Posted on 11/23/2008 11:14:43 PM PST by Oakeshott
Eight months later, in August, the heavily pregnant Rebekah began to notice that the military base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where her husband is based, and the neighbouring town of Fayetteville were overrun with new and expectant mothers.
Nature had taken its course when the legendary 82nd Airborne Division began returning home from Iraq, along with special operations forces also based at Fort Bragg, and the result is a baby boom, which has left hospitals straining to cope not with combat casualties but bouncing newborn infants.
Last weekend Rebekah Sandelin, 32, was one of 1,000 mothers from Fort Bragg and the nearby Pope Air Force Base, who attended an event billed as the largest military "baby shower" in history, where local businesses plied the new mothers with baby clothes and other gifts.
The baby boom has been so widespread that the Womack Army Medical Centre on the base has had to send military mothers to civilian facilities, where patients have given birth in waiting rooms because of overcrowding. Births were up 50 percent in October at Fayetteville's Ob-gyn clinic. Local shops have run out of baby strollers and cots.
Mrs Sandelin, who attended the baby shower with two-month old daughter Rudy told The Sunday Telegraph that when her husband redeployed to Afghanistan earlier this year, "I went to stay with my family in Tennessee. When I came back in August I started noticing pregnant women everywhere.
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Ya think?
DUH
The town is Fayetteville, NC...
The military installation is Ft Bragg...
Next to it is Pope Air Force Base..
We need more like them!
Absolutely. God bless these kids whose fathers have protected us from harm.
This is great news. Hope more and more people decide to have numerous kids. My parents had three children and we have 8 all together. People need to more than double the birth rate IMHO.
My parents had seven. Between us seven we have produced fourteen. Of the seven, five were in the military as our dad was. So was our grandfather. Of the fourteen one has joined so far.
Proud Texans!
God Bless your large family. I think it would have been fun to have been in a large family as I was one of five. Not really big but my cousin had a family of 9 and had a good time. Although my Mother came from a family of 8 and was miserable so I guess no guarantees. lol. Hopefully a few more of the 14 join the military but if not that is ok as God has a plan for all of us.
Totally agree with this message, plus any mothers coming home in the "motherly way". We all know that life is too short. Kids are the salvation. Keep them coming, no pun intended.
My mother was one of those expectant 82nd troopers’ wives and my daughter was one of those 82nd babies born in 1974!
If that aint “All The Way” I don’t know what is!
Airborne!
They will be now.
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