Could Lily have trained to be an Auror while Pregnant?

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 90583

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" wrote: ...But 
Lily was pregnant and had a baby.  Now I'm assuming the training 
program is very physical, like ...army boot camp.  Could Lily have 
had the time and the ability to Auror train, work for the Order, and 
carry and have a baby?...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

If Auror training is like Army boot camp, Lily would not have been 
admitted if she were, or became, pregnant during the "boot camp" 
phase (sixteen weeks or so, depending on specialty.) However, once 
you reach your first duty station, it's case by case. I have known 
clerks who began to swoon as soon as they pulled the plug on the 
rabbit, and signallers who were climbing towers in the field at six 
months. Ballet dancers, who often show not much more than a slight 
convexity over the tutu skirt at six months, are famous for giving 
birth practically in the wings at intermission.

Potions or duelling might be problematic, but if Lily's specialty was 
charms, arithmancy, runes or such, she could (if she were of sturdy 
English yeoman stock) give birth in the nurse's office during lunch 
and be back at her desk with the kid nursing in a sling in the 
afternoon.

Nannies, wet-nurses, infant day care... It's very doable, and has 
been done.

--JDR

PS: Please, nobody flame me if your pregnancies were difficult. I 
also knew women who had to spend six months in bed to bring a 
pregnancy to term.