Friends don't understand

[WaspsAnkles]

I'm feeling really down at the moment. Have been feeling very poorly with morning sickness (though should say evening sickness) and spending the last few weeks hiding away at home.

My friends keep asking me to come out for meals with them but as they are working they keep organising evening dos. As I usually start feeling sick around 6pm I've had to cancel on them several times.
Also, food smells really set me off so going to a restaurant is my personal vision of hell at the moment.

None of my friends have kids yet and even though they were sympathetic at the beginning they are now getting a bit pushy and making me feel guilty for not coming to see them. I know they don't mean ill and probably just want to get me out of the house as I am going slightly mad at home but it just makes me feel sad that I can't.

Anybody got any experience with handling friends during pregnancy or any other cheery stories?

Don't have any experience with this situation, but thought I'd send some symnpathetic vibes!

How about meeting your friends at the weekend for lunch/brunch/coffee at a time that you can cope? And then trying to explain how you're feeling at the moment and that you just can't cope with going out in the evenings? Hopefully, the sickness will go away at some point, and your energy will return (as they did for me), and then you'll be available for evening activities again. Surely, they must understand that, it's not as if you're making something up, feeling sick is a very well known and accepted pregnancy symptom!

If they are your friends, they should not be pushy, but understanding and supportive, kids or no kids.

Offer to meet them for a brunch on a weekend or sometime earlier, or invite them over to your place.

If they really don't get it, you can deliberately join them (or have them over) when you are queazy and actually be sick in front of them - they tend to get it then (from personal experience, although not intentionally meaning to do that at the time, it did work).

Once I actually was dragged out by my hubby and everyone saw how bad I looked, and another time I forced myself to go and was actually sick when out with a couple of people, and then threw up on my mum, everyone kinda eased off and was realy quite nice.