When did you tell? I know people tell early in the event of extreme morning sickness or if their job is strenuous or dangerous to a pregnancy. I haven't been sick and just work in an office, so I can choose to tell whenever. Getting nervous about it!
ETA: I am 12 weeks now and have to tell within the next 2 weeks... I have a doctors appointment in 2 weeks, and can't just go to another appointment with no explanation!
bananas / 9229 posts
I was about 16 weeks when I told. I waited until my annual review, just out of convenience, but I wasn't showing enough for it to matter. A coworker told that same day and she was 12 weeks at the time. She was showing a bit and super sick so that might've been why.
pomelo / 5607 posts
I don't have a paid job, but I have a volunteer "job," and I told after we heard the heartbeat a second time at around 11 weeks. At that point I felt pretty confident that things were going well, and I was starting to show. I figured I'd rather tell early and have it be less awkward than waiting until it was really obvious.
coconut / 8854 posts
I think I told my boss at 8 weeks, although I'm friends with my boss, and we hangout outside of work.
grapefruit / 4110 posts
I was somewhere around 20+ weeks for this pregnancy (30 for one job). And for the first I told my boss before (IVF treatments) but then moved to a new supervisor and didn't tell them until January (due in April).
cherry / 223 posts
We tend to have a few beers in the office on random Friday afternoons so everyone found out when I was only about 10 weeks along because I didn't have one. I had been planning to wait until at least 12 weeks.
nectarine / 2280 posts
Someone else told her when I was around 13 weeks. She then came over to me and said something about my boobs looking bigger. 
kiwi / 742 posts
I told fairly early because I had just started and wanted to explain why I needed to come in late in the mornings. I didn't want to seem like I wasn't serious about the job.
pineapple / 12793 posts
I told very early. Five weeks with my first and nine weeks with my second. It's only the two of us so my year long an absence really affects her work and project load.
nectarine / 2797 posts
9 weeks last time, I worked in a different location than her and she happened to be on site so I could tell her in person. Not sure this time, new job but still different location from boss.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
Super early like by 6 weeks bc I was not feeling well and my boss could tell something was off.
pomegranate / 3658 posts
13 weeks, after we told the extended relatives and before we announced on FB.
pomegranate / 3595 posts
This time I told at 13 weeks after my appt at the end of the first tri when we heard the heartbeat again.
First time I told at 9/10 weeks because I was being offered another position (I hadn't applied for) that was not compatible with pregnancy and leave. Second time (ended in m/c at 12 weeks) I told by 9 weeks because I was showing already.
persimmon / 1495 posts
I told my bosses at about 6 weeks but that is because I was a teacher at a therapeutic school for kids with severe autism, and we had to manage some pretty serious aggressive behavior.
pomelo / 5258 posts
With LO1 I told about 15 weeks. With LO2 I told the same boss at 6 or 7 weeks because I had to pass off some project-related duties due to pregnancy.
cherry / 105 posts
Literally right after I made my appointment with the OB, my boss was the second to know (so about 5 weeks). I was expecting to have tons of appointments with both the OB and MFM, so i wanted her to be aware. We didn't tell our parents until 6/7 weeks given our history of stillborn and high risk pregnancy.
ETA: I work for a small family owned company, which made a difference, too. I wouldn't have told that early at my retail job.
eggplant / 11287 posts
I don't remember for my first pregnancy, but for my second I told at 12 weeks.
apricot / 390 posts
I told my boss at 10 weeks, but we are close and I actually wish I had told her earlier. I waited until almost 14 weeks to tell my dept manager and the rest of the team.
persimmon / 1367 posts
I.told my boss around 15 weeks. I actually would have waited longer, but I was working in a correctional.facility and needed him to know that I wouldn't be responding to certain situations anymore. I never announced to my employees, just let them figure it out. I showed pretty late and they're all male so I was past 30 weeks before they started really realizing!
grapefruit / 4418 posts
I waited until 20 weeks. I was starting to show more and we had a work happy hour so I didn't want any speculation from anyone before I told him.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
I told my boss and friend coworkers at 12/13 weeks. I still haven't told my entire team.
honeydew / 7303 posts
My first I was interviewing for jobs and told at 22 weeks after I accepted an offer. My second I told at 13 weeks
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