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  • Surprise: Fort Campbell baby boom

    12/26/2006 7:39:57 AM PST · by SmithL · 4 replies · 289+ views
    CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Fort Campbell is getting ready for its next baby boom following the return of thousands of soldiers to the Army post after deployment in Iraq. Blanchfield Army Community Hospital is receiving nearly a dozen new expecting mothers each day, and officials expect deliveries to peak in June. The monthly average of births is 130, and the highest number the Army hospital ever delivered was 202 in October 2004. In May, however, about 180 mothers are expected to give birth with more than 250 due in June — about nine months after 20,000 soldiers with the 101st Airborne...