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Glad to see this guy has his priorities in life straight.

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ChadTower:


--- Quote from: billf on January 22, 2007, 09:43:58 am ---Guess you missed the very last line of the article: "Mark is the couple's second son."

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Yep, must have missed that.  Poor kids/woman.  Give the tickets away and sit in the hospital room with your wife and new baby.  No football game is worth missing that.

shmokes:


--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 22, 2007, 09:30:35 am ---
Odds are that's an extremely unattractive or heavy (or both) woman with terrible self esteem.  Odds are just as good that dude does or will eventually abuse her.  That couple should have their pictures next to the "woman considers herself extremely lucky to have anyone at all and settles for abusive, startlingly self centered husband" in the domestic abuse handbook.  I feel bad for that poor woman.

I'm as big a football fan as there can be... hell I often walk with a slight limp because of it.  But this isn't healthy.  The game as "once in a lifetime experience" over the birth of their (hopefully only) child?

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I don't see the big deal.  Had she delivered two weeks earlier than she did the baby would have been considered full-term.  It's not like she opted to deliver prematurely so he wouldn't miss the game. 

I think it's perfectly understandable and reasonable.  She was due to go into labor on Monday, but it's not like the fetus was aware of the scheduled date.  It's an NFC championship game.  She didn't want her husband to stay home just in case the baby came exactly on its due date[/i] only to find that she didn't go into labor afterall and he skipped the NFC championship game for nothing.  Inducing was a good option, IMO. 

ChadTower:


Inducing is only done when necessary for a reason.  It increases several medical risks for the mother - avoidable, unnecessary risks to an already very traumatic physical event.  Inducing for convenience is tremendously self centered and very telling about the character of those involved.

Dude shouldn't have gone to the game the next day, either.  Spend that day with your wife and new child.  If he's THAT broken up over it, watch the damn game on TV from the hospital room.

billf:


--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 22, 2007, 12:39:42 pm ---
...watch the damn game on TV from the hospital room.

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Bingo.  Last time I checked, most hospital rooms have a TV.

shardian:

My wife cannot be induced - it could cause her and the baby to die. It is usually only recommended to induce when a baby is overdue because the placenta starts to shut down. Of course, people can do what they want - just like people who schedule c-sections because it is convenient.

Induction has a risk of causing uterin rupture. This pretty much guarantees at least permanent brain damage, if not death for the child. The woman has to undergo an immediate historectomy at the least.

Of course, for a woman who has no complications in pregnancy, the risk is not too high - like 1%. That is still risk though.


Anyways, the point is the guy places a frikkin football game as a higher priority than the birth of his child.  If any of you know my story, then you would understand why this so thoroughly pisses me off. I am glad some of you understand.


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