How late did you wait to tell your firm you were pregnant? I’ve read through previous posts and people seemed to tell firms early. I’ve been fine the first trimester. I was waiting to find out about a mid year review. Which went fine performance wise but wasn’t given a salary raise like I was “promised” for bringing up my hours. So no loyalty to give this firm any advanced warning than necessary except for my team I actually work with. I will be going out on leave right around my yearly review.

I told early (towards end of first tri) but it was more for my protection than out of loyalty to the firm or trying to give them more of a heads up.

I think there’s a big difference between your firm and the people you work with. For example, my “firm” only requires a 30 day notice before I’m out. I got a work from home accommodation early on though so I let HR know once I needed that. I’m glad I did too!! You can get info on policies etc. I told my team at like 12 weeks because I’m really close with everyone and trusted them. It just depends on office culture and what kind of pregnancy support you need both formally and informally!

I just had my 4th. With each of my pregnancies, except the first (when I told my supervising partner before my own family because of pure excitement) I waited until after reviews. Even with my 4th & as a partner myself, I waited until after compensation review time (putting me at 26ish weeks when I finally told anyone). It's no one's business & if you were going out for any other medical reason you likely wouldn't disclose that early before you would be out. Regardless of the culture of my firm, I didn't want any outside influence impacting my review/conversations regarding my compensation. Just my personal preference. I recognize I was very fortunate throughout my pregnancies that I felt well enough & didn't have complications necessitating telling people earlier.

I told my firm in my first trimester because I was feeling like trash and didn’t want them to think I was suddenly checked out because I was looking for a different job or something. Otherwise I would probably wait till it benefits you (whatever that means).

I’m on deal work side and I told them pretty early (second trimester) for my first pregnancy, my second I waited until closer to mid/late trimester but technically told people who I see on a daily basis when I started showing because there was no hiding it at that point.

I disclosed at 18 weeks because I was really starting to show and couldn’t hide it much longer. I waited until bonuses and raises were announced for the year before I said anything.

I am pregnant now and waiting until 3rd trimester! I WFH a lot so it’s been easier to hide it. I just want to make sure to make my hours before I leave and didn’t want people to stop staffing me prematurely (which happens a lot to ppl who announce they’re about to go on leave).

I waited until I was very obviously showing. I’m in a transactional practice where I don’t have many long term projects and for a variety of reasons I just didnt want to disclose until necessary. My advice is do whatever makes you feel comfortable.

I told at 20 weeks. I probably could’ve waited a while but it was stressing me out not sharing (I’m an oversharer and a talker lol), so it felt good to just have it out there.

I announced early because I had bad hyperemesis and looked sick. However, I do think it affected my raise and review. I was given a disappointing raise. When I tried to negotiate, I was told my work was “sloppy” for the first time even though I had been there for years and nobody had ever said that to me before. They knew I couldn’t leave and I think that’s why my raise was what it was because when I returned, I learned a new hire with significantly less experience than me made more than me. I left quickly after because a firm that takes advantage of the fact that I can’t leave to pay me less than a first year is not a firm I owe any loyalty to.

If there is any danger you might be fired, and you're not getting enough work, I'd disclose ASAP for job protection.

In law, with respect to your reviews, no news is good news. Your review does not sound positive.

I'd disclose now as insurance. Protect your maternity leave.

Maybe I’ve got it wrong but you’ve had a midyear review and weren’t given a raise you were promised for raising your hours? Are you already on a PIP?

I’d discuss with an employment attorney if I were you. If you’re already on thin ice being pregnant might give them incentive to fire you now so they don’t have to pay for your maternity leave.

I told a few people close to me early (around 12 weeks) and announced more broadly to my firm around 20 weeks after the anatomy scan.
The people I told early are people I like, I know from experience I’d want to tell them if anything went wrong, I wanted to help them figure out staffing for an upcoming trial so they wouldn’t rely on me, and it’s been nice having their understanding. I’ve also known people who disclose on the earlier side to get accommodations or to get legal protection.

Transactional practice, and I started telling partners that I work with most around end of first trimester bc I could anticipate deadlines or wanted to get them comfortable with transitioning matters. I then talked to HR around week 20 about policies and paperwork, then told group leadership around end of second trimester (to the extent they hadn't already found out).

I'm at week 30 now and had a meeting with grouo leadership last week about transitioning work, and rough consensus is to start planning transitions/tracking matters about two months out from due date.