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I was two days shy of my 1 year anniversary with my company when I gave birth. That said, I gave birth 3.5 weeks early, so I thought I would totally be in the clear for collecting short term disability on my LOA. My company actually had to talk to
Our corporate office to make sure I would qualify for job protected leave (they ended up using my PTO to cover the two days so it was as if I was still "working" until my one year).
Just make sure you know your company's leave policy!
My company is super thrilled that I'm even coming back to work, so I would say it all worked out in my favor

um, i went through a major stressful situation since my pregnancy was unplanned and i had been looking for a job for almost a year. i interviewed at this place a year ago, didn't get the job then, but they seemed to want me and said they would be posting another position in a few months......well they posted it in April - literally 2 weeks after i found out i was pregnant. I decided to apply again since there was still 7 months to go in my pregnancy (my due date was November 6). In May they contacted me for an interview, the interview ended up being near the end of June. I didn't tell them in the interview i was pregnant (4.5 months at that point). Mid-July they offered me the job and said my start date was mid-August!!! So I accepted the job, told them i was pregnant and managed to work exactly 13 weeks (had my last day yesterday). Since i worked 13 weeks, I qualify for a paid leave and i am taking the whole year i am entitled to!! I cringe thinking about it, but i really truly didn't plan things way and it is my dream job. Once i go back in a year, i fully intend to not get pregnant again for at least 2 years lol. I want to work there longer than i am on mat leave. That's just life though. I've struggled a lot with the whole situation and how much time i should take off etc etc. In the end, i finally realized the job WILL be there in a year, but this year off with my baby is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Not to mention my boss pretty much told me she expected that i would take the full year even though i initially said i would only 4- 6 months. And it's easier for her to find a replacement for one year than 4 - 6 months.

@JoJoGirl: lol ya. I guess I should have mentioned that part. I'm in Canada and a year for mat leave is the norm. The fact that my job pays me on top of it is a bonus of the place I work for. They pay me for the first 6 months I'm off anyway, but I still get government assistance the whole year, just not as much.

I was here almost 3 years before I started my mat. leave.

Bumping.

I clerked at the firm the summer of the bar, so I announced the pregnancy to the partners about one year after being in the office and went on my leave 3 months before I hit the 2 year mark. They've been very supportive and accommodating through appointments, my leave, and pumping now that I've returned, thankfully. It sounds like yours may be the same.

@lawbee11: I don't think you should worry... Def don't plan your life around it just b/c you're afraid they won't like it! I would have been at my job for 1.5 years when I take maternity leave at the end of this year. I would not have cared if I was giving birth even sooner! Tis life!

@lawbee11: Oh lol I didn't even look at the date! Wow, that's AWESOME!!

I am a unique situation - I started a new job 5 weeks pregnant. I made the choice to tell them I was pregnant (as opposed to not) and they ended up offering me 8 weeks paid maternity leave as part of my incentive package. I was not pursuing new employment at the time (I had interviewed with them a year prior, declined their initial offer, and they said they were still looking to fill the position I interviewed for and wanted to make another offer), which gave me a lot of leverage.

@lawbee11: I worried a little, but not much. I started my maternity leave almost exactly one year and one month after starting my job. It was fine. We were TTC while I was job searching and when I got the new job we took a few months break to make sure I would qualify for FMLA. The first cycle we started back up we got pregnant! We cut it pretty close, I was so afraid I'd deliver early! Due date was April 15, 1 year work anniversary was March 5.

ETA: haha whoops. I should have realized this was an older thread too, since you already have a baby