Wife induces child labor so husband can go to Bears game

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.\nDue to give birth Monday, Pavelka's doctor told her Friday she could induce labor early. She opted for the Friday delivery.\n"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.\nAt 10:45 p.m. Friday, Mark Patrick Pavelka was born at Palos Community Hospital after close to six hours of labor.\nWhile her husband watched the Bears play the New Orleans Saints at Soldier Field on Sunday, Colleen planned to watch in the hospital with the baby wrapped in a Bears blanket -- a Christmas gift from his grandmother.\nThe couple named Mark after his father, who wore a "Monsters of the Midway" shirt during the delivery.\n"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.\nMark is the couple's second son.