Would you?

No. I worked a full time job in nursing school and barely had time to sleep. I couldn’t imagine pregnant with a 1 year old in the mix as well. However, if you do youre a beast and more power to you!

i would because it won't be for too long but you wont have a social life

I have done it/am doing it, and it’s extremely difficult, my marriage almost ended because of the stress. BUT I am now in my final semester of getting my BSN, I have a beautiful 5 year old and now 1.5 yr old, still married, now working both a full time and part time job, and come December I will be done. Would I do it again? Probably not. But I think it all depends on what would be most beneficial to your family. I’ve been going to school since 2018, I refused to give up despite the stress because I know having my BSN is going to only benefit my family.

No nursing school is so hard. I saw women that did complete this but had it way harder then me & most fell behind and graduated at the next cohort.

Personally no!

Working full time sure, tending to your child doable but adding pregnancy to the mix and doing them all at the same time whilst in nursing school just feels like you are setting yourself up for failure unless you got to an online school, then maybe it will be doable. But also you can do anything you really put your mind to, but would you really want to willingly put yourself through all that stress

I’d say one of the things would be doable but not all of those odds against you. Nursing school is a beast. It’s hard and awful and like no trial I’ve ever experienced before.

That sounds brutal!

Hi Teresa! I hope you’re doing well. I recently went through this for one year during my bridge program and wanted to add a little bit of my experience.

For me, in the program I was in (small community college 1.5 hours away from my residence due to lack of accelerated nursing bridge programs in my city) I graduated with my original cohort, on time, however the nursing administrators were especially hard on me and I believe it is because of my pregnancy. I unfortunately had a target on my back the entirety of the year because I was pregnant when I found out I was accepted in the program, had the baby the last semester, and had to go through postpartum the last semester as well.

The college was informed I had a few medical complications with my pregnancy. I was told I was “not special” and otherpregs were working as nurses so I was not allowed to sit down just because I was pregnant, even when I was heavily pregnant at clinicals. I was not allowed to make up any clinical hours online

(2/3) delay exams, and I had to attend didactic and Clinicals for the same amount of hours or else I would be dropped from the program. Oh, and I was told that I absolutely had to give birth when we were on a break between semesters or else I would be done.

I was also berated by one clinical instructor for the entirety of a semester, and when brought up to the administrators nothing came of it and she is still a clinical instructor to this day. She would tell me that it isn’t the time for me to be going back to school and I should come back when I was not pregnant.

I believe that had I taken the initiative to make sure that the college would have been fair and understanding to my situation, I would have been in a much better spot mentally.

I absolutely believe that you are able to do it, it will be hard work regardless but I would definitely look into the rules administrators may have in place. You are already doing the world’s hardest job, and you are doing it beautifully. 

Full time and nursing school alone is too much. Take care of yourself college is already there 🤍

(3/3) just kidding yall, I have one more part to this comment loll. As someone who went through a nursing school and then a bridge program thereafter, I would make sure you are aware of their attendance policy for both didactic and clinical before committing. When I was pregnant, I unfortunately contracted Influenza and COVID (I got very sick with COVID and was out for 1 didactic day and 12 clinical hours, influenza was managed with Tamiflu) and the administrators told my didactic teacher that I was on the verge of being kicked out.

Some people will just want to dim your light, but I really admire you for wanting to go back to school. 

No that’s way too much. Especially while pregnant.

I wouldn't do it. I finished my bachelor's when I had a 2 year old and it was hard. I did it online and after he went to bed for the night. I also had all that you have except I wasn't pregnant.

Maybe instead of nursing school, why not try something that you can do online in the medical field. Maybe something like medical coding and billing or something like that. This would get you into the medical field and then once life slows down a bit, go back to school for nursing. Im betting a lot of your credits would transfer into whatever discipline you want to go into.

It’s nursing school or work. Because you can choose between the two however you can’t choose between being pregnant and taking care of a toddler. You and your partner will have to make sacrifice, while you go to nursing school and taking care of o kids.