Ahhh, so annoying that I have to log back in here everytime.
Patrice, that IS huge news. Wow! I think the benefits sound great, and as long as you are fully dedicated, know what to expect and are comfortable with it, then it sounds like a great situation for your family. Question- if you get pregnant before basic training, will you ever do the basic training or would your dh just enlist? I'm just wondering because you obviously can't do the training when you're pregnant (right?) and then after you have the baby you can't leave for 10 weeks. Unless you have a caretaker?
Do you have any idea where you'd be stationed? Hopefully you can stay somewhat close, so you are near your family. I'd be afraid of being deployed too, even if it's a small chance... especially with children I wouldn't want anything to happen to me, and I also wouldn't want to be away from them for so long! With both of you enlisting, would they make sure that at least one of you can stay home with the kids? They wouldn't send you both away, would they?
Anyway, I'm sure you've talked and thought all this through many times over so you know all the scenarios!
Laura- Sorry to hear beanie is still breech... good news though is that at 33 weeks there is still plenty of time for him to turn. Usually at 33 weeks, baby is still flipping a lot as there is still enough room, but hopefully his final flip with be head down. I actually sometimes feel hiccups up high, so I wonder if mine is still flipping around a lot, because I also feel hiccups low too. But at every one of my appts they tell me he's head down. If Beanie doesn't turn, there are things to look into to get him to turn. I know some Chiropractors practice the Webster technique and it's very effective (and less risky than the ECV). There was also a study in which 100 women past 35 weeks were told to visualize their babies turning around and in 81 of them they did, only after several total hours of practice. With no other techniques. So that's pretty amazing. I also think that by 37 weeks most babies will turn spontaneously. Just don't fear that he will stay this way and don't think negatively, because that will tense up your uterus leaving it less flexible and there will be less room for baby to turn. (And this also applies to having a easier and shorter labor... if you're fearing things and tensing your body, it goes straight to the uterus)...
Re: PE, isn't it only a concern when your BP is high? Because it is the BP that affects the health of you and the baby. If it is swelling only (which as of now it is, right?) then is that really much of a concern? And when your MW says that something might happen, what does that mean... early labor?
And glad you will be off work soon.
hope to hear from my atorney soon 
Hopefully not...I just have one problem, and I'll bet this has crossed the minds of all your bnb buddies.....I cannot help but wonder how in the world you and your dh will manage without dtd for the length of Basic Training 
Ok, seriously though, I think you'll do awesome, and the Army has a ton to offer! 
Once I finished my online work the girls both started to get restless, talking in their sleep, sleeping upside down 
, getting lost under their blankets, etc...So I stayed up cleaned the kitchen, did the dishes, ate some cheerio's (an early breakfast? 
It seems like forever but not too bad 
I am soooo excited! 
I did too 
But I had to wrack my brains to configure dates in proportion to page thickness and finally made a random guess at an inch and a half in...lol...
wacko: I know) ... The way I look at it I waited so long to enter college I feel like I have to drive myself forward--one good thing I found out that the years of security work that I performed can be used as credits to advance me through a portion of my degree 
