Work

[Nmcl40]

Told my boss at 7 weeks I am pregnant. I'm the 4th person in the team that’s pregnant. Sometimes my job can active and setting up for events and travelling. Last week someone needed help with boxes and they just went 'any non pregnant people able to help with boxes and looked at me. At this stage I was 6 weeks along and felt I couldn't keep hiding it if they were expecting me to help out with things like this. Thankfully I got away with lifting a light box and we have other days coming up which may require similar tasks so I ended up telling my boss. He was very nice. I've asked him not to tell anyone until i get my scan at 12 weeks. I had an early scan at 6.m weeks and thankfully everything was healthy. Was this silly to tell them so early?

No it's up to you, but I'm a bit perplexed as to why you think you can't carry boxes. Normal physical activity is perfectly safe and in fact encouraged in pregnancy.

We were advised in work to not lift any heavy boxes when pregnant or back issues. Anything light is fine. I wasn’t using it as an excuse to get out of doing things.

I lasted until 8 weeks, unfortunately there are aspects of my job that you can't do while pregnant as set out in their pregnancy risk assessment (handling chemicals etc) and it got too hard to make excuses to dodge these. I'm now 15 weeks and don't think anyone knows apart from my manager, though who knows. I would like to keep it quiet for a bit longer as this is my second pregnancy; I had a miscarriage at 12 weeks with my first. I still haven't told any of my friends or family yet. Think I will wait until 20 weeks to tell anyone else, though I'm starting to show a little bit now.

Anyhow, I think it's better to just tell work and have any relevant risk assessments done etc. I feel more comfortable going to work now knowing I don't have to dodge doing stuff!

Yes I was just worried would they think I was lazy or trying to get out of doing things. Very happy to help in anyway just didn’t feel comfortable lifting heavy items that’s all as the other pregnant girls were told not to. I feel comfortable telling my boss. He said he would keep it under wraps until my 12 weeks