I am currently just 5 weeks pregnant with child no. 2. The pregnancy has come as a bit of a surprise, and much sooner than I thought it would, as we tried for 7 months before DD was conceived (she's now 18 months). We knew we wanted her to have a sibling, and given that we're not super young, decided to start trying, thinking that it would probably take some time. My thought/fears was that it could even take years, given various factors of mild PCO and other recent complications, which made me think I wouldn't be that fertile. But lo and behold, the first week without conception, and boom, two lines on the pregnancy test. So, of course I am over the moon (although it's still early days, so still holding of the final acceptance and realisation until the 12-week scan...) more than anything, but I have to admit that I have not completely thought through what a second pregnancy and child would entail. This may sound weird, but I suppose that my fear of not being able to have another child was so strong that I just decided to start trying, without looking at the implications f a possible immediate pregnancy in detail.
The ting is that I am unhappy in my current job, mainly because I have been it for 5 years, have learned all I can in the position and the company structure offers absolutely no means of advancement from that particular position. Further, the working environment is difficult. So I wanted to move on for quite a while, but then that was delayed by my first pregnancy, I took a year of maternity leave, and have now been back for 6 months, feeling more fed up than ever and realising even more that I need to move on if I don't want to completely stagnate. If I stay in my current job during the pregnancy, I guess I could apply for new jobs from the maternity leave, but the thing is that I tried that at the end of my last maternity leave, and found that many places were awkward about me applying or maternity leave, they acted as if I was applying from a place "outside the game" and regarded me as not serious once they found out, and I also found it very difficult to have time to write applications with a child at home all the time, whereas I have a bit more free time while DD is in nursery and the second one is still not here. I am worried that if I stay in the job, I will never be able to move on, and will get stuck in my current job forever, or at least for a very long time.
But my dilemma is...isn't it seen as morally wrong to apply for jobs and go to interviews while pregnant and not revealing it? If I revealed it, chances are, I wouldn't get hired (I know it's illegal to discriminate, but they can always say other candidates were more qualified and it's impossible to prove that the reason you weren't picked is pregnancy) and if I don't reveal it, wouldn't it just be a very bad start with a new employer? Anyone has experience with this, or with applying for jobs from maternity leave?