a wake-up call to him that his values are out of order. Liberal people have values too. They don't force them on others, but it doesn't mean they don't have them and don't say anything to comment if they notice other people having evil values. Or, as in this case, just plain pathetic.

[PVnRT]

129. Ummm....the wife made the decision

Though I'm sure it's the man's fault somehow :eyes:

[Hosnon]

145. Of course it is. Because I'm sure he would have bailed on his pregnant

wife if she couldn't/wouldn't have induced labor. After all, men can't resist sports.

Did I get warped into that "other" discussion board? What the hell is going on?

[xultar]

103. TRUE DAT!

[tanyev]

12. Thank God I married a man who doesn't care about sports.

[Captain Hilts]

18. Cool - she probably wanted to watch the game too. nt

[theboss]

19. Everyone schedules C-Sections now anyway

What is the difference? I know dozens of women who have schedule C-sections for Monday so their 12 weeks would end on a Friday.

[johnnie]

24. Good thing it wasn't for American Idol auditions

At least it was for a sporting event.

[Philosoraptor]

32. Anything to avoid another beating I guess.

[GaYellowDawg]

66. Yes, because all football fans beat their wives.

Love the stereotyping. Wonderful liberal values there. :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[Captain Hilts]

109. Tweeeeet! Flag on the play. Fifteen yards and loss of down.

That wife-beating/superbowl study was debunked.

[theboss]

116. Maybe she is the big fan

No...that's impossible...She's a woman...she like Oprah!!!

Honestly, if you had to ask me who was more intolertant these days (liberals or conservatives), I may have a hard time answering.

[PVnRT]

130. Of course women don't like sports

The true, liberated, independent woman apparently likes cooking, cleaning, sewing and tearjerker movies. They CAN NOT like sports.

[Bill McBlueState]

36. thankfully, our daughter will be born outside of football season

My wife's a Browns fan, and no daughter of mine is going to have her birth re-scheduled just so we can see the Browns stink it up yet again.

That would be so embarrassing in a few years: "Sweetie, you were born on a Saturday because Mommy had to watch Braylon Edwards drop another half-dozen passes on Sunday." :eyes:

[jChicago]

39. Two joyous events accommodated perfectly

I think it makes it all the more special -- family with new baby can watch game together -- hubby is happy, wife is happy -- believe you me, if I were in the same situation, I would do the same.

[Cobalt Violet]

52. Are they equally joyous?

[theboss]

62. Of the 50 greatest moments in my life, I would argue that six involve the Steelers

And three involve the Penguins.

[Bill McBlueState]

76. Six?

If you're over 40, I'd bet that they're the Immaculate Reception and the five Super Bowls. Am I right? :)

[theboss]

82. I'm 33.....

Too young for the Immaculate Reception.

However, one of my earliest childhood memories is of the Super Bowl against the Cowboys in January of 1979.

I had just turned five and was wearing a Steeler sweatsuit. I remember Franco making that long run for a TD and my parents jumping up and down and screaming "Touchdown! Touchdown! Touchdown!" and me joining in, even though I had no idea what happened. Then Gerela slips on the kickoff and kicks it right to Randy White who fumbles. My parents are jumping up and down and screaming "Fumble! Fumble! Fumble!" and I'm running around like a maniac. I think I fell asleep shortly thereafter.

Anyway, they are:

1. AFC Championship game last year. Just beat up the Broncos to get a huge monkey off our back.
2. Super Bowl last year. The game was too "ugly" and "controversial" to be #1, but it was the first Super Bowl win of my adult life so I will take it.
3. '95 AFC title game. I was in college, drunk, and my team was finally going back to the Super Bowl.
4. Random game in '97 versus the Redskins. First game I attended as an "adult." A buddy and I snuck a flask of bourbon in and the Steelers just crushed the Skins on a beautiful September day.
5. Meeting Art Rooney, Sr in the Steelers office in the early 80s on a visit with my dad. We took our picture next to the 4 trophies with him.

Also rans:
'05 Playoff win against the Jets. The ultimate "How did that happen?" game.
'89 playoff win against the Broncos.
Last game at Three Rivers in '03.
Bradshaw's last game against Jets in, I think, '83.
Going to training camp and sitting next to Rocky Blier's wife in the late 70s.

[Odin2005]

41. I really don't see the problem with this.

Some people REALLY need to lighten up...

