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First-- If you haven't sworn in yet, unless things have changed up at MEPS, you do not have a ship date. If you don't have a ship date, there is a strong potential (based on training seats available for BCT a few years ago) that you won't get a ship date for at least a few months.
I'm not sure what your recruiter is telling you, but I would guess he would prefer that you enlist PRIOR to having the baby to avoid the extra paperwork. If you haven't asked the likely ship date, your recruiter *should* be able to give you a rough estimate. But looking at the current date, and considering a March 2013 projected arrival, I would guess you would be in BCT when your child is born. Or maybe Airborne (unless the pipeline has changed).
The odds of you being at Selection in 4 months without having sworn in, is by all estimations, impossible. Being elsewhere in the pipeline may be easier to see your child born, though I have no experience in the matter. Just pray that your wife/girlfriend is competent and independent, otherwise you are going to have a very heavy weight on your back, in addition to a heavy rucksack on your back.
Think this through before you swear in.
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