Small Company with not-so-great maternity leave
This is my first ever post, so I am not sure how this will even go but I really need help with this:
I started working at a company and just hit my 90 days. This company is extremely small, only 5 people work here in total. I am the only person that is within childbearing years. Also, there are only 2 women including myself as employees. Everyone else is married into the family or a long-term friend of the owner.
When I was interviewing for the position, the owner and I discussed maternity leave needing to be included in my job offer. Previously, I worked for a different small business of 100ish people but was burned out and really needed something different. My husband and I are beginning to discuss our plan for having children and building our family. The job offer was only 2 weeks of PTO, 1 week of Sick time, and maternity leave that the owner felt was "very generous" in his words. This maternity leave included 1 week off and 1 week work from home. I was so desperate to get out of my previous job and had been unsuccessful finding anything else, so I felt like i needed to take it for my own mental well being. Since we are a small company, there is no FMLA or STD offered. I would say the owner is definitely one with an old school mentality and is out of touch. He is not a bad guy or anything, just seems stuck in his own mindset of how things should be and made it clear that he felt what he offered I should be please with and was generous.
How should I go about talking to him about maternity leave? Before we start trying or after I'm pregnant? Start looking for a new job now? I know I should have pushed back about the maternity leave in the job offer timeframe, but like I said, I desperately needed out of my last job that offered nothing and sucked the soul out of me for years and this is where I am at now. There is no way I am returning to work 1 week after pushing out a child. Just looking for advice on what to do.