Any infertile ob/gyn nurses here?

[missnursingstudent19]

Hi,

I haven't started nursing school yet, but I'm considering becoming an ob/gyn nurse. The thing is, I have Turner Syndrome so I'll never be able to have kids. I'm afraid that would make this job too emotionally difficult for me, but I don't really know because I've never tried to do it. Any of you guys infertile who are ob/gyn nurses? And how do you deal with it?

[BSN16]

if it did happen to be too emotional for you, you would still be an RN. You can work in any specialty imaginable if you didn't tolerate OB

[babynurse101]

I don't personally have a fertility problem (that I know of, I have no desire to have kids any time soon), but I work in all areas of OB - L&D, mother/baby, NICU, and even occasionally peds - and I'd actually say about half my coworkers were never able to have children or just never did. Granted this is likely a coincidence, but a lot of the ladies I work with say working in mother/baby or L&D, etc., fulfills that part of themselves that "missed out" rather than exaggerates their sadness.

One thing I know one of my coworkers became a mom/baby nurse for was the adoption process. We as mom/baby nurses take care of all infants, especially the abandoned/withdrawing/up-for-adoption babies waiting for a good home. One of my coworkers got permission to be a foster parent, and ended up permanently adopting three of the infants she'd cared for in hospital.

But everyone is different, and everyone deals with grief/struggles in different ways.