Good Morning! We just said good bye to our daddy/husband. Robert has a training that he has to go to in Nashville at Fort Campbell. He has told me repeatedly that this type of training he could just as easily get here but they are still sending him away. He also could've been sent earlier this year (it runs in three month rotations), but they chose these three months to only send him. He is going by himself. Typically for training he goes with the rest of the people he works with who are also residents. But, for a reason I don't quite understand, he has to go by himself this time. He left today, July 5th and will return (for good) in early October. So essentially he will be gone July, August, September. The good news is that the drive isn't too terribly far. We will know for sure at the end of today how long it takes him, but probably alittle over 6 hours, we believe.
He plans on coming home for the weekend in two weeks. Which will mean, he will leave after work Friday evening and get home in the middle of the night. Leaving all day Saturday and part of Sunday at home. Soooo, about 36ish hours. For the first several weeks of his training he will also be studying for the EPPP, which is sorta like the equivilant of the psychologist's board exam(I think). It will cost $500 for him to take it and we do not get that money back if he fails. I believe this exam gets him licensed, but I'm not completely sure. I could be wrong. But we are counting it as a blessing that he will be locked in a hotel room by himself for several weeks (besides work) and that will FORCE him to study well. (he's easily distracted from things he doesn't want to do) Our baby is due to make his or her appearance at the very end of August. So when I hit around 37 weeks, he will come home every weekend. (God willing he will have already taken and passed his exam by then) He is doing this as a way of trying to be close when I go into labor. Since we are having a homebirth and we are so strongly against elective induction, we will just be hoping and praying that he will get to be in attendance at the birth. : ( If labor starts in the middle of the week, he will be my first call. (since I have never dealt with false labor, this should work) But he will have to pass it by his superior and then pack his bags and check out of his hotel room before he will be able to leave. He's pretty optimistic about making it home before the birth, even if he's driving through my labor because Cal and Bryse's labors were around six hours. Jasper's was an induction, but once things started going it was two hours. And this is my fifth baby, they tend to get faster (although, mind you, not all the time) So, truly, this is out of our hands. Robert has never been super passionate about being really involved in childbirth. He has always viewed it as amazing and wants to help, but not in the way some dads do. He wants a task he can handle and comforting me or catching the baby are NOT the task he wants. : ) He feels quite strongly that women should support women for childbirth, as God has best equiped women with the knowledge of that process. He says he feels inadequate to even try. But that does not mean that he wants to miss out on the birth all together. SO, we will be praying that he gets to be there. Regardless, though, he will be able to be home for ten days after the baby is born. So that will be wonderful. I think that answers all the frequently asked questions about him being gone! Thanks for the prayers during this time in our lives! : )
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