[nuxvomica]

43. Not clear to me which opportunity she feared he would miss

The birth of the child or the football game. I'm glad she did it cuz at least her husband wouldn't be distracted during this important event in their lives, by which I mean the birth. I think that whatever arrangements they've made are their own business but why the hell tell the press about it!? Did they actually expect to get some praise for this?

[Cobalt Violet]

45. Apparently they're getting plenty of praise on this board.

But I guess it's a sport cult thing I'll never get.

[Name removed]

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[nuxvomica]

57. You assume a lot about their marriage, as do their detractors

I just think this never should've been reported as news, period. They should've kept it as their own business, worthy neither of praise nor harsh criticism cuz we just plain don't know these people well enough to make a judgment.

[nuxvomica]

48. I never got it either

I just hope when the kids get older they don't have other milestone events that conflict with a Bears game, like school plays, graduations, weddings, etc.

[theboss]

50. No one in Chicago would schedule something in conflict with the Bears

So, it's a moot point.

For the record, I once watched a Penn State game on a handheld tv during a wedding reception.

[nuxvomica]

54. And I onced watched the Travers during one

But not during the actual ceremony, which was thankfully scheduled much earlier. I concede that you are probably right about no one in Chicago creating scheduling conflicts with Bears games.

[AllegroRondo]

49. Did they name the new son "Ditka"?

[Cobalt Violet]

51. No it's name is Pigskin.

[WinkyDink]

55. Okay, I once skipped a wedding for a football game, but that was pre-VCR days.

And it was my Alma Mater, but I can sorta understand this couple.
But not 100%. Unless Mom would've preferred a C-section no matter when.

[theboss]

61. Beat this: I once limited my intake of painkillers after surgery in order to be awake for a game

The game was on at 7:30. I had a six-hour surgery at 8 AM. I should have been unconscious for the next 24 hours, but I basically told the docs that I had to be awake at 7:30 to watch the game. Once it was safely out of hand, I allowed them to up the morphine again.

Oh to be 16 and completely out of my mind again....

[DerekG]

59. Hopefully, this poor child will run away to the circus

Already he/she has been cursed with a man-child for a father--who would just as soon watch a pack of neanderthals throw a lil' bally around a field than experience the miracle of child-birth--and a door-mat for a mother who is daft to the fact that any decent, caring man would liken her pregnant self to the goddess Sophia.

"Run away, oh human child, to the waters and the wild..."

[GaYellowDawg]

69. I bet the child goes to Bears games with Dad.

And I'll bet that the kid gets a kick out of the story, too. If I'd learned that my mother induced labor so my dad wouldn't miss a championship game, I'd love it. I'd have bragging rights at the tailgate.

"man-child." "neanderthals throw a lil' bally around a field." You know, there are a lot of people who take joy from sports, and there are many people for whom sports are a fantastic family bonding experience. No need for all the condescension IMO.

[theboss]

70. I know a woman who delayed Chemo to attend an Eagles' playoff game

Granted, she confirmed with her doctor that there was no risk, but she didn't want to be too weak to attend the game.

[DerekG]

122. I enjoy the occasional game of lacrosse--but that's irrelevant

If I learned my blessed mother induced labor because daddy couldn't divest himself from a low form of entertainment, I would not think him a man (and there would be much to bolster this supposition, as I'd be living with the buffoon).

Real men hold sacred their women and children. Not bally-games.


"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways." --1 Corinthians 13: 11

[GaYellowDawg]

141. A few points:

1. If your mother and father enjoyed it that much, you would have been raised to enjoy the "low form of entertainment," and more than likely, you would have had tickets to the game yourself, and you'd brag about it at the pregame tailgate while painting your belly orange. Children usually follow their parents' examples.

2. Your assumption that it was solely the father's choice is not necessarily true. Sounded to me like "blessed mother" was fully involved in the decision.

3. Real men don't play lacrosse.

4. "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways." --1 Corinthians 13: 11

Yeah, the same guy also treated sex as something inherently bad, and said that women must submit to their husbands, and slaves to their masters.

[GaYellowDawg]

63. LOL at the detractors...

Every single one of you would fully support this woman's decision had she decided to terminate the pregnancy. She induces labor so that her husband can be at the birth and at the football game, and you get all indignant. You have no more right to condemn her decision in this matter than you would if she were having an abortion.

