Not sure if this is the best place to post, but after some advice...
I told my boss that I am pregnant (purely because he called me into a meeting to discuss restructuring and that he wanted me to become a team leader, so I felt I ought to let him know). I said I was informally telling him, and that I didn't want anyone else to know yet and that I'd formally tell work when I was further along (I was 12 weeks).
Boss congratulated me, and reassured me that my job was protected, the team leader role was still mine to take, and explained any further recruitment would be below my level.
Today boss cornered me and said he wanted me to tell the office manager so that she could start looking at recruiting my replacement. He wants to take on someone at my level, who would fill the team leader role. I was slightly gob smacked as this was the opposite of everything he'd said.
He has assumed that I'll take a few months off, and that I'll then go part time on my return.
No idea where he's got that from. My current intention is to return full time after six weeks and for husband to take shared parental leave...
I'm still only 16 weeks so a lot could change. I think he's jumping the gun wanting to recruit someone already. I think it's unfair that I'm effectively being replaced when I haven't even gone yet.
I don't want to tell any other colleagues, and don't want him to either.
I also want to avoid being pushed out.
Have I got any chance of stopping this happening? AIBU to expect him not to recruit/protect his business??
For context, I worked with him for 10 years at previous company. Then she he set up on his own, he recruited me first. There are now 10 of us in the company.