2L year I worked remotely at a job that was a conflict of interest with required clinic work, so I took 2L summer off work. The only real logistical issue with my daughter was that she had to wait a little longer than my son for her daycare spot to open and my professors were not even remotely flexible, so I had to switch to as many night classes as I could. Mondays I had a couple day classes, so my husband and I took turns taking Mondays off for a few weeks. I was off for two weeks between my daughter’s birth and the start of the semester.

I’m much closer to home now and my husband is WFH so I’ll probably only take a few days for the hospital stay then work remotely til I get the staples out with my clerkship baby.

Bonus to having kids in law school: after 1L year you can make your own schedule and you have winter and spring breaks, so I got to spend a decent amount of time home while the kids were infants.

My partner and I are both graduating in May 2022 (law school for me, masters for my husband) and I’ll turn 34 just before that July’s bar. I’m worried about pushing off having kids too long because we’d like to have more than 1 and waiting until at least a year into working will push my first pregnancy into the spooky 35+ zone. Neither of us were ready for kids before I decided I wanted to go back to school in 2017 but now I’m feeling the pressure of not thinking about this for so long. My husband starts his program this fall but will continue freelancing part-time throughout and is very reluctant to plan to have a child while we’re both in school. I think this is completely reasonable and also unfortunate because it takes a 3LOL baby off the table (at least for type-A planning purposes, I realize you can’t plan everything!).

Am I crazy for thinking that a late summer baby before an October (or January) start date could work? I’m in a secondary market with a low but rising COL. We have a solid community of friends but no family living nearby, though we have 3 semi-retired grandparents who might be able to fly in for a few weeks each.

I was pregnant last spring during my 1L spring semester aka the Covid semester. I miscarried the baby at the end of the first trimester but will chime in to say: my first trimester was exhausting; i was tired, nauseous and emotional. My saving grace was that the exams were pass/fail and didn’t count. I am going to try and be pregnant for 2L fall and Winter OCI because of timing reasons (i am in my 30s) but I wouldn’t discount how hard a first trimester is on the body to say nothing of experiencing a loss (which messed me up emotionally) or infertility. Some things to consider:
your 1L fall semester grades and if your grades suffer Fall 2L, how well do students with your grades and soft factors do at OCI in your school?

I’m the same age and basically in the same situation (just finished 1L year), so following along here as I am seeking the same advice! (I also posted a separate comment below seeking advice particularly noting the changes that have been made to OCI and law school as a result of COVID-19).

I just finished my 1L year, started law school at age 28, am married, a homeowner, and thinking about getting pregnant during 2L (like in a few months) or 3L.

The issue for us is that our whole plan got upended due to coronavirus. I wanted to wait until OCI was over so that I wasn’t pregnant at OCI (worried about discrimination) and so that I would have a job lined up.

But now instead of OCI being the summer after 1L, it has been pushed back to early spring of 2L. In addition, since 1L spring grades went pass/fail, now 2L fall grades matter in terms of OCI and job prospects as if they were 1L grades.

So we’re sort of back to square one as to whether or not to get pregnant this year. Thinking now we should wait until after OCI spring of 2L, but that really pushes back our timeline here, especially if OCI doesn’t go well and I need to keep job searching. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated!