Has anyone applied/ interviewed while pregnant? I'm actually planning to be on the market next year, and trying to figure that out in conjunction with figuring out when to try for a baby (except for the going-on-the-market thing, this is a good time, since I'm on a pretty flexible postdoc). It seems obvious that it's not ideal to be 9 months pregnant while interviewing, or immediately postpartum, but beyond that, is it better to try to time pregnancy so that you're not showing on the interview (but then the tradeoff is that you might be throwing up from first trimester nausea?)? Would looking visibly pregnant while interviewing be a liability? There's also the option of waiting until after interviews are over to get pregnant, but then if a job offer comes through, you'd be giving birth just a few months before starting a job. How often are schools willing to defer a hire's start date (e.g. to the following semester or academic year) in a case like that? Thoughts?
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