Posted on 09/19/2012 5:29:28 PM PDT by STARWISE
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Soldier has baby on the frontline: Doctors sent from the UK as Army girl - who didn't even know she was pregnant - gives birth after Taliban raid
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Royal Artillery gunner who was deployed with the 12th Mechanised Brigade gives birth to baby five weeks premature
Fijian soldier had passed her pre-deployment training, including an eight-mile march and five-mile run, without realising she was pregnant
British Army handbook editor says top brass will need to 'start thinking very, very carefully' about how female soldiers are tested before deployment
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The woman had a son in Camp Bastion on Tuesday just days after the Taliban launched a deadly attack on the UKs main base in Helmand.
The baby was born five weeks premature. Last night both mother and child were said to be doing well.
A paediatric team from the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford will travel to Afghanistan in the next few days to provide care for the soldier and her son on their RAF flight home.
The birth has stunned military chiefs and led to calls for extra medical checks on women who are sent to the warzone.
Almost 200 troops have discovered they were pregnant at war since 2003 forcing commanders to send them straight back to Britain. But this is the first time a UK soldier has given birth to a baby in Afghanistan.
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She had been deployed with the 12th Mechanised Brigade since March, but two days ago complained of severe stomach pains.
To her astonishment, medics informed her that she was about to give birth.
She was in the 34th week of her pregnancy, meaning she conceived before flying to Afghanistan for her six-month tour of duty.
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Interesting question: how do we test females prior to deployment.
Answer: EPT
The idiots that are in charge of our military will never figure it out...they cann’t find their ass using both hands.. I have been PG 6 times and that woman wasn’t doing much of anything....except maybe asking one of our soldiers to help her up the hill....
That is a possibility, probably the most likely reason.
This will be my nieces third child while in the Air Force, her husband is special forces.
They have always been stationed together, which has been great.
Everyone was surprised and excited by the new baby.
I don't see how you could think that all that pushing and rummaging around was indigestion!!
Maybe someday...but at this point.... we haven't evolved enough as a species.....
Had this happen in Germany in 1980. Nobody knew she was PG. Discharges shortly therafter
Out of five kids I had one who had almost no detectable movement. I kept having to go for ultrasounds to keep track of her. The Doctor told me it was because the placenta was at the front of my belly, effectively cushioning all the kicks.
As far as not showing, I’m going to go for a combination of small baby, tilted uterus, and rock hard abs....
You’re probably right. Them’s things I never had.... :o}
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