Baby Now or Wait 2 Years?
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| who freezes eggs at 19?! |
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| If I wanted 2-3 kids and was in a stable marriage in my 30s, I would not delay having children. |
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OP, your choices are to either wait on the baby or wait on the CRNA. You want to wait on the baby. You do so understanding the risks -- it might be more difficult to get pregnant in your mid-to-late 30s than it is now. You may get pregnant easily with #1 and then struggle with #2. Your body may not be able to easily handle back-to-back pregnancies. Or maybe everything will work out exactly as you hope it will.
Your other choice is to have a few kids now and then return to get your CRNA when you're in your late 30s. You will lose some years of higher pay by doing so, but you can get through the grind of the early baby years before taking up what you admit is a challenging program. You've made your choice and that's fine. But I think the PPs are correct to warn you that your fertility will not necessarily last forever but that a CRNA program is always available to you. |
Anonymous
You obviously don't know what a CRNA is...hahah, be quiet. Not a waste of pharmacy education...I would love if my nurse anesthetist also had a PharmD. |
Anonymous
| OP, I would definitely wait. I had my two kids at 35 and 37 and got pregnant with both the first month of trying. That's not to say that will happen for you, but having a newborn while in school and working would be incredibly difficult. Two years is not a big difference. Good luck! |
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If you want multiple kids you should not wait.
But none of what we think matters if your husband disagrees. He wants 4 kids and wants to start now?? You guys need to talk. |
Anonymous
+1 PP certainly knows little about what nurses do. In my Level 1 trauma center, CRNAs are the ones who oversee many cases (e.g. adminster anesthesia drugs, insert arterial and central lines, intubate patients, and so on). I'm an ICU RN and just being a nurse is tough while being pregnant. You're on your feet all day long, are fielding comments from everyone about your pregnancy (for better or for worse), are at risk of coming into contact with harmful organisms and situations (I was pregnant during the height of the Ebola scare, admitted patients who had previously tested positive for TB, and was kicked by an aggressive patient while pregnant, for example), and so on. Good luck when your ignorant ass is the patient, PP. |
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+2 They tell you during CRNA orientation that those who succeed are the ones whose lives are stable in all other aspects. It's the kind of program that leads to divorces/breakups and problems in other aspects of your life if you're not prepared. The work is also not ideal for a pregnant woman (given the exposure risks from anesthesia gases and drugs, radiation, and the patients themselves [infections, moving dead weight], and so on). |
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Not having read all 10 pages -- I would say wait til you are 35. It's only two years. If you are lucky you'll get pregnant on the first try like I did with both of my kids. I had them at almost 35 and almost 38.
You don't need other stressful things while trying to figure out your career and going back to school. If you had a 1 or 2 yr old already I would say go ahead and go to school. But I think from reading the few pages I did, that you should wait. |
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| You should seriously wait. I am not in the medical field, but after hearing experiences, and reading up on a CRNA program, it sounds like it would be impossible to handle with a baby. Wait either for the second year or after you graduate. I had my kids at 33, 35, and 37. It isn't impossible. |
Anonymous
Op here. I found out two of my aunts had fetid it's issues. One was pregnant when they discovered ovarian cancer. The second had endometriosis at a young age. It was a preventive measure because I knew I always wanted children. |
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It took me 3 years to get pregnant with my first. School will always be there. Healthy eggs may not be.
Don't wait. |
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| Op here. Thank you for all the responses. It was nice getting first hand accounts from people who know what a CRNA does, and understands how intensive the program will be. My DH I feel wants kids because of the outside pressure ( family and friend getting pregnant). I don't think he realizes how hard it will be with a baby. We talked and decided that waiting to try in a year for my second year of school is the best option. I will try and coordinate with graduation, so I won't have to take a maternity leave so quickly at a new job. I want 2, maybe 3. He said 4 but I don't think that will happen. If only 2, spreading it out 2-3 between children is a better option for our careers. |
Anonymous
Smart post. |