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PALOS HEIGHTS, Ill. — nine months pregnant and married to afervent Bears fan with tickets to Sunday’s NFC Championship Game,Colleen Pavelka didn’t want to risk going into labor during thegame against the New Orleans Saints.

Due to give birth on Monday, Pavelka’s doctor told her Fridayshe could induce labor early. She opted for the Friday delivery.

“I thought, how could [Mark] miss this one opportunity that hemight never have again in his life?” said Pavelka, 28, from thesouthwestern Chicago suburb of Homer Glen.

At 10:45 p.m. Friday, Mark Patrick Pavelka was born at PalosCommunity Hospital after close to six hours of labor.

While her husband watched the Bears play the New Orleans Saintsat Soldier Field Sunday, Colleen planned to watch in the hospitalwith the baby wrapped in a Bears blanket — a Christmas gift fromhis grandmother.

the couple named Mark after his father, who wore a “Monsters ofthe Midway” shirt during the delivery.

“If he wasn’t born by Sunday and the Bears won, I would havenamed him Rex,” after Bears quarterback Rex Grossman, joked MarkPavelka, 28.

Mark is the couple’s second son.

Copyright 2007 by the Associated Press

Woman induces labor so hubby can attend Bears playoff game!