Woman Takes Bar Exam While in Labor, Delivers Baby Right After

The bar exam was inconveniently scheduled, but a Northwestern Law alumna sucked it up to ensure that she was admitted to the Illinois bar. She was in active labor during the exam and gave birth two hours after completing it:

Before the start of the afternoon session on day two (Wednesday) of the Illinois bar exam, the very pregnant MBE mentioned to the proctors the possibility that she might give birth during the test. She asked if she could leave early in the event that she went into labor; they agreed.

So Mother Bar Exam sat down for the afternoon session of the Multistate Bar Exam (“MBE”). Not long after, she started going into labor — not a little discomfort, but full-on labor.[...]

Upon completing the exam, Mother Bar Exam notified the proctors that she was done and needed to leave, seeing as she was, you know, in the middle of giving birth and all. Normally candidates are not allowed to leave the room early, but in this case the proctors accommodated her (especially since she had mentioned the issue to them beforehand).

One proctor was even nice enough to carry MBE’s bag as she walked over to Prentice Women’s Hospital at Northwestern — conveniently located across the street from the testing site. Shortly before 6 p.m., Mother Bar Exam gave birth to a healthy baby boy, via Caesarean section.


Link -via Glenn Reynolds | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user nagobe used under Creative Commons license

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Can we predict that the child will eventually become a lawyer? "You will go to law school, you will pass the bar, and you will be a lawyer." She proceeds to tell one variant of the "I took and passed the bar while in labor, two hours before I gave birth to YOU" story. And how about this: "No, you may not go to ___ State or any 'state' school."
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