Military spouse and your baby shower.

Re: Military spouse and your baby shower.

• meganjoelle member

  March 2015

  Hubby is military (but on shore duty thankfully and not sea duty currently), we actually discussed that even if he couldn't get leave, I would go to see family while I'm still comfortable enough to travel. My mom and I actually worked it out so that if I hadn't been able to come in a few weeks once my job ends, we would do a video baby shower via Skype with our closest family members (parents, siblings, grandparents, etc).
  
  You're definitely not the only one this happens to! Him being around for this stuff and not deployed or at sea were big factors in why we waited until now to even try for kids. Be strong, and maybe look into your local area to see if there is an Operation Shower event or a red, white, and blue babies event coming soon!

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• cassare member

  March 2015

  I'm not having a baby shower since we are currently overseas in Okinawa. The cost of shipping baby stuff here would be more than the price of the items, especially big items. Plus our families are scattered everywhere so it doesn't make sense to try and hold one stateside. We've already purchased most of what we will need already and have had friends on island give us their no longer needed baby items as well.

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• HoneyBadger8 member

  March 2015

  We are traveling home for a really quick weekend over the easter holiday since they have given the guys a 4 day weekend.

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• CourtneySmith1227 member

  March 2015 edited March 2015

  See we were gonna do that but he has weekend duty which I love right now cause he gets a "long weekend". And i am not exactly sure if he will get it off cause most holidays other people work get off but weekend duty dont.

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• KaLikeAWind member

  March 2015

  Another military spouse here! DH is Coast Guard, so we are in the states, but we are far away from family, and family has spread themselves out, too. So, no shower for us. My sister had twins 2 years ago and has been slowly shipping me some hand me downs. My mom will I know buy the carseat and maybe something else. The one good thing about this life ladies, is that we have friends from ALL OVER. I personally know people in all 4 corners of the US and a couple overseas peeps. So our social circle is larger. It makes for a nice knowledge base of other moms to talk to, and you can bet I didn't hesitate to throw that registry up on my fb. Course, even being stateside none of these really good friends has still bought anything off of it, but there's still time, and I have no shame in reminding them.
  
  P.s. - Tricare sucks about the breast pump! :-q

  

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• Zeuskay01 member

  March 2015

  Dual military here, hubby and I are both in the Army. We did our baby shower pretty early (last weekend actually) because it is so much harder to plan leave with two separate units and constant training. We live in WA and my family is in FL, we both just asked for a 4 day passed and explained the situation and it got approved. If he has duty of some sort he can always try to get it covered by someone? If not you can always sign up for an online shower through amazon

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• HoneyBadger8 member

  March 2015

  One of the other army wives where we are at was planning on throwing a little shower for me, like a girls get together...maybe if you have a couple close friends there you can have a little one with friends

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• ChristinaKon member

  March 2015 edited March 2015

  Hubby's in the AF, and were stationed in Hawaii, so going back to the mainland is not an option for us. However someone from his squadron is going to be throwing me a shower. It will be more like a work bbq, but I still appreciate that they are putting it together for me.

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