Video: Camp Bastion baby: armed forces must trust women to know if they are pregnant, says midwife "If she was feeling naseous, if her periods had stopped, she could have put that down to the stress of being in Afghanistan," she said. Despite military policy banning pregnant servicewomen from being deployed on overseas operations, concerns were raised about how the female gunner could give birth in the war zone. This had led to calls for servicewomen to be screened before deployment. However, the Royal College of Midwives spokeswoman said the armed forces should continue to trust in a woman's knowledge of her own body. If you ask a woman whether she thinks she may be pregnant and she says 'no', what else can you do really? You can't really insist on doing a pregnancy test," she said.