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Pregnancy in the Army: 10 female soldiers sent back home to have babies

10 pregnant female British soldiers have been sent back home from operations during the past six months, though it’s unclear how many of the 10 became pregnant after being sent to war in Afghanistan.

Despite having no private bedrooms, the MoD, (Ministry of Defence) is likely to investigate whether breaches of sexual conduct rules occurred, the rule of a diverse and mixed sex British Army is, ‘no-touching’.

The MoD said, “It is not an offence for a Servicewoman to be pregnant,”

“But there is a code of conduct and it is to do with anything that would damage operational effectiveness.”

A spokesman added: “If women become or discover they are pregnant on operations, they are returned to the UK at the first opportunity.”

Lieutenant Colonel Robin Matthews, a former Army commander told the Sunday Mirror: “Together, both servicemen and women face an uncertain future and, as those bonds of war strengthen, inevitably relationships will develop.”

About 700 female soldiers make up around nine per cent of the British Army in Afghanistan.

The French Army has a far more relaxed view on sex: ”The basic rule is that if the service does not suffer, then sex is a private question,” said Maj. Henri Dumont, a spokesman for the Foreign Legion.

But even the French military can be shaken by certain forms of sex. In 1996, in Alsace, a 46-year-old noncommissioned officer in the military police and his wife were found to be performing public sex shows, sometimes filmed, in the bars of the town of Neuf-Brisach. A judicial inquiry revealed that the the couple’s exhibitionism had been delighting locals for several years and was well known to the military police.

The offending officer was briefly jailed. Other members of the military police unit were either transferred or took early retirement.

         

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Soldier hides baby in barracks

A female soldier, 20, who hid her pregnancy has given birth to a baby girl inside her barracks, reportedly delivering the baby herself.

The baby was discovered by another soldier who heard her wailing at Abingdon Barracks in Oxfordshire.

Both the mother and her baby are now being cared for in hospital in Oxford, the Ministry of Defence confirmed.

The Sun reported that the woman continued to participate in exercises and went to the gym in loose clothes during her pregnancy.

An MoD spokesman said: “We can confirm that a baby was born in military accommodation, in Abingdon, on Friday. Both mother and baby are being cared for in hospital.

“We can confirm that the mother is a serving soldier and all welfare needs of both mother and child are being addressed.”

The child is thought to be the first baby born at a British Army barracks.

There are around 187,000 members of the British Armed Forces, of whom about 17,620 are female.

Of those women, 3,760 are officers, according to UK defence statistics for 2008. Female military personnel are entitled to 26 weeks of paid maternity leave.