{"id":34239,"date":"2017-12-06T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T20:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/12\/06\/new-airman-battle-uniforms-now-available-for-pregnant-airmen\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:02:02","slug":"new-airman-battle-uniforms-now-available-for-pregnant-airmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/2017\/12\/06\/new-airman-battle-uniforms-now-available-for-pregnant-airmen\/","title":{"rendered":"New Airman Battle Uniforms now available for pregnant airmen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Air Force has rolled out new maternity uniforms for expecting airmen, according to the Air Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The creation of the new option, designed and developed by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center\u2019s Air Force Uniform Office, was prompted by airmen saying the old version was \u201crestrictive and uncomfortable,\u201d according to an Air Force news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This forced airmen to cut the elastic on the waistband of the slacks to relieve pressure and use safety pins to keep it in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had a couple of women tell me that they took traditional non-maternity [Airman Battle Uniform] slacks, got a belly band from a store, went to a seamstress and had them cut and sewn for custom maternity slacks,\u201d Capt. Taylor Harrison, the program manager for the Uniform Office, said in the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\t