Getting your player ready...
Soldiers at Fort Carson stay busy even when they’re away from the rigors of combat.
This time, though, they’re battling diapers, bottles and pacifiers.
The hospital on the Army post this month has been delivering more than 10 babies a day in a boom that comes about nine months after the 3,500-soldier 4th Brigade Combat Team returned home after a year in Afghanistan.
“Business is booming around here,” said Debra Craven, a nurse who works with the newborns at Carson’s Evans Army Community Hospital.
The influx of new life is expected to continue through July, when things are expected to slow at the maternity ward to the usual 150 to 180 births per month.
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