Now that's a dutiful wife.
Nine months pregnant and married to a die-hard 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.
"It was very hard for me to say 'You can't go to the NFC Championship game,'" Pavelka, 28, told "FOX and Friends."
Video: Colleen Pavelka, Husband Talk to 'FOX and Friends'
"He owes me a lot," she added, referring to her husband.
Her husband, Mark Pavelka, 28, agreed.
"I'm gonna be owing her for a long time," he told "FOX and Friends."
Earlier, Colleen Pavelka, of the southwestern Chicago suburb of Homer Glen, told the Associated Press:
"I thought, how could (Mark) miss this one opportunity that he might never have again in his life?"
At 10:45 p.m. Friday, Mark Patrick Pavelka was born at Palos Community Hospital after close to six hours of labor.
While her husband watched the Bears play the New Orleans Saints at Soldier Field Sunday, Colleen watched the game in the hospital with the baby wrapped in a Bears blanket — a Christmas gift from his grandmother.
The couple named Mark after his father, who wore a "Monsters of the Midway" shirt during the delivery.
"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.
Mark is the couple's second son.
Study Vindicates Lady Drivers
Heard the one about women drivers? Don't laugh: the age-old stereotype about dangerous female drivers is shattered in a big new traffic analysis: Male drivers have a 77 percent higher risk of dying in a car accident than women, based on miles driven.
And the author of the research says he takes it to heart when he travels — his wife takes the wheel.
"I put a mitt in my mouth and ride shotgun," said David Gerard, a Carnegie Mellon University researcher who co-authored a major new U.S. road risk analysis.
The findings are from Traffic STATS, a detailed and searchable new risk analysis of road fatality statistics by Carnegie Mellon for the American Automobile Association. Plans are to make the report public later this week, but The Associated Press got an early look.
Men are more likely to die behind the wheel than women because they take more risks, speed more, drink and drive more said Anne McCartt, a research official at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, who was not part of the study, and study co-author Paul Fischbeck, a Carnegie Mellon professor of social and decision sciences.
"They do stupider things," said Fischbeck, a former military pilot who has twin toddlers and a "totally unsafe" 1974 Volkswagen Thing.
The study holds plenty of surprises, including that the highway death rate is higher for cautious 82-year-old women than for risk-taking 16-year-old boys.
Those dangerous 82-year-old women are 60 percent more likely to die on the road than a 16-year-old boy because they are so frail, said McCartt.
These elderly women have the nation's highest road death risks even when they're not driving — five times higher than the national average.
Right behind octogenarians in high risk are young male drivers, ages 16-23 with fatality rates four times higher than average.
That can be attributed to "inexperience and immaturity," McCartt said.
Fischbeck's study didn't get into specific car makes, but found larger vans to be the safest with a death rate less than half the national average for cars, and the drivers themselves played a role.
"It's a combination of they're safe and the people who drive them are dull," Fischbeck said.
So Much for Eyes On the Road
A survey released on Monday shows 81 percent of Americans do more than drive when they're behind the wheel.
More than eight of 10 people surveyed by Nationwide Mutual Insurance said they adjust the radio or music while they drive, while 73 percent talk on the phone, 68 percent eat, 19 percent send text messages and 5 percent checked their e-mail, Reuters reported.
Personal hygiene was also a big driver distraction, with 19 percent fixing their hair, 12 percent putting on makeup and 2 percent shaving while at the controls of a car.
"Clearly Americans have much to do and little time to do it, so to cope with that we've become multi-taskers," Bill Windsor, associate vice president of Safety at Nationwide, told Reuters.
"The problem with that is driving requires focus, and multi-tasking while driving puts you and your fellow drivers at risk."
Drivers in the survey also admitted to changing seats with passengers, watching a movie, painting their toenails, nursing a baby and putting in contact lenses while driving.
Younger drivers multi-task the most, the survey found, with 35 percent of 18-to-27 year olds saying they always multi-task in the car, compared to 21 percent of baby boomers.
Windsor said the consequences for young drivers are severe, with car accidents being the number one cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 27.
"The bottom line is if it can be done in the kitchen, bathroom, office or bedroom, it should not be done in the car," Windsor said.
While some U.S. jurisdictions require hands-free devices for cell phone use in cars, most of the activities listed in the survey are not illegal unless they are determined to be the cause of an accident.
The survey of 1,200 drivers between the ages of 18 and 60 found that while 83 percent believe they are safe drivers, 38 percent admitted they have driven a certain distance without any recollection of doing so.
Sandra Guile, spokeswoman for AAA in Cincinnati, said the automobile club's driving instructors have seen it all, and work hard to try to correct the bad habits.
"Imagine if you're going 55 miles an hour down the road and you spill something on your suit and you have a meeting that day — you're going to be more worried about grabbing a napkin than watching the road," Guile told Reuters. "But it just takes a split second to look away and there's an accident."
Cincinnati professor Penny Braboy said that while she never eats or makes phone calls while driving, she does answer the phone if it rings — and she admits to other distractions.
"I have put on lipstick in the car," Braboy, 55, told Reuters with a laugh. "And I might try to look for something in my purse, which I know is dangerous."
But she said her distractions have never caused an accident.
"I try to be careful," said she, getting into her sport utility vehicle, Starbucks coffee in hand.
You Deserve a Cold One, Doggie
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — After a long day hunting, there's nothing like wrapping your paw around a cold bottle of beer.
So Terrie Berenden, a pet shop owner in the southern Dutch town of Zelhem, created a beer for her Weimaraners made from beef extract and malt.
"Once a year we go to Austria to hunt with our dogs, and at the end of the day we sit on the verandah and drink a beer. So we thought, my dog also has earned it," she said.
Berenden consigned a local brewery to make and bottle the nonalcoholic beer, branded as Kwispelbier. It was introduced to the market last week and advertised it as "a beer for your best friend."
"Kwispel" is the Dutch word for wagging a tail.
The beer is fit for human consumption, Berenden said. But at euro1.65 ($2.14) a bottle, it's about four times more expensive than a Heineken.
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