Pregnant, need advise on waiting to have baby or looking for a job now?

[newRN6457]

Hello everyone, I graduated nursing school with an ADN in June, took my NCLEX a couple weeks ago and passed (yay!!!). Now here's my dilemma, I am almost 4 months pregnant long story short after graduation the husband and I decided to stop using BC and try to get pregnant again, since with my first child it took us a year to get pregnant we figured if it took that long I'd have enough time to take NCLEX find a job and get pregnant while working already. Well, our little surprise came really early !!!! Now that I have my license I don't know if I should just wait to have the baby, I'm due March and then look for a job or start now. But if I start now I'm afraid I might not even get hired since I'm pregnant( I am showing already) I know they aren't "supposed" to discriminate but they will ! And IF I do land a job I would barely make it to the end of training and then it would be time to go on leave. I have also thought if I wait I can always start my BSN program now and get 1 or 2 classes out of the way. I guess I'm just feeling torn on what to do ? Advise please, thanks in advance :)

[JJDina]

After I graduated from my BSN program my husband and I decided to start trying. He was deploying in June though so we didn't really think it would happen before then. Well, it did. I still applied! I figured I could work out something if I got hired, which I did end up doing. I have gotten pregnant at extremely unplanned times (my last one being after we moved to Maryland - I wanted a job right away but found out I was pregnant and it was high risk/complicated) - but 5m after having her I received a job interview! When they interviewed me I told them the reasoning for my recent gap in employment. The nurse manager appreciated it. And I got the job offer the next day.

If I was you, working on BSN stuffs would be a good idea! But still apply. Maybe look for something part time. You never know what might happen. Best of luck!

[UnaNayeli]

I can't speak as to whether you should apply for positions in these circumstances, as I'm not a manager and haven't been in your position.

i agree w/ the PP about continuing to show active learning participation if you decide not to work, though. That way, when you eventually interview, you can point out that you made the most of the situation by taking additional courses, or taking ACLS, etc.

Best of luck!

[Nienna Celebrindal]

I would try, but I can speak from experience x 2 (it just worked out that we relocated for once for hubby's work, and once for my RN program while pregnant) that no one would hire me as an LVN, and I had 8 years and 11 years experience either time. People absolutely do get jobs though so I would go for it, and I would especially look into the new grad programs, but I wouldn't bet on being hired. Hope for the best, plan for the worst ya know? Good luck!