Uni & TTC?

[princess_x0]

sparkswillfly thanks yeah I guess I'm just way too impatient. I have always been that way, wanting to juggle everything at once. I would be doing the access course aswell as being in full time college and working right now if I was old enough. I will give it a good think, but when I have my implant removed (the same yr as I go to uni) I shall just go on the pill and what happens, happens xxx

 

[princess_x0]

yeah, but i'm thinking if i wait until after uni, i will be entitled to a key workers house so then i will be more stable..
but yeah what ever happens, happens like i said lol xxx

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

Hope it all just falls into place one day

 

[princess_x0]

thankyou i hope it does for you hun

 

[Sam86]

Ok right so I'm back with my OH and it WILL work this time
But yeah, I have decided I want to do an access course next year and hopefully get into uni in 2011 to do a 3 yr course of midwifery. Thing is I want to start TTC with in the next few years! I will be going to be applying to uni of bedfordshire, only 20 minute drive from my house. I'm just wondering how hard this will be with a small child in tow. I know alot of people do it. I'm just wondering if anyone else has a child and has gone to uni? xx

You have sorta the same plans as me.
OH and I are getting married in April next year and he said we can start TTC then, because I'm wanting to go back to uni to study midwifery.
Our plans are to start TTC next year, have our baby(s), and me go to Uni once he/she is a few years old.

Lots of people do uni with children in tow, it'd be hard but you can make it work.
Good luck!

 

[princess_x0]

Oh yeah we do have very similar plans!
I like your plan better though hmm..
xxx

 

[Sam86]

aww haha. well, when i say we'll ttc, that is if OH still goes along with it. Whenever i mention anything he gets really scared and will say things like.. yeh.. but..we'll only try when we're BOTH ready wont we?!?! , or, we'll only try LATE next year IF we have money and IF i have a good job.
Grrr, make up your minddddddddddddd!!!
Whatever, i say. We're trying next year and THATS THAT.
haha.
OOohhhh i just want it all noooooooooow!!!!

 

[princess_x0]

Lol my mum's friend, her husband is disabled, idk what's wrong with him but sometimes he has to use a wheelchair. And she was desperate for a baby but he didn't think he would be a good dad because of his disability. So she pretended to take the pill and told him about a yr after the baby was born haha. He couldn't have been happier when she found out she was pregnant though! And now they're trying for another, been told they are having twins lol! xx

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

Lol my mum's friend, her husband is disabled, idk what's wrong with him but sometimes he has to use a wheelchair. And she was desperate for a baby but he didn't think he would be a good dad because of his disability. So she pretended to take the pill and told him about a yr after the baby was born haha. He couldn't have been happier when she found out she was pregnant though! And now they're trying for another, been told they are having twins lol! xx

That was very brave of her. Lucky he was so pleased. If i tried that i know it would so backfire on me

 

[princess_x0]

Lol but they are married, he can't exactly divorce her for giving him something he doesn't regret one bit haha xxx

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

Lol, very true. I'm feeling very chat happy today Wish someone else would post and break up my mass of posts.

 

[princess_x0]

Same here! Lol!

 

[Sam86]

I'm a bit late but HII! I'll break up the posts haha.
Day off work today, i'm full of cold.

Just been snooping around in the 1st tri room and teen room. I've come out all jealous and broody. waaaah

 

[princess_x0]

We all come out as a green eyed monster lol xxx

 

[princess_bump]

i graduated uni a couple of years ago now (sociology and criminology so slightly different) and it was tough and that was without a LO, but i think it is achievable, i no my uni had a nursery too. i actually taught access (before Maddi), though access sociology! and its an excellent way to uni, i did it the old fashioned way - gcse's-alevels-uni. anyway although uni is tough, you get a lot of time to study alone so if your structured i think with a LO its fine. really good luck

 

[princess_bump]

We all come out as a green eyed monster lol xxx

i no i do! one of my friends has just told me she's expecting and i'm so happy for her, but part of me thinks, oh i miss being pregnant and all the excitement of finding out, telling people and scans etc
and i was worse when we were TTC, no one i knew closely was expecting, but people at work were and i was like

 

[princess_x0]

i graduated uni a couple of years ago now (sociology and criminology so slightly different) and it was tough and that was without a LO, but i think it is achievable, i no my uni had a nursery too. i actually taught access (before Maddi), though access sociology! and its an excellent way to uni, i did it the old fashioned way - gcse's-alevels-uni. anyway although uni is tough, you get a lot of time to study alone so if your structured i think with a LO its fine. really good luck

Thankyou hun

 

[aSh_x0x]

i am also studing sociology and criminology at uni (what a coincidence to the post above lol)
anyway..im not sure if the uni's where u live have off campus students?
an off campus student allows you to complete all course content from home..therefore you would be able to look after your child and do your work without having to pay for the expense of child care plus u save gas money! which we all need to do =P lol

my cousin...fall pregnant this year and is having her first child next year and she is at uni...shes having to take a year off next year to get her and the baby settled. So maybe you could take a year off to get your self sorted, or go to uni part time?

theres heaps of choices for you so make the best one for you, but know that you have heaps of time to have a baby or complete uni, so dont rush anything

good luck!

 

[Angel21]

Hi Princess! Am I right in thinking you are 17? I really understand your wanting to have a baby, I really do. I have been desperate for a baby for the last 5 years, but during this time I have been studying, and only gained my nursing degree last year. There were moms on the course who had babies, and who got pregnant whilst on the course, although this meant that they had to intermit and their course took them a year or two longer than they hoped. I am now pregnant with my first baby after all that waiting and I know that now I have my degree and a job I will get all the maternity benefis I need (NHS isn't too bad!). But if you had a child as a student the NHS bursary is not very substantial, especially the means tested degree bursary
I'm not saying not to go for it now, I understnad how you feel, but you are still young, and have ambition, so maybe qualify as a midwife first, then have a baby?
Good luck in whatever you decide