Stigma about having kids?
So im about to graduate with my bachelor’s and am looking to apply to UD for grad school at their Lewes campus. I’m really wondering how being a mom will affect my experience here. At my current university it’s awful… everytime I go to meet with my advisor I need to bring my boys since my husband works and people avoid me and the stroller like the plague… im treated like i don’t belong here… people have called me a whore… it’s ridiculous. The professors have been mostly accommodating and my advisor is amazing. But geez the stigma around here about having kids is insane. Some people think they’re cute or whatever and that’s nice but I hate going through my day where im just making everyone uncomfortable and im avoided just because of a stigma. Sometimes a whole month will go by between me having actual human conversations with someone. There are two changing tables on the entire campus and one lactation room, which was booked for me during one of my classes but I would literally miss the whole class walking across a whole building and down two floors just to feed my child when a poncho would suffice in my opinion. I’d prefer not to have a repeat of this experience and I want to make sure this is going to be a good environment for me. Hoping to get my Masters in the Water Science program after I finish here in GIS.