I've been sowing the seeds for a promotion for the past 4 or so months (8 weeks pregnant) so well before I got pregnant. Luckily it happened first month of trying but now it puts me in a bit of a sticky situation with my promotion. My role effectively doubled in April and so I've been laying the ground work for a review of my role (including at my appraisal in June and during a meeting with my boss's boss a couple of weeks ago). Problem is I've just had a week off work due to horrendous sickness and I'm not sure how long I can hide it before a decision is made on the promotion.
There was a meeting last week about my role (which I found about from a colleague but that's just the way my boss's boss's boss's boss works!) so I may hear when I go back to work this week. However, given that officially I wasn't told about the meeting (although I told my boss's boss who also didn't know but agreed to look into it for me) I don't know when I'll get to hear. Our department is currently under review and the outcome will be know in September so I had hoped to keep quiet till them but does anyone else have experience in the public sector of decisions being taken because of pregnancy? Do I tell my boss after my scan (21st July) or wait? I know the public sector have to be whiter than white usually but the top boss is not exactly sympathetic to people in general so may take a different view of my position given this knowledge. Plus I could still carry on doing my job at the same grade and the same pay forever, it's not like I HAVE to have the promotion. It's just I feel it's fair given the doubling of my responsibility.
My job involves quite a lot of work with the public, out and about so feeling horrendous is not exactly helpful. Ironically I'm working with parents at the moment too so there's a good chance they'll spot the signs!!