First of all, there is obviously no sleep in either situation. You flop into bed and sleep for 3-4 hours until someone screams at you until you wake up, jump out of bed, and haul booty to pacify your screeching taskmaster.
Second, you eat whatever you can grab, and you eat it FAST.
Also, the shower situation is very similar. You shower fast, wash the most vital areas, often in a shower with other people (if you have multiple small children), and get out. There is very little time to enjoy the water.
There are other things that match up for having babies and being in BMT, too. The phrases "Shut up and color", "Hurry up and wait", and "WITH A SENSE OF URGENCY!!" come to mind. Doing laundry is a terrible job that takes FOREVER to get done, and you always smell bad. In BMT it's body odor and boot polish and in new motherhood it's a lovely mixture of spit-up and dirty diapers.
Also, having a baby and joining the military are both great ways to lose weight.
But, in all honesty, I think that being in the military IS good training for having kids. You learn how to tune out the sound of someone screaming in your face, function on very little sleep, and you find out that you can never actually be too tired for a little more exercise :)
You also learn that you are stronger than anything you come up against, that hard work and determination will see you through, and when you feel like you can't take any more you PRAY. God will carry you until you can pull yourself up again.
And the AF Core Values can be re-used too:
Integrity first
Service before self
Excellence in all we do
Sounds like the motto of a good mom to me.
PS- Hang in there, new moms (and veteran moms with new babies)! Nobody stays "in training" forever! <3
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