Pregnant Pledge

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I don't remember running into this situation as a collegian or an adviser, but it is certainly one way to stand out at recruitment-- which could be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on the school and how conservative/liberal the students are.

There certainly were women who became pregnant when they were fully initiated members, but at my school, those ladies became alumnae or cancelled their memberships-- they left the chapter to get married and/or have their babies and didn't return to active membership.

I think it depends on the culture of the Greek System and university. A young mom could be a very good sorority sister. She'd probably be the one that came to the weekly meeting and did a lot of community service activities, and a social here or there... rather than someone who would be in a time-consuming leadership role or the life of the party at every social. Or not.

My friends with small children and babies do a lot of juggling and need their "me" time. So I would guess a sorority could fulfill those needs.

However, for me personally, if I was in that situation, I don't know that I as a new mom could relate to the hormones-raging traditional college activities-- and would probably only come around for the tamer sisterhood events. Also, coming from a traditional conservative campus, I don't think my Greek System when I was a student would give an obviously pregnant PNM a very competitive recruitment-- however, if the woman became pregnant as a member, I could certainly see her sisters being supportive and encouraging of her to keep her ties to the chapter (but perhaps not so much from the local advisers!)