I imagine that the majority of the indignation comes from the event that she induced labor to miss. Had she induced labor so that her husband could attend an anti-war rally, I imagine that all of you who are complaining would be applauding. What that couple considers to be important is their business, so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

If I was the husband, I would have sold the tickets and Tivo'd the game if my wife went into labor. I'm a diehard college football fanatic, but I'd sell national championship tickets in a cold heartbeat under the circumstances. In fact, I don't think I would even remember that there was a game after holding my newborn. But that's me. If this couple did something that made them happy, so what?

[Cobalt Violet]

68. If it's just their business why go to SportsIllustrated?

Don't they know not everyone is in the cult? Apparently not. They chose not to keep it a private matter.

[GaYellowDawg]

71. Why not?

It's an entertaining story. Just because the decision gets made public doesn't mean it wasn't theirs to make. And as for your "cult" analogy, you're the one who sounds more like a firebreathing fundamentalist than anyone else in the thread. You hope the child grows up to kill its parents? Thanks a lot, Pat Robertson.

[cynatnite]

72. The article didn't say the couple came to them...

whether they went public or not is their choice.

[treestar]

74. Your first paragraph is amazing

You would equate those two things?

Once you decide to have the child, a whole new set of decisions opens up. You're just ignoring that.

[GaYellowDawg]

81. Actually, no.

I'd consider abortion a hell of a lot worse than inducing labor. My point, however, was that if you support a woman's right to choose whether or not to have a child in the first place, how is it consistent to condemn parents for taking an available option for childbirth?

[mondo joe]

117. B U L L S H I T. You respect personal choice over a person's own body or you

don't.

[theboss]

65. I still argue that Steeler fans are crazier

Woman induced to watch Steelers' Super Bowl
http://kdka.com/local/local_story_030192813.html

Meet Little Ben...born at halftime of the AFC Championship game last year:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/news/s_458491.html

[terisan]

67. There are Risks in Inducing Labor

Just because technology allows it and a lot of people do it, doesn't make it wise or safe for mother or child.


http://www.webmd.com/content/article/128/117185?src=RSS_PUBLIC


http://www.obgyn.net/pregnancy-birth/?page=/news/inducing_labor_increases_preterm_risk

[cynatnite]

78. There are risks in natural labor as well...

Many doctors offer that option to parents if it's safe to do so. I was offered that with my son, my oldest daughter was offered that with her first. I decided against it and my daughter took it. She wanted to pick her daughter's b-day.

I should have been offered that option with my first. I was two weeks overdue, retaining water and had blood pressure problems. I was a stupid 18 year old with an idiot doctor at the time and didn't know any better. If I had been offered that option I would have been induced at least a week earlier.

[terisan]

127. You are describing a good Medical reason for yourself

I also had induced labor for a medical reason. In those cases the risk of waiting should be greater than the risk of induction. It is the non-medical reasons that are being questioned. The articles which I referenced talk about these.

Many physicians are in private practice and offer non-medically based induced labor for their own scheduling reasons or to please their customers. One article states that physicians don't always inform them of the risks.

You seemed to have had a bad experience with a physician who did not provide you with the facts you needed to make an informed choice. I think that many of the people today who are having induced labor may not know the risks; their physicians may not be informing them, or their physicians may not be up-to-date on the latest research.

[seaglass]

80. I don't think the choice was whether to be induced or not, but rather WHEN to be

induced.

My son was late, I was induced - no choice about it.

I don't have any problem with the woman deciding when to be induced as long as her doctor was in agreement.

Typical devoted fan story.

[CatWoman]

75. Bear fans/fanatics are SCARY!!

:scared:

http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=6203&aid=

[demrabble]

85. Risk?

"Colleen Pavelka didn't want to risk going into labor during the game against the New Orleans Saints."

Going into labor is always a risk.

But what is the "risk" of going into labor during the game?

The "risk" must be that her louse of a husband would not be at her side during the birth of their child -- but would instead be at the game.

This husband sounds to me like a real jerk -- he would rather be at a game than at the side of his wife while she gives birth.

In related news, the cable channel f/x is showing "The Stepford Wives".

[cynatnite]

87. Sounds to me like they chose to have their child before the game

I never read any of that. This is not an unusual thing. Mom's have been induced for years for a wide variety of reasons including convenience.

