Oh my gosh! She's done it again! Can this season get any better on Oprah?!?!
I tape her and Dr. Phil and watch them later at night and this past Monday's show of her's just floored me and had me in tears... again...
She took her show to Fort Campbell Army Base in Kentucky where she put on a SURPRISE HUGE Baby Shower for (looks to verify number) "640 pregnant women who are all due within three months of each other!" 640!!! Can you believe that?!? the idea for The World's Biggest Baby Shower show was inspired by Operation Stork Support. http://www.workforceessentials.com/storksupport.htm
All of the women received $1,000 in cash for the baby and over $4,000 in baby items through this show. Johnson and Johnson was the sponsor. Along with a digital camera, a travel system, bath tub, video monitor, high chair, diaper bags, etc. -
I never saw so many swollen bellies in one place in all my life! It was incrediable and awesome! And the gifts - WHOA! Let's see if I can list them all:
From Oprah.com
Johnson & Johnson Provided:
Johnson's® Nourishing Milk Lotion Johnson's® Nourishing Milk Wash
Johnson's® Soothing Vapor Baby Bath Johnson's® Light Oil Mist
Johnson's® Baby Oil Balmex® Diaper Rash ointment Johnson's® Bedtime Bath®
Johnson's® Bedtime Lotion® Johnson's® Head-to-Toe® Baby Wash
Johnson's® Baby Shampoo Johnson's® Softlotion™ Light Care Lotion
Johnson's® Baby Lotion Johnson's® Nursing Pads
Johnson's® Softwash™ Body Wash Johnson's® Baby Powder
Johnson's® Safety Swabs PRIMO® Infant Bath Seat
Embroidered Johnson & Johnson hooded towel Free membership to babycenter.com
$1,000 travel gift to bring a friend or relative there for the blessed event!
Amazon.com Provided baby books, including: Goodnight Moon Pat the Bunny
Where Is Baby's Belly Button Baby Talk Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
Avent Provided Newborn Starter Set.
Babies"R"Us Provided:
Gerber "O Baby" onesies Playtex Diaper Genie®
Talking Geoffrey doll Crayola® products, including Washable Crayons set, Animal Songs CD, and Color Wonder Finger Paint and coloring book set
Fisher-Price® Look-a-doo Water Teether
Big-stuffedanimals.com Provided stuffed animals.
Boppy® Provided Boppy® infant support pillow.
Cherry Pie® Provided gift certificates for mini-celeb baby gift baskets.
Deckers Outdoor Corporation Provided UGG® "Erin" baby booties.
Diaper Dude® Provided Diaper Dude® diaper bags.
Dorel Juvenile Group Provided Eddie Bauer® Playard and Safety 1st® video monitor.
Elle Macpherson Intimates Collection Provided Maternelle Maternity Bra.
Evenflo Provided ExerSaucers® and Nicole Miller Snuglis®
Fleurville Provided MotherShip® diaper bags.
Graco® Provided Quattro Tour® travel system.
Huggies® Provided diapers and disposable changing pads.
Inphant Elefant Provided chenille blankets.
North American Bear Co., Inc. Provided stuffed animals.
Old Navy Provided Star Gift Set.
Random House Provided baby books, including: Are you My Mother? Green Eggs & Ham Horton Hears a Who How the Grinch Stole Christmas Hunches in Bunches Oh, The Places You'll Go One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish The Cat in the Hat The Cat in the Hat Comes Back Yertle
Sam Godfrey of Perfect Endings Provided an AWESOME decorated cake.
It was so inspiring! If you missed it look for the rerun!
Oh, yes, and while the show was going on, a mother was in labor and they showed her delivery! A baby girl was born - Sweet!
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A related story:
Post-Iraq Baby Boom FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky, Sept. 28, 2004
Kentucky's Fort Campbell is home to the Army's Airborne 101st Division. The post welcomed home large contingents of soldiers in January and February.
And now, reports The Early Show's Debbye Turner, many wives of those soldiers, and many GIs themselves, are pregnant.
In November alone, the base expects close to 200 babies to be delivered at its hospital.
And that's just the beginning: The high rate of births will continue into April, with the post projecting more than 1,000 births over the next six months, 70 percent more than usual.
Col. Matrice Browne, chief of women's health at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at Fort Campbell, isn't surprised: "When folks go away for a while, they come back. And it's a perfect time for them to expand their families."
Twenty percent of Fort Campbell' s pregnant women are active duty soldiers. If healthy after the births, these new moms can be deployed as early as four months later.
These women are expected to continue their army routine during their pregnancy, including staying physically fit. The fort offers an exercise and education program for the pregnant soldiers that begins when their prenatal care does. It's called STARS, which stands for Soldiers, Training, Ability, Readiness, Spirit.
The maternity ward's just-completed $4.2 million renovation, planned before the boom, comes just in time.
Fort Campbell was also hit with a spike in births a decade ago when soldiers returned from Operation Desert Storm, Turner notes.
The latest boom is being dubbed Operation Baby Freedom, in honor of soldiers returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Sgt. Carl Schimpf's wife, Samantha, says the baby they're expecting was conceived shortly after his tour of duty in Iraq ended. "A couple of weeks after he got back, he got 30 days leave, and we took a trip to Disney World. ...And on the way home, I suspected, I think I might be pregnant."
She was, and they're expecting their second child, a girl, in November, 10 months after Carl got back.
Carl missed much of Samantha's first pregnancy, so, "I'm looking forward to all of it, you know. Being able to hold a baby again, and to feed her, and to just be able to talk to her. And you know, just look at her."
But the happy times are tempered with the realities of war. Says Carl, "It's on the back of your mind. You know, when I'm going to go next, where I'm going to be. But if you start thinking like that all the time, then ... you don't enjoy the time when you're here."
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