CHICAGO - A pregnant suburban Chicago woman felt
contractions a few minutes after finishing the Chicago Marathon and
gave birth hours later to a baby daughter.
Amber Miller was nearly 39 weeks pregnant when she started the
26.2 mile race on Sunday morning. The DuPage County woman tells The
Daily Herald in a telephone interview from
her hospital bed that her doctor allowed her to run half the race
and walk half the race.
Miller says she felt contractions after finishing at 6 hours and
25 minutes. When the contractions became regular she stopped to get
a sandwich and then went to the hospital.
Her baby girl June was
born at 10:29 p.m. weighing 7 pounds, 13 ounces.
Miller says she's happy but calls Sunday "the longest day of my
life."
(Information from: Daily Herald, http://www.dailyherald.com)
