So I'm in a bit of a pickle at the moment.

I'm a trainee body piercer and I've only been there for a few months. Now I'm pregnant and pretty much showing, but I haven't told my boss! He's actually been away for 2 weeks so I'm worried when he comes back it's going to be obvious.

As a body piercer I'm employed as a sole trader so technically, I'm not an employee at all - I'm self employed. So I don't get the usual protections employees do. I get paid a comission for each job I do and the view is that each artist there is using the premises and paying part of their fee for that privilage.

I really don't want to lose my training because this is something I'm very excited about and I want to do, well, forever! But at the same time I don't want to return to work when bub is very small. I've never had to tell an employer I was pregnant before and I have no idea how to go about it.

Help?