Pregnant Yet Interested: What are your thoughts?

[Wonderful1908]

This was a good thread! Heated but discussed in an adult manner. Before we had to shut down all the foolishness. I love greekchat, but I wish we could get down like we used to without all the crashers or hurt feelings!

***Update from my previous post, we finally got married this past July. ***

[1savvydiva]

Originally posted by Wonderful1908

***Update from my previous post, we finally got married this past July. ***

Congratulations!!

[iceandivy]

I had a baby 2 years after graduation. I pledged my junior year. I never could have completed the process when I was pregnant. Especially the first few months of my pregnancy. I see how people pull it off unnoticed because I didn't show for almost 8 months. I just don't think it is safe. Even though with MIP there are no real physical limitations, it would be difficult to participate fully. Or it would have been for me.

That is of course... my opinion. And we all know that opinions are like @$$-holes. Everyone has one... some of them stink.

[Wonderful1908]

I had to bring this one to the top again!

[Confucius]

I just read this.....I didn't have a clue that the last post was in 2003!

[AKA2D '91]

LMAO!

[RedefinedDiva]

Since it's rare that people use the SEARCH function and bring old threads back to the top, I usually don't look at the dates. But when I started reading the thread and saw the number of pages there were, I saw that this thread was about four years old.

LOL!

[ladygreek]

We had two pregnant women on our last line. One had her baby three days before initiation and she never missed a beat--okay except for those few hours they keep you in the hospital. We were just happy she didn't go into labor at initiation - lol.

[SummerChild]

Soror, I responded to your PM about another matter.
SC

Originally Posted by RedefinedDiva

Since it's rare that people use the SEARCH function and bring old threads back to the top, I usually don't look at the dates. But when I started reading the thread and saw the number of pages there were, I saw that this thread was about four years old.

LOL!

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by sankofa15

I just saw this topic in another forum and was curious on your take on the situation.

HC AKAtude edited this post??? What did she say?

[LadiBug]

Actually, a friend of mine was pregnant when she went through her MIP; however, she did not know. Her graduate advisor was livid because she did not want it to appear that the woman who were joining the organization did not uphold the goals of the sorority (at least that's what my friend said). Another friend of mine was actually 8 mos pregnant when she finished her MIP; however, she is a married woman. I would think if a woman was married, and she happened to be with child, that it would be fine for her to seek membership (especially since the graduate chapter is by invitation only).

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by LadiBug

Actually, a friend of mine was pregnant when she went through her MIP; however, she did not know. Her graduate advisor was livid because she did not want it to appear that the woman who were joining the organization did not uphold the goals of the sorority (at least that's what my friend said). Another friend of mine was actually 8 mos pregnant when she finished her MIP; however, she is a married woman. I would think if a woman was married, and she happened to be with child, that it would be fine for her to seek membership (especially since the graduate chapter is by invitation only).

[PinkDIAMOND]

I dont see why MIP while pregnant should matter. If you are dedicated to serving your communtity and feel as though you have something to offer to the organization then what difference should it make. There have been sorors who have done far worse things than getting pregnant who have pledged and were great assets to the sorority.

[Little32]

^^I think that she mentions the stepping specifically because of the physical rigor of the activity, which might impact a pregnancy; not because stepping is the central focus of being in an organization.

I don't know where I fall on this question. I was recently talking to a cousin who, once upon a time, had organizational aspirations. She has two small children (under 5) and she was saying that it was too late for her. While I don't think that it is too late--I had linesisters in their 50s and 60s--I do know that if I were in her place, I wouldn't try to pledge right now. The time commitment of being new to an organization (let alone an MIP) would have been something that I would not have wanted to take on with two young children and certainly not with a new born. But that is my personal preference.

I might add more later. I have been thinking about this question since this thread reappeared.