Pregnancy and payback/deployment

[cobernavy]

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What happens if you are pregnant and are deployed? Is your deployment delayed or do they take you as soon as you deliver? What happens if you are in regular payback time, do you have to stay longer to make up for maternity leave?

 

[Ex-44E3A]

Here's the AF answer from when I was in:

They may have changed it, but it used to be that you were bumped from your deployment slot and one of your coworkers had to pick up your slack. AEF assignments are fairly static, and changing someone to another rotation can be difficult (and IIRC has to be done pretty far up the command chain).

I had one coworker who turned up pregnant every time her AEF cycle came around... she never did get deployed (all the rest of us went instead... it created a lot of resentment).

If you end up pregnant while deployed, you get a ticket home. I saw women do this out in the desert then promptly get an abortion once back in CONUS.

I doubt they've changed it... I've never seen an OB/GYN get deployed, so I don't know who they'd get to take care of your pregnancy if they did keep you in the AOR.

Anyone currently AD can feel free to correct any of the above.

 

[BomberDoc]

That checks. Once you are pregnant, you are on a profile and non-deployable. If you get pregnant while deployed, you get re-deployed back home. I have also seen females who get pregnant every time their AEF comes up. Nobody likes them.

 

[militarymd]

Ditto with the Navy....

Men and women are equal...until it's time for the unpleasant work...then the women pull the TRUMP CARD that can't be beat....

Jane blow says she's pregnant......Joe blow gets to go on a cruise.

 

[Mirror Form]

Men and women are equal...until it's time for the unpleasant work.

Unfortunatley this seems to be true in a lot of areas of life, but it's especially the case in the military.

P.S. Is that a new motorcycle? What happened to the red one?

 

[NavyFP]

What happens if you are pregnant and are deployed? Is your deployment delayed or do they take you as soon as you deliver? What happens if you are in regular payback time, do you have to stay longer to make up for maternity leave?

Standard Navy policy is that you are deployable until 20 weeks. Standard practice, however, is that you are sent back when you are determined to be pregnant. The caveat is that if you are in an operational billet, you will be returned to an operational billet after the 6 week post-partum period.

I have seen young women sent to sea immediately following delivery, leaving infants at home with dad or grandparents. Although this seems Draconian, it was done in response to the large number of women who became pregnant at the beginning of a deployment cycle in order to get out of it. Is it always done? No, but it is something keep in mind.

 

[militarymd]

Unfortunatley this seems to be true in a lot of areas of life, but it's especially the case in the military.

P.S. Is that a new motorcycle? What happened to the red one?

I've had it about a year....crashed the red one in a tight right hander.

 

[Croooz]

I've had it about a year....crashed the red one in a tight right hander.

You always know a biker when they use the word "crash" instead of "accident". I had an accident in my pants when I almost crashed my bike last month. There outta be a law against Asian women in SUV's putting on makeup.

Sorry no pregnancy deployment help from me. Only 2 cents are pregnancies are usually used as trump cards and the one who gets trumped has to understand that it's for the "greater good".

 

[militarymd]

You always know a biker when they use the word "crash" instead of "accident". I had an accident in my pants when I almost crashed my bike last month. There outta be a law against Asian women in SUV's putting on makeup.

Sorry no pregnancy deployment help from me. Only 2 cents are pregnancies are usually used as trump cards and the one who gets trumped has to understand that it's for the "greater good".

What greater good are we talking about here?

The last I checked, we don't have any problems with a dminishing population....if anything, we are having a problem with OVER population.

 

[i want out]

Standard Navy policy is that you are deployable until 20 weeks. Standard practice, however, is that you are sent back when you are determined to be pregnant. The caveat is that if you are in an operational billet, you will be returned to an operational billet after the 6 week post-partum period.

I have seen young women sent to sea immediately following delivery, leaving infants at home with dad or grandparents. Although this seems Draconian, it was done in response to the large number of women who became pregnant at the beginning of a deployment cycle in order to get out of it. Is it always done? No, but it is something keep in mind.

The above is correct with a couple additional stipulations. You also have to remain within 3 hours by any means of a facility that can theoreticly handle spontaneous AB with excessive bleeding.

Most times in the sand, the policy, is that your out of the country in less than 7 days. This is what caused some pretty funny situations...

5 young women from single unit pop pregnant, on urine tests. Funny thing is that only one of them remained pregnant after arriving home. She had sold her urine to the other four. After that, we had to draw serum and put it on the tester...

i want out (resignation accepted)

 

[backrow]

5 young women from single unit pop pregnant, on urine tests. Funny thing is that only one of them remained pregnant after arriving home. She had sold her urine to the other four. After that, we had to draw serum and put it on the tester...

Ingenious I say. I hope they get the karma they deserve though. I also hope they put those women on the next plane back to the sand box

 

[Croooz]

It's in quotes. The only greater good is for the mother to be who no longer has to deploy.

What greater good are we talking about here?

The last I checked, we don't have any problems with a dminishing population....if anything, we are having a problem with OVER population.

 

[MeganRose]

Unfortunatley this seems to be true in a lot of areas of life...QUOTE]
Umm yeah, like being the primary caregiver, running a household, usually while working full time. Guys definitely get the short end of the stick. Whatever.

 

[militarymd]

It's in quotes. The only greater good is for the mother to be who no longer has to deploy.

gotcha

 

[|2idicu|ous]

I saw women do this out in the desert then promptly get an abortion once back in CONUS.

OMG thats horrible.

 

[Ex-44E3A]

It's one of the inequities between men and women in the military system. There's nothing to be done about it. Yes, it's sometimes abused (or we're to believe an extensive set of innocent coincidences when it happens for EVERY deployement cycle), but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

In my experience, the women who choose to defer pregnancy and actually do their duty show no mercy to women that abuse it... and why should they? Abusing the pregnancy card brings down the stock of every woman who has ever worked her ass off to prove they're just as fit to serve in that capacity as a man.

 

[aidith]

...the women who choose to defer pregnancy and actually do their duty show no mercy to women that abuse it... and why should they? Abusing the pregnancy card brings down the stock of every woman who has ever worked her ass off to prove they're just as fit to serve in that capacity as a man.

VERY true!!