Small Office - when do you tell your boss?

i work in a very small office. most of the time it's just me, but some days its me and my boss. i just started here about a month ago too.

i'm having a hard time deciding when to tell him that i'm expecting. i'm 8 weeks.

i wear these atrociously large baby-doll like tops. not sure how much longer i can "hide" it.

when would you say something?

TIA!

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I know how you feel. Iam about 8 weeks and iam already starting to show. I have a doctors appointment Thursday, so if all is well then I will be telling them on Friday. I dont know why I feel so scared to tell them!

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yeah, me too since its basically just me who does a lot of the things around here - AND i just started

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I work in a small office too, only 4 people including my boss. I felt I had to tell the day after my 6 week appt. I was showing, I know I was just bloated but I couldnt even suck in!

I dont really know what to tell you bc you've only been there a month, but they definately can't do anything about it, based on your pregnancy. If you didnt go to the dr yet I would wait until after that. It's not like you did anything wrong, your having a baby!! GL!

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I work from home, but see my bosses occassionally at meetings and so forth. I told them at 16 weeks.

This may sound a little sexist so forgive me, but do you work for a man or woman? In my experince, men don't notice the baby bumps as quickly as females do. I thought i was huge at 16 weeks, but my bosses (males) truly had no idea, yet my girlfriends kept saying to me, how did they NOT know.

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hhmmmm - interesting. my boss is a man, but there are women here who do not come in but once a week. i see the cleaning lady every day and she has a BIG mouth ( i heard from the person i replaced). and she looks me up & down every single day. no manners is what it is, but i suspect she'll suspect soon enough.

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I am 9 weeks and have my last RE appointment tomorrow and my first ob-gyn appointment next week when I will be 10 weeks.

I do not work in a small office, but I have had a lot of complications which has caused me to go to a lot of doctor's appointments during work. I really think it would be easier if they knew!

My plan is to tell at some point after my first ob-gyn appointment when I am 10 or 11 weeks.

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with my last pregnancy my boss figuerd it out on her own at 5.5 weeks.

i was actually glad she knew b/c god forbid anything went wrong i know she would have been incredibly supportive.

but i work for the county, and the women i work with are giving birth left and right so i was never afraid of her reaction.

i am not the type to keep it a secret. i think it depends on how you are.

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Posted by headoverheels

with my last pregnancy my boss figuerd it out on her own at 5.5 weeks.

i was actually glad she knew b/c god forbid anything went wrong i know she would have been incredibly supportive.

but i work for the county, and the women i work with are giving birth left and right so i was never afraid of her reaction.

i am not the type to keep it a secret. i think it depends on how you are.

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I work in a very small office. I told my boss at 12 wks. As soon as I told them I started showing about a week later.

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I told my boss really early, like 6 weeks. I was really sick at the beginning and we were leaving for a vacation and I didn't want her to think I was just slacking.