Work early in pregnancy

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Hi
I found out I'm pregnant today! The next few days are all tightly packed together with a lot going on. Other half doesn't even know yet!
Wanted to tell my hubby in a couple of days on his birthday, but have a very big week at work coming up which is likely to involve some heavy lifting if things were normal.
I'm assuming I should tell my boss discreetly so there's no pressure, but is it wrong to tell him before I tell my hubby!?

If your pregnancy is that early, and you have no history of miscarriage, why are you worried about lifting things next week?
You are pregnant, not disabled!
I was an anaesthetist in the days before we had devices for transferring patients onto operating tables.

When pregnant, I lifted the “top end” of every patient’s stretcher to get them on and off tables - up to forty heavy lifts a day on a minor surgery list. Pregnant women all over the world work in heavy subsistence agricultural jobs, or pick up heavy toddlers multiple times a day.

Reckon that's a touch insensitive Babdoc, I never claimed to be disabled I was merely asking a question to people that I thought might reply with something helpful from their experience. Whatever happened to supporting one another rather than making someone feel daft for asking a question when they're in this situation for the whole time.
I'm lifting heavy furniture probably all day on Monday, I'll be sure to remember that, as you say, I'm not disabled.
Thanks

I really wouldn’t worry OP you will be fine to lift things

Lifting is no risk whatsoever to the pregnancy at any stage. Later in the pregnancy, when the hormones have loosened many of your joints, the risk of lifting is that you might hurt your back, not that the baby might be in any way imperiled. Your usual lifting should be fine at this stage.

Congratulations!

How early are you? If it's super early, I wouldn't make the decision to tell someone I didn't want to about the pregnant based on having to do some lifting. It's a long 10 months and you should be in control of who you tell and when rather than be "forced" into it by circumstances. Depending on how far along you are, it could literally be the size of a dot, lifting something isnt going to impact it.

Good luck!

Congratulations on your pregnancy. Do what feels right to you. I’m not sure I could hold off telling my partner for a few days to be honest!

Congrats!
Do what you feel most comfortable with op.
Although I would be telling my DH before my boss.

I told my employer pretty early on (at about 6 weeks) because I was feeling good awful and felt unable to work as much overtime as normal. I'm so glad I did because it really took the pressure off. If anything has gone wrong with the pregnancy, I'd have wanted my boss to know anyway, as I assume I would have wanted some time off.

As for lifting, I don't know the science off it, but I was told during my pregnancy risk assessment that o shouldn't lift anything heavy and should avoid repeated bending, stretching or twisting (unlikely in my job anyway - I'm a secretary!) So if you're worried about the lifting then I'd tell your boss - they'll have standard advice/policies for pregnant women and hopefully that will give you some assurance.

If it were me, though, I'd tell my partner before my boss. It'd feel wrong for anyone else to know before him. That's only my personal feelings though.

Sorry, that post was full of autocorrect, but you get the gist!

Tell your husband! Tell him now. Its his baby too

I would tell dh first, personally.

As an employer, I have been told about pregnancies before husbands on two occasions. One of the husbands was abusive, though, and in the other case, the employee was really confused about whether she wanted to keep the baby or not, so they both wanted support in different ways. I'm pleased to say that the first employee subsequently left her abusive husband and the second one went ahead with the pregnancy and now has a gorgeous little girl.