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Navy For Moms

This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

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Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak

All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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Graduation Info
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JPG – 3.4 MB
Printable PDF – 2.0 MB

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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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A place to come to for Navy Moms & Family Members who find themselves with an emptynest. A place to share our thoughts..comfort each other and give advice.

Members: 582
Latest Activity: Feb 17

EMPTYNESTERS

Please, if you no longer want to be a part of N4M's consider NOT deleting your profile as everything you have ever posted will disappear when you delete it . You can leave a group but don't permanently delete your profile!

A place to come to for Navy Moms & Family Members who find themselves with an emptynest. A place to share our thoughts..comfort each other and give advice.

RED CROSS CONTACT INFO:

In the event of an emergency within the sailor’s family, where you feel the sailor must be notified and considered for Emergency Leave, you must notify the American Red Cross through the national headquarters in Washington, DC (1-877-272-7337) or via their website www.redcross.org.

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Comment by Jacob94mom on May 13, 2023 at 10:03am: Congratulations! They must be exhausted! Hope mom and dad can get some rest. Not much in the hospital I’m sure.
My son asked after the first night home how do we get him to sleep at night. Hahaha gave him my best advice, swaddle, sound machine but Dude! He’s not even a week old.

Comment by mariecb on May 13, 2023 at 8:32am: Finally!! Congratulations to all!!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on May 13, 2023 at 12:43am: 12:05am EST 5/13/23 baby Oliver has arrived! Mom is doing great. Waiting on vitals. I’m so excited!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on May 12, 2023 at 5:44pm: Well she's at 10cm and we are hoping that Oliver arrives soon!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on May 12, 2023 at 11:21am: Hi all - still no baby yet! Crazy, right?!? After a long night her water finally broke early this morning. And she did finally consent to the epidural. B said the pain was so bad he finally helped convince her that there was nothing wrong with having it. So she's at 7cm, finally able to rest a little and we are hoping it isn't much longer. They've been at the hospital almost 48 hours now.....I just hope he doesn't decide to wait until his due date tomorrow lol!

Comment by Jacob94mom on May 11, 2023 at 5:26pm: Great news B’s!! And good for her! My step-daughter had 2 of her babies at home with a mid-wife and no meds. It’s definitely doable.
Over here cheering her on!
Cameron is home! They don’t want us to share pictures with anyone except family as of now. But he’s adorable of course!! I can’t wait to snuggle him next month.

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on May 11, 2023 at 4:41pm: She made it to 5 and they have started the pitocin again! She texted me and said she was feeling alright and "getting prepped for more intense contractions". So let's hope things pick up now that she's at 5cm. Still no pain meds and she's hoping to make it through without - fingers crossed for her sake!

Comment by B'sNukeMoM⚓️MMN(Vet) on May 11, 2023 at 2:33pm: Jacob94mom - yay! So glad Cameron is going home today! That is fantastic news ;-D

So last update (about 3 hours ago) she was at 4-5 cm. Hoping to hear something soon and things get going. I'll keep you all updated....fingers crossed she's further along and we have a baby soon!

Comment by Jacob94mom on May 11, 2023 at 10:42am: Cameron gets to go home today! He had to stay overnight with no monitors. Mom and dad went home last night to get some good rest, and help calm the fur kids some after being gone for 4 days.
B’s. Ours was pretty slow progress in the beginning too! And the same thing, they stopped the Pitocin to let mom rest. Once she got to 5cm things went quickly but that seemed to take forever.
Keep up with the updates!