[demrabble]

88. HE Could Have Chosen

He certainly could have chosen to forego going to some stupid football game and "risk" his wife going into natural labor when the game was being played.

Instead, he must have made it clear that he was going to go to the game.

I'm not sure "they" decided -- it sounds to me more like he decided what he wanted and what he was going to do, and she chose the one thing that could ensure that they would be together when their child was born.

He still sounds like a self-centered jerk to me.

[cynatnite]

92. You're making assumptions that's no where clear in this article...

He probably would forgo the football game if his wife had gone to labor, but when they saw they could avoid that possibility they opted for induction. What is the big deal?

[mondo joe]

124. What happened to a choice "between a woman and her physician"?

Or do you not think women have a right to choose?

[Marnieworld]

86. I think that this was a wonderful act of love on her part

I am a football fan myself and if I had tickets to see my favorite team in an NFC championship game it would be a once in a lifetime experience. I think it shows how much she loves him to not deny him this. There's nothing wrong with the freedom that induction can give people. I say Yay!

[mod mom]

90. I was induced so my perinatologist could spend Halloween with his kids.

It's up to the doctor not patient.

[GaYellowDawg]

93. A friend of mine had her labor induced for a similar reason

Her OBGYN was going on vacation and she wanted to have that particular doctor present at her childbirth rather than another, so she had her labor induced the day before her doc left for vacation.

[mod mom]

I was induced so my perinatologist could spend Halloween with his kids.

It's up to the doctor not patient.

[mod mom]

91. I was induced so my perinatologist could spend Halloween with his kids.

It's up to the doctor not patient.

[cynatnite]

98. I would do what this wife did...

I don't like football, Nascar, baseball and most others. I'll watch a little Olympics, but that's it.

This spring my hubby has passes to go to the pit with a buddy who is friends with several of the drivers. Now, if I were pregnant and due about that time I would induce early if it's safe to do so. I want my hubby to be there. He loves Nascar and this is an opportunity that doesn't come by very often given how his job keeps him away from home. I want this for him.

Does that make me a bad person?

Keep in mind, folks, this induction insures one thing. Both parents are there for the birth of their child.

[theboss]

101. Note to all you progressives who apparently live in 1951: Women like Football!!!

Honest to God, in reading this thread, it just hit me: Progressive people apparently have the most antiquated view of male/female relationships of all.

Maybe it's because I am from the Rust Belt, but I know some radical female sports fans.

One of my most vivid college memories was walking across campus in a stupor following the 1994 AFC Championship game (against the Chargers). One of my best friends - a woman - was with me. We went back to her apartment, ordered pizza, and nursed our hangovers and heartache for the next five hours, because we simply could not face the world at that point.

My girlfriend wears her Donovan McNabb jersey every Sunday. Her pink Eagles cap is standard attire in her "casual" uniform. She is completely unreasonable at the Linc, and is probably going to get kicked out one day for punching a Cowboys' fan. I love her for that. (Even though I sort of hate the Eagles).

Like I said, I know a woman who changed her chemo appointments to best match the Steelers' schedule. She is clearly nuts but no man forced her to do this.

It's the age of Title IX, my fellow progressives. Women like to watch sports, and I like to watch Makeover shows.

Get your head out of the 50s.

[GaYellowDawg]

106. LOL!! Best response in the thread!

Well done. Very well done.

[Captain Hilts]

111. THANK YOU! Women DO like football...someone tell the advertisers and CobaltV. nt

[RamboLiberal]

118. Well Done from a Female Steelers Fan

Dating back to the 70's Team of the Decade run! And from the Steel City where male and female live and die with the fate of the Steelers each football Sunday or Monday or Thursday or Saturday!

[Marnieworld]

119. Hell yeah!

See my post #99. I keep waiting for the commercials during games to figure this out. Watch any games on TV and you always see die-hard women in the stands decked out and rooting for their lives. Yet the commercials are all about men wanting bikinis with their beer and women talking to them during the game. I'm not saying that they should start showing Tampax and Monistat ads during Monday night football but it is time that America wakes up to the idea that women watch sports too. Not to please their men or in protest but for pleasure like anyone else.

That woman in the OP loves her man as he is and I see nothing codependent or wrong about it. Hell I'd probably induce a week earlier to go to the game too!

