This may sound long winded but i wanted to include everything incase someone can help/ has been through the same situation...
Hi, I am 22 years old and currently about to go into my third year at university (Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge, studying Zoology) and have found out i am pregnant. I am very early and am expecting my due date to be around end of April. However, my exams will be May/June.
I already have a little boy (3yo) and have already found studying whilst being a parent extremely difficult! (Have worked very very hard and have managed to average firsts though for both my first and second year :D).
I have lived on my own with my son these last two years but will be moving in with my partner this September (my partner is also a student at Goldsmiths university in London). We live in Hertfordshire and will both be commuting!
I have already found my university to be very unaccommodating to myself as a student parent so am really worrying about what help they will give me. I have spoken to a student advisor who said I can carry on this year as normal, have a few weeks off to have my baby (ive been told i can have maximum three weeks!), and then return for my exams. Obviously however three weeks off to have a child and then immediately return to my studies is not feasible. I would like to actually do well in my degree and do not want to waste two years of hard work and end up with a 2:2.
I have also been told an option is to defer my second semester. So i will return this year and complete my January exams, but not go back until Feb 2016, after my child is born.
I will not receive any maintenance money though if i become a part time student, only tuition fee loans!
Has anyone been in a similar situation or knows what i might be entitled too?! Me, my partner and my son cannot be expected surely to live on HIS student loan (which is for books etc, and the fact he will be commuting to london daily!). This means i will have to travel to univeristy for a whole semester while receiving NO help!?
Getting so worried about this im losing sleep, hope someone out there can make sense of this for me!