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Job offer while pregnant

TLDR: I'm 6 weeks pregnant which puts me at an October 15 due date. Right in the middle of my first semester. Do I tell the committee before I have a signed contract? This is for an assistant prof TT position. 

Longer story: my husband and I have been trying for a year and its been a really tough journey that's involved surgery and a miscarriage. I was actually making the call to schedule our first infertility appointment and was waiting on my period.  Needless to say, I was NOT expecting this to happen. I thought we'd be doing fertility treatments for several months or longer. Anyway, did the pee test to confirm I wasn't pregnant and voila. I'm 6.5 weeks along and everything appears to be going well. The incredible morning sickness is a constant reminder lol. 

I am waiting on an official offer from one place and just finished interviewing at another and that went very well. So I'll have at least the one offer (heard from the director but upper admin is being slow). The second institution will take a few weeks to decide. I feel hopeful but not certain of course. They're both higher teaching loads but with a formal research appointment. I'm in applied STEM. Both places have faculty with young children and seem to be accommodating of young families. 

I don't want to hide my pregnancy and then have to duck out of my first semester of teaching and seem like I'm being sneaky. On the other hand, in the grand scheme of things I know this won't detract from my overall career. I don't want to scare them away but I also don't want to seem like I'm screwing them over. I don't want it to be like "oh she got an offer and immediately got pregnant to take advantage of the healthcare and leniency of academia" bc really we've been trying for a while. 

Any thoughts are appreciated! I've never been on the hiring end of things so I don't know how this situation would come across. 

Edit: thanks everyone for the info and support. I will be sure to read the maternity leave policy carefully. My current job has a situation where you're not protected until you've been there a year. My teaching load is 1/1 and the fall course has not been taught consistently for several years so I know they're really wanting someone to pick it back up. I wasn't planning on waiting long, but like many people have said, most people don't announce until the end of the first trimester. Thanks again for all the help! I really appreciate your input!!!

Edit 2: to clarify, I know 6.5 weeks is too early. But uni B has another interview after me and is meeting late next week to decide. Given the slowness of admin and negotiations it's entirely possible that a signed contract isn't done until tut second trimester. Uni a does not have anyone else to interview and has made an unofficial offer but admin is still slow so I expect that process to take a while, too. I didn't mean tell people immediately. 

Edit 3: looks like both universities have policies that require 12 months of full time employment to use FMLA so it looks like I'll be screwed regarding maternity leave. That fucking sucks. I've been paying into short term disability to not even be able to use it for its exact purpose. Wonderful!!
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1.  It's none of their damn business if you are pregnant or not 

2.  You should be able to look up the school's maternity leave policy online

3.  Life happens in academia.  Kids are born, professors die during the semester.  Things work out.