Hours after a British soldier in Afghanistan told medics that she was suffering from stomach pains, she unexpectedly gave birth to a boy — the first child ever born in combat to a member of Britain’s armed forces. The Defense Ministry said Thursday that the soldier said she had not been aware she was pregnant and only consulted doctors on the day that she went into labor. The soldier, who arrived in Afghanistan in March, delivered the child on Tuesday at Camp Bastion, the base in Helmand Province where Prince Harry is deployed and a Taliban attack last week killed two American Marines. The ministry said the soldier and her son would return to Britain. The British military does...
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