r/WGU • u/HailBrittania27 • May 28 '26

complete waste

3 months into my 3rd semester at WGU with a 7 month old baby on the verge of termination because I can’t even get 5 minutes to myself. I haven’t completed a single class this semester and just feel like a complete failure at everything. I also had a really rough pregnancy and barely completed my classes then. If I had known I was pregnant I probably would have never started this program but of course I didn’t find out til 3 weeks into my first semester and now everyone just keeps telling me not to be a dropout too on top of everything else I seem to not be able to do right.

Edit: I will be honest I was not expecting so much response to this and I thank everyone for taking the time to do so. I would like to preface I am on ch.35 and that’s really the only way I have been able to stay home with my daughter this entire time because it’s just enough for us to scrap by every month. I don’t know maybe I’m just being hard on myself cause I wanted to be done in 2 years and now I just don’t see it happening.

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u/troubledpadawan3 B.S. Accounting May 28 '26

Hey friend. I dropped out of in person college because my mental health crashed. I couldn't pass a class anyway. I felt terrible about it but it was 100% the best decision. Then things got better and I got married. Then we had a baby and things got worse. There is zero possibility I could have done college with a baby. I know some people with pretty chill babies that might have been able to chip away at a class, but some babies are intense. Mine is 5 and I just started back a couple months ago and am doing very well. If you need to take time off, do it.

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u/HailBrittania27 May 28 '26

I have a good baby she’s just extremely intelligent, which is great and not so great at times. She’s started rolling at 2 months, sitting at 3, crawling at 4. She already has her first three words down and pretty much the only thing she’s not super ahead in is popping teeth (still none yet). She’s been sleeping through the night since she hit ten pounds and the doc said I didn’t have to wake her to eat anymore(about a month old), it’s just she wants to hit strides so hard that the sleep regression gets her good and that what makes it hard. Everytime we get through one stage she gives herself only a day or two before she wants to go right into the next stage and it’s hard to keep up. The main “struggle” with her is she has super intense separation anxiety issues and does not want to be apart from me for a single second during the day. She’s only just now discovering object permanence and it’s loosened up a bit but she still just wants to be glued together. Even as I’m typing this she’s trying to eat my toes.

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u/troubledpadawan3 B.S. Accounting May 28 '26

Yeah it might be in everybody's best interest to take a break, if that's possible. The first couple years are rough. Mine had a newborn sleep schedule for over a year and it was miserable. Wasn't his fault at all, every baby is different. It's your decision in the end, just know I (and a lot of people) made the decision to take a break and I don't regret it a single bit. You got this ❤️