FIRST Babies

[BrittaJeanetta]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Not alumni exactly... but so far two mentors from our team have had kids while on the team! With the first, she was very pregnant during competition (the kid was due right around champs), and we got a ton of "who's the pregnant girl on your team?" questions... very awkward. The second had the baby right before our first competition this year, and brought it to meet the team at our second competition this past weekend. Again, questions of "Who's the girl with the newborn on your team?"... very awkward. But I guess that's what you get when you have two female mentors who both look young enough to be team members!

I have to say I agree with this. I was 6 months pregnant at the Wisconsin Regional. As we were receiving our Team Spirit Award I overhead one of the judges saying well I sure hope she isn't a student. While everyone who I told this story said, "Well that means you look really young!" I found it quite offensive. Its one thing to wonder, its a completely different thing to make a comment that could be overherd by the person. Yes I understand I look young and that is great! But can you imagine how someone would feel if they were a high schooler and pregnant and they overheard someone saying something like that about them.

I have to say I'm pretty excited to have a FIRST baby. While I won't be super involved this coming year, my husband and I will definately be going to the events and bringing our little one with us. I look forward to another 18 years of FIRST involvement.