Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson are notorious baseball fans. Rob recently opened up to The Zo Zone to reveal the mid-game contractions that finally sent the couple away from a Phillies-Dodgers game on August 31st. He says:
"We left around the fifth inning. They were up at that point. Even when we pulled into the parking lot she realized she was probably in the beginning stages of labor. But everybody we had spoken to at that point - we had the baby at home, so we had a midwife - but we also had an OB. And they said one of the biggest issues with women, especially with first-time pregnancies, the biggest mistake they make is that as soon as they feel the labor starting they go right to the hospital. As soon as they get to the hospital, the hospital turns them around and says go back home because you've got another 12 hours before you're going to have this baby. Otherwise you're going to sit down in a hospital bed for 12 hours. So Kaitlin said, 'I'm not going to do that. Let's just go about the day as much as we can. I'll just stay at this baseball game until it's no longer comfortable.' As the contractions starting getting closer and closer together and they started getting more aggressive ... yeah, it was like the fifth inning. Howard hit the home run and we were like, 'Let's just go. It looks like they have control of the game. It looks like they're going to win.' And then we left and she had the baby two hours later.”
Rob also explained his son’s nickname conundrum and how it was solved with the help of a favorite player:
“His name is Axel, so that doesn't necessarily lend itself to a nickname because his name is already as cool as (stuff). But we're thinking Chooch…she likes the Phillies by proxy and really only started following them when we started dating…She knew the big names. And then all of a sudden she's watching the game and like, 'Man, this guy is the star of the team.’… She also loved the fact that she thought people were booing him, and couldn't understand why they were booing him. And when I told her that his nickname was Chooch, she just like fell madly in love with him.”
Where were you when you realized you were in full labor?
Do you have a cute nickname for your little one?
Rob McElhenney Talks Utley, Howard and Phillies [The Zo Zone]
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