Am I crazy?

Well, you won't be able to "wear him" to school and breast feed on demand as you will be away from him for 8 hours or so a day. You may want to start to potty train him for it will be one less task to accomplish and less laundry. You may also want to start wearing him a little less and leaving for short periods of time so it isn't such a shock to him that suddenly......You're gone. That is a perfect set up for a meltdown, screaming hysteria on a 2 year old. When they aren't happy aint NOBODY happy!!

Nursing school is VERY difficult and demanding as is being a nurse. You are going to need a lot of help from your husband/significant other and family. Nursing IS hard and you will have to study......a lot. Start getting your son familiar with books, studying, computers and your attention being divided. I worked nights throughout my children's infancy and childhood (girl and a boy.....11 months apart).

They knew their Momma was a nurse and I kissed BooBoo's, But I was home every morning, afternoon and night. I was there when they woke up and when they went to sleep, when they napped I napped. Was it hard? YES. Was I exhausted? YES Was it worth it? ABSOLUTELY. They turn 15 and 16 in April.

They laugh that they didn't think I left the house when they were little that I went to work in the garage or something because they never saw me leave....I just seemed to always be there. They have never spend not one second in daycare and have always been cared for by my husband or I. I am very close to my teenagers and we love each other....ask them they'll tell you.

Being a nurse did that for me. :loveya:

You wanted quotes.....

1 Corinthians 13:11 "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things".

“What is worth having is worth working for.”

― Philip Pullman

"Nothing will work unless you do"

Maya Angelou

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a b!^ch. You have to go out and kick a$$".

Maya Angelou

"For when we know better we do better".

Maya Angelou

i saw you liked a post by our rubyvee. what she said is really true........here are parts of that post

"do you want to be a nurse?

there's more to it than a calling. here are some questions to consider.

i've been a nurse for a long time -- probably longer than most of you reading this have been alive. had i known what i was getting into, i probably would not have gotten into it. fortunately, i had no idea. i say fortunately, because nursing has been an interesting and flexible career that has afforded me a nice lifestyle and kept me from being bored. i wouldn't go back and change my mind about going into nursing if i could..

oh, and i met my husband at work. another bonus!

if you're considering a career in nursing, make sure you're clear on why you're considering it. i'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone's motives for wanting to be a nurse. after all, mine weren't all that altruistic. i wanted a degree that would enable me to be a sought-after employee rather than me having to face rejection after rejection while hunting for a job. i know that doesn't apply now, but it did then. and my mother, who had always wanted to be an lpn, told me that i should go to school to become an rn because “all they do is sit at the desk and drink coffee and flirt with the doctors while someone else does all the work.” it should be noted that my mother’s closest proximity to hospital nursing were her two stays in the maternity ward, as they called it then. the fact that she didn't know what she was talking about has never stopped her from having a strong opinion, however.

some people go into nursing as a "calling." they figure that all they need is a compassion or a desire to help people or a willingness to put the patient first at all times and pour heart and soul into their care. those things are nice, but a calling alone is not enough. you need to be a good enough student to graduate from a very difficult course of study and then a good enough test taker to pass the licensing exam. you need to be able to memorize drugs and their standard doses, uses and side effects, read and understand written english and be able to make yourself understood both orally and in writing. you need to be able to prioritize, to multitask and to run your buns off for twelve hours straight with only the briefest of breaks. compassion is nice, but i'll take the nurse who has mastered critical thinking . . . i've worked with both and been under the care of both. in the best of all worlds, a nurse has both compassion and critical thinking skills, but compassion can be faked. critical thinking cannot."

she went on to say......

"still interested in a career in nursing? understand that hospitals are open for business 24 hours a day and 365 days a year. working nights, weekends and holidays is a given. i don't understand how so many people manage to make it all the way through nursing school without it dawning on them that they, too, will really have to work an overnight shift, but there are some every year. and there are those who are convinced that they are so special they shouldn't ever have to work those undesirable shifts. honey, if you're that special, don't take a job in the hospital. (but that's where the money is, you say? make up your mind. if you want to work in the hospital setting, you take the bad with the good)

if you live in the snow belt, you will be expected to work when it snows. even if it snows a lot. every year, there are posts from new nurses who don't feel they should have to drive to work in a blizzard. they have small children or their car isn't good in snow or they've never learned how to drive in the winter. none of those are good excuses, and you will be expected to work. if there's a hurricane, bring four days worth of clean underwear and prescription medication, because you'll be at work for the duration. or you won't have a job. have a plan for your dog, your children and your elderly parents because part of working in a hospital is coming to work when everyone else stays home. and while i’m touching on that topic, you will be coming to work when the neighbors are hosting the neighborhood block party, when your husband is out of town on business and when your kids are sick. have a plan in place for those times.

if you've read all this and you still think you'd like to be a nurse, good for you. in the 34 years i've been a nurse, i've been spit at, slapped, kicked, punched, cursed and threatened. i've also been the recipient of grateful smiles, wonderful thank you notes and boxes of chocolate. i've had horrible days where i couldn't do anything right and felt behind the whole day, and i've had wonderful days when i know i really made a difference to someone. i've worked night shifts, days and evenings and i've worked all of them in the same week. i've worked christmases and thanksgivings and mothers days and easter. but i've had my birthday and my wedding anniversary off every year, and not many office workers can say that! when my car's engine needed to be replaced and i had no money, i worked overtime. lots of it. can't do that in the office. when i needed to be home with an elderly parent, i arranged my schedule so that either dh or i would be home at all times. can't do that in an office, either. i worked every weekend when i was in graduate school, going to school full time and working full time. when my then-boyfriend moved out on christmas eve, i traded shifts with a nurse whose boyfriend unexpectedly flew back from the gulf war for christmas, and when my father knew he wasn't going to make it through the winter, someone traded shifts with me so i could drive 1000 miles to cook him thanksgiving dinner. not only would that not be an option in office work, office workers probably would not even think about it as valuable.

i've learned to laugh at things that would make me cry if i didn't, and i've learned to appreciate what i have because plenty of people have less. i cannot imagine what my life would have been if i hadn't been a nurse, and if i had to do it all over again, i would.

https://allnurses.com/nursing-articles/those-considering-career-653061.html

nursing will be hard, you will have to study, you will have to make sacrifices......but every bit of it is worth it.

now go out there and kick some butt!