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[quote=Anonymous]Good grief. It's against the law to fire employees solely because they are pregnant (not to mention that firing someone on the spot is incredibly costly and time consuming, and not something any families we know would willingly do unless there were concerns for their child's immediate safety). No, it's not at all likely that your employers are going to fire you immediately.

Assuming you otherwise have a good work situation, I would expect that you can work until your baby is born, barring any medical concerns or physical limitations. Certainly that's what we would offer as employers. After that it would really depend on the specifics of how much you wanted to work and whether you needed to bring your baby along. It wouldn't work for us (in a share) to add a newborn. It also wouldn't work for us to have our nanny go to part-time and have to find someone else to work the other half of the time. Those are both things you might want to do, and if so, you'd probably need to find a new job that was the right fit. Or you might have plans for child care for your baby and want to continue to work as usual after leave, in which case we'd work with you to find someone to fill in for your leave. If you know, that would be good to include in the conversation where you tell your employers about your pregnancy.

We did have a nanny who had to take a six-week medical leave, and it was hugely helpful that she worked her networks to find a couple of nannies who knew they had jobs ending and could take on the time she was gone. We interviewed and chose one, and she was terrific. It worked out for everyone, though I was definitely nervous about it in the beginning.[/quote]

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