Pregnant, Nursing School, and Full time LPN

[maui12886]

Hi guys, I was wondering if I could get some advice from those who've experienced this or something similar. My husband and I are pregnant and due the end of May/early June, which is two weeks after my graduation date, which also means I'm a fulltime nursing student in my last year of school and will be finished in May 2011. To add to that, I just started a job last week in a great LTC working F-S-Sun 6a-6p. Basically, I'm pregnant, a fulltime nursing student, and a recently fulltime LPN. I'm very excited and worried at the same time as I know this is very possible and really up to me in the end but I would just like to know that theres others who have gone through this and survived! lol....I'm very excited and can't wait as this will be our 1st, at the same time I want to do great in my last year of school and I so far I really enjoy my job. Any insight would be great! Thanks so much!

[jesskidding, LPN]

Not to be beating a dead horse, but you might want to visit your doctor to have a pregnancy test and have your suspicions confirmed. With the date you gave as your LMP, it should not be showing up on a HPT until at least 4-5 more days. You might want to find new "nursing" friends too. Just count a full 9 months, there is no need to add the extra month. You are just simply pregnant a whole nine months. The due date calculator was correct, you would be due around the end of March. You don't need to add another month to a due date calculator. The doctor would also use your LMP date to determine a due date for you.

[redessa]

I don't know what kind of calendar your nursing friends are looking at but February is the only month that is only 4 weeks. All the rest have 2-3 "extra" days which add up over the course of 9 mo. With the LMP date you posted, that would put you due at the end of March (I have 5 children myself and though some were overdue, I was never pregnant for 10 months).

So, honestly, I don't know how you can expect to finish your last semester if you are having a baby 2 weeks before finals. If I were you, I'd go talk to someone at your school about deferring your last semester at least.

[tsv1567]

Thank you all so much for your responses!!! and sorry I sound like a complete idiot...new nursing friends??? thats not so nice! . I believe I will wait for my Drs app to confirm my PT or anything else. Just to answer a few of the other ?s. If it is so, my mom will be watching my baby, since shes retired but refuses to stay home d/t boredom. Also, for the "what ifs" thats something that scares me and I often think about. My main concern has always been school for the most part as I'm almost done. If worst comes to worst and I have to quit my job then so be it, but school has always been a priority and I have to stay on track. There have been 6 pregnancies in the semester. 3 dropped out and 3 are still truckin along. Those still going at it have husbands in the army and didn't have to work, so that was nice for them. They all gave birth between this past May-July. Two of my friends had surgeries right after Spring break and missed 2weeks of school, thankfully the instructors allowed them to make it up during the summer. The biggest concern has always been missed clinicals and in my final semester we have our preceptorship, which is 11 days (12hrs), it begins in Jan and ends in March. So if anything, thats the biggest thing I might miss and I'm sure I can make that up in the summer if nothing crazy happens. 90% (1day missed) of clinical is required to pass. 80% (2days missed) missed and they'll work w/you. 75% (3days) you have to retake the entire semester again. Thanks again everyone!

On a side note, I've been at my LTC job for a week and absolutely love it, it took me 4 tries to find a good place and this one is it! 3 12s aren't too bad except I wished they werent back to back.

morphed: thankfully for the past 3yrs I've never had to cook or clean, I leave that to my husband. All I really do is nursing. I already feel like I don't have a life. Sat, Sunday are our hangout days for the past 3yrs and thats a sacrifice we both knew we had to make, although it sucks, thats why I have to finish ASAP! I have a wonderful husband who's been carrying my share of the load and never complains cause he knows this is only temporary. He's been great through it all. I've been on this crazy adventure for so long and I'm ready for it to end. I try to prevent burn out by doing my other hobbies on the weekends and staying as far as I can from home. School wk gets done right after school although I do procrastinate at times and work stays at work. Yes, I'm fearful that w/ a new baby everythings gonna do a 360 but I can't take anything back and if I am pregnant I definitely don't regret it. :)