Personally I can’t help you. Professionally I can. I have a friend who had a child while we were in school. There was a lot of changing between the hands of all of us. I also suggest finding an infant center of some sort. If you can find a 24 hour daycare then that will be great. Also find out if your job can help with daycare. You may have to find a babysitter too.

Complicated. While when a baby is born more contact with the mother is important for bonding and stuff. So for a healthy childhood lots of motherly love is needed during the “fresh months” Like right when he is born. But Then again education is important to support the child in his older years. So try to balance as much time with the growing baby as possible. Like cradle him while you read your text books. Things like that. It helps. Also it would well relax you since school is stressful. Any time your father has off have him develop an early relationship with your child so when he has time to babysit the baby wont be so aggitated. Sometimes babies like when they are 1-3 years old they get nervious and scared becuase they dont recognize the person. Lol. I get that alot from my brothers babies. I dont see them very often. 🙂 But as others said you will need Infant Daycares. Make sure they are good!! I am paranoid. I would be checking everything out. You can tell I am gonna be a paranoid mom. Lol. 🙂

You can do it, but it will be very, very tough. Your most important decision, is how to balance your child’s needs with your own. If you have a family caregiver available, like a mother-in-law, then it will be easier. Holding even a part time job, going to college and properly raising an infant is an impossible set of requirements for any human being to do. You may have to pick 2 out of 3 to survive. Or…. stretch out your education until daddy returns home. maybe just take one course this semester . Whatever you do, your first obligation is to do a terrific job being a mom,.

See if your school has on site childcare. If youre married to the dad than you should be able to get your child into childcare on the militry base (a lot of them are open 24 hours) or look into 24 hour or after hour care around your school or home. You will have to either cut back your work hours or school hours…I personally chose work hours. I take my son to the on campus daycare w/ me when I go to school and when I get out of class ( i attend 4 days a week) I go to the library 2 times a week and pick him up afterwards. I work only on days I am not in school so that I do have time to study and spend time with the little guy.

It’s going to be quite taxing on you….but it’ll all be worth it in the end. Good Luck and congrats on the little one. : D

Have you checked with your school to see if they offer any classes online, that way you could have more time to spend with your baby and pursue your degree. Also after you have a child I’ve learned from friends you get quite a bit of financial aid which may help you not have to work as much.

I hope it all works out for you good luck and congratulations on the baby!

unless you find full time care for your baby ( which i wouldnt recommend cuz you would have to be away from the baby as soon as hes born) other than that youre probably gonna have to put school on hold. When having a baby your life will get 100 times harder and you will have to make compromises, some you may not necessarily like.

Depending on household income, you may qualify for help with child care expenses if you don’t have family who are available to help you with that. Apply for financial aid at Kent State and you may be able to get by without working so you will have time for studying and time to spend with the baby. Talk with friends and relatives nearby to see how much they will be able to help you.

God bless you and best wishes for a healthy baby and success in school

I hope you realize that if you want to find work with in the psychology field you are going to need at least a masters, and better yet a doctorate. You probably are going to give up your waitressing job. But you probably could qualify for financial aid. Have you submitted a FAFSA form? I would do that immediately.

Some have mentioned getting your child into a childcare program, but almost none of them will take newborns. Maybe it would be best to wait a couple of years before starting in on this.

Either

(1) get a lot of student loans and go to school full time, but don’t work

or,

(2) just take one class at a time until your child is older and then finish up being a full time student

once you r baby is born put your baby in an infant center while you go to school and work