One Of The Signs You’re Obsessed

January 22, 2007 on 4:53 am | In Worldview/Life, News, Sports/Fitness |

“Wife induces labor so husband can go to Bears game”

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.

To be fair, as long as this was safe for the baby and as long as the parents were both okay with it, I’d be hard pressed to call this “wrong.” I may not understand it or much like it, but I’m not sure there’s a moral highground to take, so I don’t want to seem like I’m criticizing these people on those grounds. That said…what the hell?

I have my passions– perhaps obsessions– but I’m not sure I’d work having a child around those as opposed to working my passions around this new life entering the world. For all I know, this couple are really balanced in their lives and the father is only like this because of the playoffs, but honestly…I just don’t get it. It baffles me. But to each their own, eh?