Advice on announcing pregnancy to employer

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Help I need advice on how to tell my employers i am pregnant again

Have been on maternity leave following a stillbirth at 25 weeks in June 2021

Paid leave is up at the end of March, after which I go on to the final 13 weeks of leave which is unpaid. This would mean a provisional return date of end of June.

I'm currently nearly 15 weeks pregnant again, I didn't really want to have to announce this so soon to employers for obvious reasons but they have been contacting me wanting to know my intentions for returning to work.

Officially I don't need to let them know until end of April but I'm keen to get this sorted out as it's causing me a bit of stress, I'm overwhelmed with knowing how to tell them, dates, options etc. Also who to tell, my line manager or HR.

My due date is 9th Aug and I have also accrued 45 days annual leave whilst on leave which I am keen to not lose. Can I run one period of maternity leave into the other but still use my annual leave somehow?

Would appreciate any advice on how to approach this as I'm really not good with this sort of this and as soon as its resolved I can chill out...

Thanks in advance

Were you on SMP?
If you are getting no pay in some of the weeks of 17-25 of pregnancy then your maternity pay would be affected as thats the weeks that determine how much you will get.

Yes on smp until March 24th..maybe I could still qualify for maternity allowance instead then? Just not sure what to do for the best

Anyone got any other thoughts? I would really love to address this whole thing ASAP.

1. You will be entitled to 12 months Mat leave.
2. SMP, use the gov.I’m calculator www.gov.uk/maternity-paternity-calculator to work out the key periods for pay.
3. Based on 2. Plan when to take your annual leave, I hate to say it but you may be a bit late as I think this will mean you ending mat leave early to take annual leave from 1 Feb until end of March. This is to be eligible for SMP.
4. Check out maternity allowance eligibility www.gov.uk/maternity-allowance/eligibility plan annual leave so it gives you 26 weeks pay in last 66 weeks.
5. Work out when you want to start second Mat leave.The calculators above will give you the earliest date.
6. Another option is to use current mat leave then take 45 days leave (+BH) then start mat leave again. You may sacrifice SMP to get this.

1. Phone HR asap and talk it through, a good HR will help you to do what is right for you and advise what you can do to get SMP/Maternity allowance.

Congratulations
HTH

Do you want to go back to work at all, are you looking at ways to not go back in?

Or are you looking for the best financial option?

Hi guys, thanks so much for the advice, it's very helpful and I really appreciate it...i suppose I was just a bit overwhelmed about arranging when to go back, what I can do financially and how to tell them...I think I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and have a good chat with HR..wish me luck lol

I got pregnant 12 weeks postpartum. I didn’t say anything at first because I genuinely couldn’t be bothered. I just sent a random email to HR and cc’d in my manager saying I’m pregnant and showed them my MATB1 form. I told them what day I wanted to go on maternity leave and that I wanted to carry my leave over until the next year, that was it😂 my manager was under the impression that I’d be back in two months but it is what it is. Just let them know in your own time, don’t worry too much about it. I also plan to leave after this maternity leave is up anyway!