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| George K | Jul 30 2011, 06:45 PM Post #1 |
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Finally
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http://abovethelaw.com/2011/07/outstanding-bar-performance-pregnant-woman-takes-bar-exam-while-in-labor-delivers-baby-right-after/ Pregnant Woman Takes Bar Exam While in Labor, Delivers Baby Right After! We thought we had a winner for most gutsy bar exam performance of July 2011. On Thursday, a woman taking the New Jersey bar exam passed out during the test — then picked herself up off the floor, and went right back to typing. That’s impressive — but we may have spoken too soon. Here’s a labor-intensive story that tops it. “A friend of mine went into labor while taking the Illinois bar exam,” a tipster told us. “She calmly finished, went to the hospital, and had her baby an hour or two later. Girl’s a real trooper.” “A certain Northwestern Law alumna went into labor during the second day of the Illinois bar,” said a second source. “She finished the exam and had her baby, her first, at 5:58 p.m. I think that is worth noting.” You better believe it’s worth noting. If ever there was a baby immaculately conceived by a lawgiver, this might be the one. We have all the details — including a picture of the Bar Exam Baby, whom we’ll nickname “Baby Bar”…. We’ve confirmed the story with multiple friends of the new mother, by email and by phone. We’ll refer to the mother in this story as “Mother Bar Exam” or “MBE.” Contrary to the reader comments posted on our story about the bar exam fainter, MBE’s water didn’t break in the middle of the test, nor did she take the exam sitting on the floor. But she was in active labor throughout much of the afternoon session on Wednesday, and she gave birth less than two hours after leaving the test. |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 30 2011, 06:46 PM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Wow. Talk about calm under pressure. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jon-nyc | Jul 31 2011, 12:26 AM Post #3 |
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Cheers
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Wow. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| apple | Jul 31 2011, 03:15 AM Post #4 |
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one of the angels
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i could do that |
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| Axtremus | Jul 31 2011, 03:26 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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As incredulous as the story may sound, I believe you. I really do. I also believe that one or two of my family elders could have done that in their youth. There are really people that tough, that determined. |
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| RosemaryTwo | Jul 31 2011, 05:07 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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If you don't finish the bar exam, you have to wait 3 - 6 months to take it again (in many states anyway). There is so much information to retain (federal and state law in dozens of topics) that you have to study constantly for a month before the exam and up until the minute you sit down to take it. Every bit of your brain is saturated. I can envision the woman weighing the pain of labor against the pain of a second bar prep. If my labor pains were manageable, and the hospital were close by, I would have made the same decision. I would go to great lengths to avoid taking that exam twice. |
| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| apple | Jul 31 2011, 06:06 AM Post #7 |
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one of the angels
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in the book "everything you wanted to know about pregnancy' or something like that.. it said that everyone goes to hospital too early.. So after my water broke, i went to bed until 6 AM, woke my husband and said "We have to go.. Son#1 was born 70 minutes later. hee hee. |
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| brenda | Jul 31 2011, 01:09 PM Post #8 |
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Indeed. Labor can start may hours before the birth, as in ten hours or more. If her labor had just begun, she had time. It would sure make for a major distraction though!
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