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I told my boss I was pregnant when I found out at 5 weeks! I didn't talk to him about maternity leave until I was 7.5 months pregnant. He pretty much asked me how much I time I wanted off (unpaid) and then said OK, done!

I discussed both at the same time. I wanted to introduce the idea as early as possible, so that I (and my bosses) could make arrangements that would best accomodate my plans.

ETA: I did a global disclosure (to all my partners) at 12 weeks.

I told my boss at like 8 weeks just so he knew why I was feeling under the weather, but we did not inform HR until much later (like 18 weeks.) I met with our HR rep about FMLA and benefits at 27 weeks to hash out the details and get my paper work ready for when the time comes. So I'm ready to go (but hopefully not until I get closer to my due date obviously!)

We discussed it first thing. At one month to my due date, we hashed everything out and put it all in writing.

I know my company's paid maternity leave policy, but I haven't addressed the fact that I plan to take unpaid FMLA with my boss yet. My company just went through a huge merger, and my boss is from the "other" company. I heard it was frowned upon in their company before to take the extended FMLA so I'm kind of dreading dropping that bomb. I will have 2 months paid, and then plan to take up to 3 more months unpaid. I know they're not going to be happy.

As soon as I got the Dr's confirmation and let my bosses and coworkers know. My situation was a little different because I was the only full time instructor and decided to go down to part time as soon as I came back from maternity leave. They needed to start working on my replacement immediately- it still took them until 2 weeks before my due date to get everything hashed out.

I'm in New Zealand and over here we have legislation governing how long we can take off for maternity leave (14 weeks for those employed between 6-12 months, 52 weeks for those employed more than twelve months).

We legally have to give an employer at least three months notice of the intention to take maternity leave but I started discussing it with my boss at around three months. Ironically enough even though I started talking to my Boss in March, I have less than eight weeks left at work and my work is still not any closer to replacing me!

I'm kind of overwhelmed about what to do about it. I'm definitely not coming back full time, maybe part time or maybe not at all, but I'm afraid if I tell them that they will cut my short term disability benefits, so I don't know what I'm going to do.

I told my boss at 12 weeks, and told HR at the same time so that I could get all of the details of my maternity leave. I've told my boss a million times that I'm going to be out for 12 weeks, but yesterday he tried to tell me that I only get 6. Um, no.... I get 12, thank you very much.
I'll do all of the paperwork to put things in writing in the next couple weeks (I'm 32 weeks now)