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[quote=Anonymous]If you want to stay put until the end of your maternity leave, then I feel like you are a little ahead of yourself right now.  Certainly start looking around, go on informational interviews, network, build your resume.  Plan to apply and interview during maternity leave.  Tell your current employer after you have accepted an offer from your new employer-to-be.

FWIW, though, I think there's a huge difference between interviewing for a new job while pregnant because the ideal job has just opened up, and going out looking for growth opportunities.  If your current job is ok (i.e., bearable, secure, flexible enough to support your family obligations) then baby's first six or 12 months seems like the time to stay put.  For me, an unusual opportunity opened up while I was heavily pregnant; I felt I had to jump on it so I interviewed.  I ended up taking a promotion at my old job instead (for which I interviewed while on maternity leave).  In hindsight I'm very glad not to have had to learn a new organization, and to have been able to rely on existing relationships and reputation, while I also learned to manage my new family.  My two cents.[/quote]

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