Soldier has baby on the frontline: Doctors sent from the UK as Army girl - who didn't

[LadyEagle]

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

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

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...--gives-birth-Taliban-raid.html#ixzz26yAy22TF

 

[Squire Robertsson]

Reminds me of the tales of peasant women who worked in the fields, gave birth, then went back to work. Does this make her son "the son of the regiment"?

 

[Don]

《shaking head》Those Fijians, man, I'll tell you what...lived with a few of them for a few months in Iraq. They were tasked with security of the camp where I was at. Good people.

 

[Matt Black]

Definitely, Keith! The military equivalent of the old Byzantine porphyrogenetis.

Both Mrs B (who knows) and I find it hard to believe that women don't know they're pregnant. Perhaps more rigorous medical tests before deployment?

 

[billwald]

How does a female old enough to join the military not know when she is 8.8 months pregnant?

 

[Squire Robertsson]

As noted, the gunner in question is ethnic Fijian. Many Fijian women are not skinny minis. Take a women who is well above a size 16 (US), has no morning sickness, why should she think she's preggers.

 

[JPPT1974]

Wow that is some story! Hope that the baby is fine and healthy is all that you could wish for.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

Knowing the London Tabloids, it won't be long before we see pics of gunner and child.

 

[MNJacob]

For what it is worth, CENTCOM Modification 11, which defines US military qualifications for deployment mandate a negative pregnancy test prior to deployment. Of course, that doesn't address anything that happens after the individual deploys.

I realize that this lady is from the UK, but I would be surprized if there were not an equivalent UK reg.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

According to the article, there isn't.

For what it is worth, CENTCOM Modification 11, which defines US military qualifications for deployment mandate a negative pregnancy test prior to deployment. Of course, that doesn't address anything that happens after the individual deploys.

I realize that this lady is from the UK, but I would be surprized if there were not an equivalent UK reg.