Marathon-running mum gives birth after race
By Gadiola Emanuel - 11:54:00 PM
Amber Miller could be forgiven for taking a long rest after completing the Chicago Marathon on Sunday but rather than resting her aching limbs, the 27-year-old spent the evening giving birth to her second child.
Miller was 39 weeks
pregnant when she started the 26.2-mile (42.195-km) race and went into
labour shortly after finishing, a spokeswoman from Central DuPage
Hospital said on Monday.
The
Chicago native had completed marathons during her previous pregnancy but
told reporters at the hospital that she had not expected to finish this
year's race.
"I was kind of
planning on running about half and maybe skipping to the end and walking
across the finish line," Miller said in a clip on the ABC News website.
She ended up alternating between running for two miles and walking
for two miles throughout the race, Miller told the Chicago Tribune.
After the race, Miller and her husband Joe settled down to eat
dinner before she started to feel contractions in the middle of the
afternoon and the couple headed straight to hospital.
Miller gave birth to her second child, June, at 10:29 p.m. on
Sunday, the spokeswoman said, adding that the baby and her mother were
both healthy.
Doctors were kept
informed of Miller's exercise plans during her pregnancy and had no
objections to her running in the marathon, the spokeswoman said.
By Roy Strom
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