Studying with a baby

Yup, it's through SIT. I've emailed the course facilitator already and she seems nice. She was able to recommend which papers to do when - very helpful! I would definitely say do as much as you can before baby arrives because, personally, when Chloe was newborn, I would never have been able to handle study. I'm sure there are some supermums out there who can do it though.

How unlucky about the early childhood thing! I'm sure you'll get a chance to go back to it at some point though. We just have to be creative when we have babies.

This is what I *was* going to be studying too but am not just doing the full time course with another place not by correspondence! *sigh* DP didn't want me sitting on my butt like this year and felt if I did correspondence I would just leave it to the last minute and get distracted and not work, he also said if I did correspondence he expected me to work too! Pfft, men.

with a newborn - really easy. when they get a bit older and need more it gets a wee bit harder. with 2 really young it gets harder still but totally acheivable. i have quite laid back kids though #2 is a horrific sleeper, #1 wasnt too bad but certainly wasnt sleeping through the night til 6-9 months so he wasnt one of those wonder babies. i deal with sleep deprivation well.

best peice of advice though. get rid of your tv. sounds stupid but we dont have one and i dont really waste much time. me and DH spend heaps of good time together, the kids are too young anyway and dont even know they exist and i dont sit down in front of it at the end of the night. i do what needs doing round the house and sit down to study then toddle off to bed. we have laptops so can still watch dvds or download from the website so its not like we missing out. i just found i wasted way less time, and when time has to be prioritised well its a real easy fix to make sure you dont waste it ;)

dont beat yoiurslef up bout small things either. we are a cloth nappy, fresh food family but if i had exams or anything the kids often ended up with jar food or disposables and TBH i didnt care one bit, lol.