A great NPR piece was broadcast this weekend on a handful of war correspondents who are either having babies or recently gave birth.

Among them is Hannah Allam, the great McClatchy veteran war scribe whom I profiled back in 2005 while at Editor & Publisher. She talked to NPR during her own baby shower.

“Allam isn't the first foreign correspondent this year to be pregnant in Iraq. Deborah Haynes from The Times of London paved the way, giving birth to a boy. Nada Bakri from the The New York Times was in her eighth month of pregnancy when she left to give birth a few months ago, also to a boy,” NPR reports. “In a room festooned with blue bunting, Allam reflects on covering a war while pregnant: 'The reactions started to change when my belly got bigger and definitely with the military. I spent most of the first trimester here. I was at the Iranian border, I was on a Chinook, I was on a Blackhawk, no problem. Second I start showing, they took one look at me and said we're not putting you on a Blackhawk,' Allam says.”

Hear the entire story HERE