How old were you when your *biological clock* kicked in?

[MakingTheGrade]

I''m still trying to figure out when I can even fit in a pregnancy, everyone I talk to keeps telling me there''s no good time in the medical career time line to be pregnant...sigh

I''m not on the clock, but I do want to have children some day, and wouldn''t mind starting earlier rather than later.

 

[LtlFirecracker]

Date: 6/29/2009 3:44:14 PM
Author: MakingTheGrade
I''m still trying to figure out when I can even fit in a pregnancy, everyone I talk to keeps telling me there''s no good time in the medical career time line to be pregnant...sigh


I''m not on the clock, but I do want to have children some day, and wouldn''t mind starting earlier rather than later.

I think you just have to make time as no one in the medical program is going to tell you to slow down. Most of the women just go to their bosses (weather it be the program director or department head) and tell them their due date.

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Date: 6/29/2009 10:02:45 PM
Author: LtlFirecracker

Date: 6/29/2009 3:44:14 PM

Author: MakingTheGrade

I'm still trying to figure out when I can even fit in a pregnancy, everyone I talk to keeps telling me there's no good time in the medical career time line to be pregnant...sigh



I'm not on the clock, but I do want to have children some day, and wouldn't mind starting earlier rather than later.

I think you just have to make time as no one in the medical program is going to tell you to slow down. Most of the women just go to their bosses (weather it be the program director or department head) and tell them their due date.

Yeah, I hear you just have to make the best of it. Haha, I've been reading the hysterical PS pregnancy thread, and now I'm freaked out that I'll be one of those women with 24/7 morning sickness and no control over their bladder, and end up puking and peeing all over a sterile surgery room when I'm pregnant..oy. Here's hoping I can still semi-function while pregnant. If it turns out pregnancy doesn't agree with me at all, I'm definitely going the adoption route for kid #2 (I'm 80% going to adopt the second child anyways, family tradition kind of)

I can tell you though, that the idea of not being able to work for a few months would really bother me..

 

[LtlFirecracker]

Trust me, most people I know are looking forward to the time off. One year of residency and you will change your mind on that really quickly.

I see every worst case senero possible. I would probably make people pass out in horror if I told my stories here. Premies scare me and really big babies scare me. So does the possibility of bed-rest for weeks on end or nausea the whole pregnancy. I know these things are rare, but I see more of that than normal pregnancies, so I am warped.

Oh yeah, the loss of control, I realized I would have to get over that because epidural=foley, and I want pain control.

 

[NakedFinger]

I would have a baby tomorrow if we were married. I am 24, will be 25 in July. I was probably seriously read at 23. But my FF and I have been together since HS, and have lived together since I was 21, so we have plenty of "getting to know each other" and "enjoy just the two of us" time. We could def start TTC right after getting married, however my FF prefers to wait a little more for "money" issue. While we make a fantastic combined household income, we both agree that I would stop working once having the baby. And i think the pressure for him supporting us is a little intimidating. He prefers to make a little more money by then.

Luckly, I am one of 6 kids, the youngest being 11, 7 and 5. So they were all born with me being old enough to enjoy them. So that helped with my baby fever ALOT.

 

[Dreamer_D]

Date: 6/29/2009 10:13:05 PM
Author: MakingTheGrade

I can tell you though, that the idea of not being able to work for a few months would really bother me..

Oh you will be working my friend, you will be working ! I am also a career woman, love my job, but being home is much harder work. Maybe not harder than residency, but the hours are similar!

 

[VRBeauty]

I was in my very early thirties when my biological clock turned itself off... totally. It was not heeding the plans I had made for my life.

As Hudson Hawk would say...

VRBeauty, over and out.

 

[atroop711]

Date: 6/29/2009 10:13:05 PM
Author: MakingTheGrade

Date: 6/29/2009 10:02:45 PM

Author: LtlFirecracker

Date: 6/29/2009 3:44:14 PM


Author: MakingTheGrade


I''m still trying to figure out when I can even fit in a pregnancy, everyone I talk to keeps telling me there''s no good time in the medical career time line to be pregnant...sigh




I''m not on the clock, but I do want to have children some day, and wouldn''t mind starting earlier rather than later.

I think you just have to make time as no one in the medical program is going to tell you to slow down. Most of the women just go to their bosses (weather it be the program director or department head) and tell them their due date.

Yeah, I hear you just have to make the best of it. Haha, I''ve been reading the hysterical PS pregnancy thread, and now I''m freaked out that I''ll be one of those women with 24/7 morning sickness and no control over their bladder, and end up puking and peeing all over a sterile surgery room when I''m pregnant..oy. Here''s hoping I can still semi-function while pregnant. If it turns out pregnancy doesn''t agree with me at all, I''m definitely going the adoption route for kid #2 (I''m 80% going to adopt the second child anyways, family tradition kind of)


I can tell you though, that the idea of not being able to work for a few months would really bother me..

my sis is an OB/GYN and she thought the same when thinking of missing work. After having her first, she loved the 6 wks off. No ridiculous call BUT she didn''t sleep much. She said the residency helped get her ready for the ON CALL situation of being a parent