BABY during School??

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We are thinking about having our 2nd child. It would be 7 months by the time I started school in May 2013. What is your advice? Would I be gone too much? Im not working just school and possibly to kids. Thoughts??!

haha... I said exhausting, and yes many late nights :) But doable just gotta invest in some coffee

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I have a little boy who is about to turn 1. I got pregnant during my first semester and decided to take a year off, rather than risk failing because of absences related to the birth. I resumed the program in my second semester in September when he was 9 months. I'm in the evening program and it's been doable thanks to having him in daycare 2 days a week, which allows me to get work and studying done during the day. Also, my husband and mom have been great about helping out. I'm making mostly A's and my family is not falling apart. As long as you have a good support system, I think it's manageable. The only thing that bothers me is leaving him at daycare because he cries and clings to me and it breaks my heart to go, but sometimes I will go peek in the window on my way to class and he's always playing and having fun. So I keep telling myself it's good for him to have social interactions :)

We're doing OB in class now and it's making me want another one so badly!

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thank you LWnurse!! that's just what i needed to hear! I do worry about spreading myself to thin but you're right the pay off is worth it!

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Are you going to have help, I mean 24hrs/ 7 days a week help..exactly that type of help? If not, baby can wait a bit longer! I too want to have a second child as my son is now 4, he asks for baby brother all the time.. I am in my first semester of nursing school, not working and committing all to school, believe me, there is not enough hours in the day..

I have a 4 years old son, we leave the house together, I drop him at a preschool, then continue on to my school...we come home at 5pm, I barely spend time with him, dad takes over, and I go on to read, read, and read..it is nothing like you did before..

I feel terrible for not being there for for him the way I want it...

At the orientation, they always say it's not time to have a baby while in nursing school..

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