:D

[On the Road]

107. For That Matter,

it was inconsiderate of the Virgin Mary to deliver Jesus right at the beginning of the NFL playoffs. If she had been considerate, she would have held him in until the weekend between the championship games and the Super Bowl.

:smoke:

[MacGregor]

123. But thank goodness she delivered around college bowl game season. *g*

So sayeth this female, liberal football fan who herself spent an embarssing sum just to see my alma mater lose the national championship game and is thereby totally unfazed by the decision of the mother in this story.

[LeftyMom]

112. Labor induction is riskier for mother and child, and generally hurts more than normal labor

Those people are idiots for doing it, and their doctor is a bigger idiot for allowing it.

[cynatnite]

121. Completely untrue and irresponsible....

There are valid reasons for inducing labor and some of those do involve the safety of the mother and child. Water breaking, high blood pressure, infection and diabetes just to name a few.

As with ANY labor and delivery, yes there are risks. If the contractions are too strong the doctor will sometimes either slow or stop the medicine. Sometimes the medicine doesn't even work at all.

While pregnancy and delivery does have risk, it is far safer than it ever was. That's why women have far more options with their babies than they ever did which includes picking the day for the birth of their child.

[LeftyMom]

128. But this is a conveneince induction for an absolutely specious reason

The increased risk involved isn't offset by other risks being avoided.

[mondo joe]

132. A woman has a right to make choices about her own body.

Remember?

[LeftyMom]

136. But a doctor shouldn't cooperate with needlessly risky ones. nt

[mondo joe]

137. You're assuming the physician didn't consider the risk.

There can be numerous reasons to induce labor, and since you don't know anything about her medical background - but the physician does - you might consider respecting her choice.

[Gormy Cuss]

143. Yes. She can choose to drink a fifth and shoot up every day of her pregnancy too.

That doesn't mean that society should encourage such behavior. Would I support a law saying that this woman wasn't allowed to induce labor for an idiotic reason? No. Do I think we have been invited to comment on her choice by this news article? Yes.

[cynatnite]

138. It's not our place to judge the reasons for doing so...

This has been going on a long time and the choice has been made by thousands of women. It's their right whether to remain pregnant or not no matter the reasoning behind it.

[Gormy Cuss]

126. I'm stunned that a doctor would do this for an effin' sports event.

As you pointed out, it's not risk free even if the risk is relatively low. A championship pro football game is more important than the natural birth of a child? I just don't get it. Why not send the hubby to the game with a cellphone and take your chances? I've known very few women who went into labor on their due dates anyway.

[LeftyMom]

131. And first labors are usually long anyhow.

There would have been time in mine to fly to another city, watch another game, hit the sports bar, get stuck in traffic, fly home and still be in time for the good part.

[FastHorizon]

113. Go Bears n/t.

[mondo joe]

114. If it upsets you that she decided to induce, pretend she instead decided to abort.

Then you might get a clue about respecting personal decisions.

[Pithlet]

140. I am as pro-choice as it is possible to be, and I think this couple are morons.

For one thing, inducing labor in and of itself adds risk on top of the normal risks of giving birth. Unless there's a medical condition to warrant having an induction, it is putting unnecessary additional risk onto both the baby AND the mother. They were further endangering her as well, so your abortion analogy doesn't completely fit.

[mondo joe]

144. Isn't a woman's medical care HER choice?

Isn't it her body?

[lumberjack_jeff]

115. It strikes me that the doctor didn't have to risk missing the game either. n/t

[Pithlet]

134. My husband and I both love sports, and we never would have done anything so boneheaded.

And before fellow sports fans or "personal choice advocates" flame me into oblivion, I don't think it should be illegal. But I sure am going to call them out on their insanely warped sense of priorities. Studies have shown that elective induction raises the risk of C-sections. My own ob won't perform them unless there is a medical need.

[ContraBass Black]

135. This is a fluff piece.

[cynatnite]

139. This woman didn't want to be pregnant any longer...

For as much as progressives go on about forced pregnancies why isn't this okay? Why is her reason any more or less valid than when a woman chooses abortion? I met a woman once who had an abortion because she worried about her figure. Stupid, I thought, but still HER CHOICE. And abortion carries physical risk.

Come on, people. Think!

[Moderator]

146. locking...

This is flamebait.