Pregnant in nursing school

target98765 · Oct 17, 2015

This is all great, but make sure you take care of yourself!! If you happen to have an operating room rotation make sure you tell them you are preggers. Many anesthesia gases should not be used in the presence of a pregnant woman. Other than that good luck!! I am sure you will be successful!! :-)

Hmfog · Oct 18, 2015

Yes! Absolutely...my program has a protocol for pregnant students, and they encourage you to tell your instructors pretty much immediately.

This is all great, but make sure you take care of yourself!! If you happen to have an operating room rotation make sure you tell them you are preggers. Many anesthesia gases should not be used in the presence of a pregnant woman. Other than that good luck!! I am sure you will be successful!! :-)

ambr46 · Oct 18, 2015

You can do this! I was 37 had been trying to have a baby for six or seven years and then I stopped trying while doing the LVN to RN bridge, got pregnant, worked nights weekends, graduated and had the baby 2 weeks later. Your significant othet is going to really buck up though during this time.

Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN · Oct 18, 2015

I was pregnant with my first while in nursing school. She was 10 months old when I graduated. She was born on the first day of spring break, so I had that week, and then I took another week off. I'd finished most of my clinical shifts before she was born, so I only missed class. I did keep up on my own though; I took two patho tests when I returned -- one I'd missed on respiratory/acid base balance, and the one everyone was taking on renal.

I read her my patho notes instead of stories. :laugh:

Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN · Oct 18, 2015

If you happen to have an operating room rotation make sure you tell them you are preggers

Good advice. I didn't have to leave the OR because of gases, but they did one of the procedures under fluoro. I had to wear a 50 lb lead wrap-around apron, plus the collar for my thyroid.

NurseGirl525, ASN, RN · Oct 19, 2015

I have a nine year old, so that makes it easier with studying. Toddlers would be hard. I'm 10 days out from my miscarriage. I got pregnant September 10th. I was exhausted for several weeks. I have ob/peds this semester and that's it, but 4 hours of lecture on Mondays and a wacky clinical schedule. I was out by 7 or 8 every night. I am fortunate to have the best boyfriend in the world who brought me dinner and took care of my kiddo with what he needed, but he's also pretty independent. I graduate in May and my baby was due June 3rd. It was kind of perfect timing for me. I was going to have the baby and study for NCLEX. I am moving next summer and we kind of moved that up with the baby, but like I said I have awesome support and I was barely going to have to lift a finger for the move.

I am planning on taking NCLEX next August and having a job by September at the latest. I was trying though to time it where I wouldn't have to work until the baby was sleeping through the night around 4 months. That was going to make it easier on my boyfriend.

My baby was not to be and you have to do what you have to do. It's kind of hard to take back being pregnant. Lol. Hopefully, you have the support you need. I have a great support system without being pregnant with my son. I have great friends who help me out with my son and watching him when I can't be there. My ex helps out also and so does my boyfriend. I also have the support of his whole family especially when I was pregnant. They would have helped big time also. My boyfriend is in the family business and their offices and warehouse is located on his parents property so we could have taken the baby over there whenever we wanted.

Make sure your kids understand that mom is going to need quiet study and homework time. It's going to be a balance. I make sure I make time for my son every day. Today we played basketball and took a long walk. I had a case study and studying earlier today and he did his thing while I worked. I gave up on the perfectly clean house also.

Things are going to go wrong. Especially in the beginning. It's all pretty good by the third semester I am in now. I write everything down in my planners. Those and dry erase boards are my best friends. One girl gave birth over the summer while on break. She is struggling a little this semester but she's making it. Another girl gave birth during last semester in the LPN program. She had to redo that semester because she missed clinical. She came in 3 days after giving birth to take the final. I have no idea how she did that. Another one who was pregnant dropped out of the LPN program. It is hard. I know you don't want naysayers, but it is hard. She didn't have the support that others do.

It's how you plan and the support you have. It's not going to be peaches and roses. If you can plan well though, you should be able to make it.