I think this isn't as insane as it initially sounds but welcome other views:
Am unexpectedly pregnant with DC2, and am currently a student. For family financial reasons, I really need to crack on and finish my course as have already had a year off with number 1. DC2 is due at the beginning of a 3 week holiday, and as I have gestational diabetes I know I won't be going over my due date. There is then a four week block of 9-5 lectures, before a 10 week clinical placement, before a four week study leave block and a four week holiday.
I keep thinking that a) I could take the baby with me for the lecture block on days DP is working. He does shifts so often off weekdays. (Huge, dark lecture hall- I'd sit at the back and wouldn't disturb anyone- of the baby cried I'd take them out. A baby that young is realistically going to do nothing other than eat and sleep.)
B) If DP saved his annual leave and paternity leave and swiddled his shifts we could then just manage the clinical placement. It's only three days a week, the baby would be between 6ish and 14ish weeks old.
c) I'd then be on study leave for a month and off entirely for a month, which would get us round to almost five months, which isn't an unreasonable time to start nursery? PFB didn't go til he was 13 months as I could be off but I know a few little ones who started between three and six months and it doesnt seem to have scarred them.
The alternative is to take another whole a academic year off, which is doable in terms of the course but just makes everything else harder. We're stuck in a tiny flat in an area we hate and cannot move until I'm qualified and working, which is three more years if I don't take a break.
Am I mad to think just gritting teeth and cracking on will be best? I don't know what to do.
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OopsIAteTheWholeToblerone · 21/07/2015 13:20
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