Pregnant while in nursing school?

[jmichelle820]

I am almost 4 months pregnant and am entering my 2nd out of 4 semesters in an ADN program on August 19th. As my back to school date rapidly approaches, I am finding myself getting more and more nervous about balancing it all. Plus I have an almost 5 year old at home. My husband is very supportive of me finishing my degree so I am lucky to have that. Has anyone else had this experience or known anyone that was and managed to be successful?

[melizerd, ASN, RN]

One of the girls in my program had her third child while in school. She had the baby on a Thurs and came back on Mon. She was in my clinical (held wed/thurs) and she was doing everything we all were the day she had the baby and the next week she came back. She went and pumped during our lunch time. Our school is very accommodating, there's places to pump on campus and the hospital we were in has a fabulous pumping room too.

It can be done, but it is hard that's for sure!

[jmichelle820]

Thank you to everyone who commented. It is encouraging to know hear stories of people who have been successful. I know it will be lot of hard work (first week and it already is!) but it will be worth it and I know my kids will be proud of their mama one day :)

[devhrt12]

To follow up on this situation. I was asked to re-register for the next semester after the baby was born. Due to liability issues and the safety of my baby. At least I will be very prepared for my assigned readings and calculating doseages.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

I had a baby during Christmas break of my senior year of my BSN program. I had a c-section and some complications which necessitated a hospitalization several days after giving birth. If I had banked on coming back 3 days after giving birth, I would have been screwed. As it was, I took off the next semester and summer session to recover and enjoy my baby. I went back the following fall semester.

It was very very hard, in my opinion to balance childbirth, being a mother to a 3 year old, maintaining my relationship with my husband and extended family, and doing a good job in nursing school. I got through it somehow, and so will you. But I sure wouldn't recommend it to someone who is not now pregnant and is considering starting a family or adding to one while in nursing school. There are only so many hours in a day, so something is going to have to suffer.