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[quote=Anonymous]I'm also a fed and told my boss at around 3.5 months.  I was also worried about a negative reaction because my office is constantly short staffed, but everyone was supportive. I know they were not happy to have me out for 3 months but it is what it is and they were happy about the baby.  Hopefully, you will be pleasantly surprised like I was.  I decided to give a lot of notice so that we'd have plenty of time to work out coverage for my account and no one would feel like I blindsided them or left them in a lurch.  I busted my buns that last month as well to get a ton of stuff done and have everything set up for someone else to take over!

Not sure about the FMLA, but definitely talk to your HR.  I ended up doing annual, sick and comp time to cover three months so I didn't really do anything special but I was told that if I had wanted to use FMLA I would have had to fill out paperwork for it and get approval since you are going on leave without pay.  Also check on any guidance on how much of each type of leave you can use.  Other fed friends of mine had told me that they had used 12 weeks of sick leave but I was told by my HR that I could only use 6 weeks of sick leave unless I had a doctors note or had a C-section (which would have given me 8 weeks).  I was under the impression that each agency had discretion on that so perhaps you can use more sick leave depending on where you work.  Good luck and hope it all turns out well for you![/quote]

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