Telling Employer

[eboyd83]

Has everyone told work yet? I was just wondering when I should, like how long is too long to wait? I haven't even told people yet.

Thanks,

Emily

[singingsea]

I had to tell my manager as soon as I found out for safety reasons (driving a fork lift, heavy lifting etc.) So it just depends on your situation.

[mrsjene]

I told my employer at 12 weeks after the NT scan.

[pismoduo]

I told my direct supervisor at about the 8 week mark. We have a LOT of deadlines in early October, and I wanted to make sure I had someone assigned to be my backup as early as possible to keep that person in the loop. Shortly thereafter, I had to travel to the corporate office (where my supervisor and most of my team work from) and usually there's a lot of happy hours, etc, while I'm out there. I had to beg off several times, so I eventually just ended up telling everyone.

I'd say it depends on your comfort level. For me, I'm not really showing much yet, so it's easy to keep it sort of under wraps.

[kerbear]

I just told mine last week (and announced last week). I was waiting for a raise to come in and I didn't want them knowing I was pregnant before knowing the outcome of my raise. Once I found out the outcome, I told them 3 days later and then announced publicly a few days after that

I'd add that I think you should tell your employer before announcing publicly, in case it gets back to them in a roundabout way. Just my 2c

[sodapop]

I told my boss at 6 weeks, so I'm no help, lol. I told her because we're pretty clause and imhad to miss a few days and was not feeling great. We told everyone after my 12 week ultrasound.

[lexisophie55]

Depends on the situation.

We told (and announced) last week. 18.5 weeks. I do have projects that will be due during my time off and I did feel bad about waiting as long as we did. However, I could not tell my employer before announcing. Too many small town connections. In the end - it all works out!

[getzystark]

Definitely depends on your situation. I work in an office and aren't exposed to safety or health risks so I could have waited a long while before telling anyone (probably not until I started to really show at around 16-18 weeks).

My office is very small and close, so they knew the Monday after my BFP. My boss knew a week later. However she knew we had gone through IVF, as did my entire office and everyone was very invested in my fertility journey, so it was definitely a special situation.

[LadyNymeria]

I told work at 14 weeks. I originally just wanted to wait until after my NT scan at 12 weeks, but then I waited a couple extra weeks so I would get my bonus for 2015 before telling them.

[Deleted]

I had to tell work as soon as I found out because we have a lot of cytotoxic patients.

[beckyrosen]

I'm not working now, but when I was pregnant with DD I told my boss at 8 weeks. I wasn't going to be working full time after DD was born so I wanted to give them plenty of time to find my replacement.

[lpj]

I told my boss at around 10 weeks. There is no way I could still be hiding it now haha! I feel like a house already.

[eboyd83]

I finally decided to tell a few people. I'll let it just trickle it's way around the office gossip chain.