I did part-time study when DS was 2. OK, it was 5 days a week but it was only 10-3 with an hour for lunch.
Loved it. Homework was done when DS was asleep. DS is a poor sleeper so I would sit with him going to sleep and work on my netbook at the same time.
How to make it work? Pick something you can do in short bursts and love the subject. Make sure you really have support - DH cooking meals, cleaning house and doing bedtime while you study (I didn't have this, but had good nursery provisions.) Family around to "cuddle with baby" for an hour while you get cracking on work. A wilingness to turn textbooks into stories (Phil was a positive ion and Katy was a negative ion...).
If you can take your child to classes, great. I did that once or twice. But you can't take your child to the lab.
Defintely depends on the child. My LO is full on, and never had a sleepy newborn period, and stopped having day sleeps at about 6 months (thankfully she started again at 12 months some days having 45 mins to an hour sleep).
If you have some family close by who can help out to give you study time, this will be huge benefit.
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