The Blog Brigade is the place to discover what military spouses are up to around the world. Our bloggers share their twists, turns, and tips through a series of entertaining posts that are bound to leave you energized and ready to meet the challenges of military lifestyle. It’s military life from a “boots on the ground” perspective.
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Recent Posts
A Day in the Life: Surviving Deployment One Day at a Time
Kristi
While on a quick trip to Massachusetts to break up some deployment monotony, my poor baby, Jack, came down with the stomach flu. This was the first time he’d ever been sick and there were tears, heart palpitations, nausea, cold sweats, and anxiety and that was just on my end! Of course he would decide to get sick while we were miles away from his pediatrician and his daddy isn’t around to help! Why didn’t I see this coming?
After a couple hours in the emergency room, he was diagnosed with the stomach flu and we were on the next flight home with nothing but a prescription for TLC, hydration and infant Tylenol—not exactly the miracle cure I was hoping for. I’ll save the nasty details for later in this story, so I’ll just say that flying with a 10 month old baby who has a stomach virus is neither clean nor pleasant smelling.
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Expectant and New Parents: This One’s For You!
January 13, 2012 by By Robert L. Gordon III, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Military Community and Family Policy)
By Robert L. Gordon III
Military couples are resilient and strong. They have learned to adapt to challenges such as deployments and relocations, leveraging these times as opportunities for growth and exploration. But, when a couple finds out they are having a child, they confront a new set of challenges. New parents may have imagined being home to experience the first few months of their child’s life, but deployments can make that impossible.
New mothers and fathers may have imagined having their own parents close for support with their newborn, only to find themselves hundreds, if not thousands, of miles from extended family and friends. We understand the unique challenges that military parents must face, and there are resources and services in place to ensure that new parents—no matter where they are located—are empowered with the resources they need.
Your installation’s New Parent Support Program (NPSP) is designed to support military families with adapting to parenthood and to thrive. The program supports military families who are expecting a child or who have a child or children up to three years of age. The NPSP provides important benefits such as home visits by NPSP staff, supervised playgroups, parenting classes, and access to books, booklets, and other written materials on parenting.
