Help! Guests have bought booze - nice fizz

[Chchchchangeabout]

I am a known lush. They will definitely notice if I don't down a few glasses. What do I do?

Really don't want anyone to know about the pregnancy as it's such an early stage. If they guess they will say so as not discreet of nature.

Help!

[Lipsync]

Say you're on antibiotics or any drug you can't mix with alcohol. Or just pour a glass and take it with you into the kitchen to check on the food all the time. Can your other half cooperate and swap glasses?

Congratulations!

[Stubbed]

Say you are not feeling well. Act unwell. Don't pretend you are on antibiotics everyone will guess.

[Goanddoapoothen]

Tell them you are on metronidazole for tooth/kidney infection?! Definitely cannot drink whilst on that stuff. Or empty your glass and refill with schloer type drink?!

[Saltedcaramel2014]

Another one for the glasses swapping! We did that lots. And congratulations x

[Chchchchangeabout]

Thanks for the congrats!

can say I'm ill but don't think they will believe antibiotics. Or that I wouldn't drink a bit anyway, if ill or on antibiotics.

I will look out for chances to make wine 'disappear' but they may be slim as we have a kitchen/diner where we'll all be sitting.

[Chchchchangeabout]

Thanks gor all the suggestions. Glass swapping may be a possibility... Will have to be v careful if don't want to be caught though.

[StirlingParty]

I am a lush too, but wouldn't drink on metronidazole- it makes you puke. It's prescribed to keep people off the drink.

I was prescribed it for tooth infection, btw.

[iwantgin]

Can you keep topping up your champagne with sparkling water or lemonade so it looks like you have a fizzy drink at all times ?

[Chchchchangeabout]

That's interesting about the magic antibiotic. Will save that one up for the future. Won't get away with it tonight as would look v odd I hadn't said before.

Topping up also a good idea and will look for opportunities. Still tricky when all in same room though.

[crazycatlady82]

This old lush went into hiding! Glass swapping sounds good as does the metronidazole - you even need to give it 48hrs to get out of your system once you stop taking it! I gave it 24hrs and was so ill I couldn't go to work the next day

[RitaCrudgington]

Nobody in the history of the world has ever believed a woman aged 25-40 who says she is on metronidazole unless they are actually the GP who prescribed her the antibiotic.

[Cupoftchaiagain]

If u take pour yourself a glass and visibly drink some of it then no one will ever notice that u aren't keeping up. Unless, that is, someone suggests shots (hanging with the wrong crowd ;) )

[Alanna1]

I used sparkling cordial in your situation. Worked a treat.

[Cupoftchaiagain]

U could alternatively, say u have cystitis and the alcohol is making it worse, nobody wants to hear any more grisly details after that!

[BarbieBrightSide]

Put your glass to your lips a few times and take the smallest of sips. Take it with you to the kitchen etc.

I survived a week long work conference with no one but my manager knowing by sipping but passing on the refills, and because everyone else was getting drunk and I didn't actually refuse any alcohol no one noticed.

[BarbieBrightSide]

Oh, and congratulations!

[Gumblossom]

congratulations chchch! I think the anti-biotic one actually works a treat. I used it myself a week or so ago, when I'd just found out I was pregnant, was on a work junket with a friend/colleague and we had talked about getting on the wine running up to the conference. I told her I'd just been diagnosed the night before with a UTI and was on strong antibiotics. She accepted it easily, and I am also known for my love of bubbles.

Let us know how you get on.

[Gunpowder]

Be seen to sip after a toast or two and then take your glass to the loo and pour away. at the waste tho!

[Stealthpolarbear]

ou don't need to glass swap as such , after a small sip put yours down somewhere and prone dh to drink it after a little while. if he's challenged he just thought it was his

[goodnessgraciousgouda]

Well if you are a known lush, then just tell them that you have a massive, crippling hangover from the night before when you saw work friend/people they would have no idea about/people who you have completely invented, and you really can't bear drinking tonight.

[newbian]

I wouldn't buy antibiotics as an excuse for a second. Why would someone who was so sick that they were on antibiotics have me over to their house or go out for drinks?

When I was TTC I either:

• said I was on a low-carb diet so not drinking
  
• said I'd had a massive night out previously and couldn't handle a drink
  
• sipped extremely slowly/pretended to sip and had DH cover for me
  

I had a friend who loves a drink come over and she went for soft drinks only. Knew that meant she was pregnant but didn't make a fuss. And I acted surprised when she announced a month or so later. If they're really your friends, they will probably suspect. Keep the excuses to the minimum.

[Snowflake15]

Just bring the glass to your lips but don't drink it, and always be the one topping up everyone so they will assume you're doing yours too - I got through many work do's using this tactic and when I revealed at 20 weeks everyone was shocked, saying 'but you were drinking!?' you'd be surprised how little people pay attention

[NoArmaniNoPunani]

Shloer is a good cover up for bubbly.

[Jcee]

As someone said upthread....cystitis

I pretended that was my problem and I had to lay off the booze or I'd end up with a kidney infection...kept that up for 4 months and no-one suspected despite me being a bit of a lush!

[Ragwort]

A few discreet sips or even a glass or two really isn't going to cause the baby any harm - the anti drinking in pregnancy 'advice' has just gone too far - it's aimed at people who regularly drink a bottle of vodka most nights. .

I didn't even know I was pregnant for the first ten weeks and had been drinking 'normally' (for me) all that time 2-3 glasses of wine most nights.