Anyone retrained and survived a degree with little one?

[super1971]

Hi am considering retraining but not sure whether this is the right time and wondering what others experiemce is ?

Hi , although not actually retraining - and not actually me, I thought I would share my experience. My DH is taking a part time MA (1 day per week at uni and 20+ hours plus (more like 30)!! study time evenings and weekend, AND IT IS HELL... My dd will be 2 next month, and he doesn't get to spend as much time with her as he (or me) would like. He does bath her and put her to bed every night but then starts studing until the early hours - and then has no time at the weekends for us to be together as a family. I am finding it very hard to cope as DD is always with me. And DH is finding it all very stressful and tiring.

If you can manage to study during the day only (not sure how old you child is) then I would say go for it - but it is hard if it takes up evenings and weekends etc.

hope this helps - sorry if it sounds negative - would actually preferred if DH had done it when planed - when I was pregnant as although DD would have been born - she was much easier to look after as a baby as she is now..

am not retraining cos i had no training to begin with, but i am now doing a degree. have 3 kids who are 6, 5 and 1 (had baby at end of 1st year, am doing 2nd yr part time). is definately do-able

Started my 4 year degree when pregnant with dd1.
By the time I finished also had dd2. Still got a pretty good degree (2.1).

Yes, you can do it. You do need to be fairly organised.

DO IIIIIIT

my mum did it with me. she started when i was 5 and my sister was 3. it was a 4 year full time degree course and she got it. it was hard, as far as I remember, but we got used to it and I still remember having to be quiet around exam times so mum could revise.
not sure there is ever a right time.....i'm not even sure doing a degree when you're 18 (as I was) and have no commitments is the right thing to do if you don't really understand yourself or have any idea what you want to do for a living...
hope it works out for you.

Doing an MSc while working full time and have a 4 year old. She gets incredibly clingy at the moment because, despite having her daddy home full time with her, she gets to see very little of me especially during those weeks before coursework is due.

I do my best to go to uni while she is asleep/in nursery/at her grandparents, but there is still at least one day a week when I leave before she's awake and get back after she's in bed.

If you do go ahead, make sure everyone in your household is aware of what changes will have to be made in terms of taking on more responsibility for housework, the likely stress on you and your need for some 'me' time. Good luck