Babies For All

1.  I was pregnant.
2.  Captain's wife was pregnant.
3.  The Girl was pregnant.
4.The Crim Law Clerk upstairs was pregnant.
5.  Another JAG clerk was pregnant.
6.  The civilian secretary's young sister was pregnant.
7.  Miss B probably wanted to be pregnant.
8.  A defense JAG clerk's wife was pregnant.

Babies for all!

Okay so you already know about me.

You already know about the Captain (slides his name over to "do not like" list)

You already know about Miss B, who really wasn't pregnant.

You already know about The Girl.

I guess now you need to know about the others.

Okay well, the civilian secretary was older than me, she had kids just a few years younger than me and she also had a sister younger than me.  I don't really remember all the details of the family logistics.  But . . .

The sister was not married and really didn't want to be pregnant and so, she decided to terminate her pregnancy and she asked her sister to go with her.  The sister (my civilian counter part in the office) just wasn't on board with that decision at all and she did all she could to talk her sister out of it but, her sister had made up her mind.  The secretary was sick about it for weeks but decided she'd go and support her sister. 

I'll never forget that day, the secretary took the day off from work to go with her sister.  That whole day it weighed heavy on my mind and heart.  Here I was pregnant, too and not married and yet, my baby was alive.  I was disturbed and distracted all day long.

The next day the secretary comes to work and first thing says to me, "She didn't do it!  She changed her mind!  When we got there she just couldn't go through with it!!  So I brought her home and she's going to have and keep her baby."

And having never ever met that girl before in my life, I was so proud of her.  I felt kindred, in a way.

#5, another JAG Clerk --I don't remember much about her except her baby was born just a few days after my baby, though she was due a whole month after.  Her little pre-mature girl was a tiny tiny 4 pounds and her name was Amanda.  And this girl, her husband and baby were at a Christmas party that I was at too.  Her daughter was so tiny she couldn't even drink out of a normal bottle --it was seriously the same size as my baby doll bottles I had as a little girl.  And I also remember she didn't strike me as the best mother --it seemed motherhood was a complete inconvenience to her.  And that's all I really remember about her.

The Crim Law clerk?  Oh yeah, I remember her well.