Going to school with a 4 month old granddaughter..HELP!!!

[harleyz]

My adult daughter has left her 4 month old baby with my husband who is 53 and myself and I am due to start nursing school full time in January. I am currently working full time and going to school practicly full time, I now have my grandbaby to care for. I am planning on quitting my full time job for school, but now with added day care and other expenses, I am in need of assistance or advice on how to get additional student loans to offset the costs as well as how to NOT pull my hair out!

Any advice from everyone is greatly appreciated!

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

If you have legal custody of this child, the parents should be paying child support which might offset child care.

In IL, we also have a program for low-income parents which subsidizes child care. So, if you don't have legal custody of this baby, the parents income could be used for this.

If you have custody of the baby via children's services, they sometimes have subsidies too.

At any rate, good luck. It can be done with little ones but its harder.

[harleyz]

Well it has just been a very recent change, and we are having to file for emergency custody so that she cannot take her out of State....long story. So hopefully once we have that, I can look into something like that here in Colorado. Thanks so much for the information.