Good lies for newly up duffed and post mc person.

[IreneHeron]

Please let the wisdom and experience of Mumsnetters help me get through the forthcoming weeks.

I've got two or three lots of friends coming to stay with me over the next few weeks. I'm sure they'll be expecting me to be on the booze as usual. Trouble is I'm newly up-duffed and had a miscarriage last year when I made the mistake of admitting my pregnancy and then having to tell everyone when it ended. How do you hid a pregnancy from very eagle eyed mates? I'm also terrified of another mc.

hide not hid sorry.

Can you say you are on antibiotics? If you drink whilst you are on metronidazole you would be v v v ill.

Ps. You would be on it for some kind of dental infection if you need details!

Good one Melies.

And would inventing back pain get me out of running? Or is it ok to go running? I've got a new mate and we've just started training together.

You might as well wear a 'baby in board' tshirt than say you are on antibiotics. Everyone knows what that means.

accept a drink but keep 'losing' it. Be kitty holder so that you always go to the bar. After they've had a few no one will notice.

If you can fake a hangover (v easy with morning sickness) all the better

Good luck.

Ahh, perhaps the pouring wine into a plant pot trick will be the thing to do. Or vodka fizzy water. Might have to enlist DH's support.

That's what I did at a work lunch - had a glass of wine and a glass of water and never drank from the wine - no one noticed!

Congrats on the BFP. It tastes pretty grim, but straight tonic is a good way of hiding the non drinking - provided you normally drink gin or similar? If you are mixing it, just make sure you aren't witnessed pouring them out...

Agree with potplant on the antibiotics - just sends out pregnancy alert signs to me.

New year detox? Combined with the fact that you're exercising, could you say that you and DH are on a health kick? DH would have to play along though.

If it helps, you can normally keep going with the same level of exercise that you were pre-pregnancy, providing that you feel up to it of course.

Congrats Irene am in the exact same position and there was a discussion on one of the mc threads Will see if I can find the link but basically it gave a list of drink sub ins - G&T without the G, Ginger ale in whiskey glass, grapefruit juice for wine, virgin mojito, etc Hard though when you are sharing a bottle of wine. Last time they guessed in about 10secs of me sitting down so despite wanting to keep it to myself I think it will come out! I just won't tell the butcher this time!

My two tactics were:

• saying that you wanted to lose some weight, no one goes any further after that for fear of being rude!
• take a drink, pretend to sip it and then lose it

If its at your house and you are serving the drinks then can you go to the kitchen alone? Otherwise someone once recommended mising apple juice with water to look like white wine and putting it in an old white wine bottle.

Trying the antibiotics or just don't fancy it are going to raise eyebrows.

Good luck!!

Ooh, I thought of a good one this morning. To drink water out of a beer can.