5 weeks pregnant give me your best excuses!

[woodwaj]

Bit of a back story, I have pcos was ttc for 18 months and finally got my bfp Monday. I have 3 party invites in the next few weeks and im pretty sure "I am on antibiotics" is code for I am pregnant! I would ideally like to keep it from family till my early scan which is the 17th this month! So what are your best none drinking excuses?!

[RobinSparkles]

YY, to pretend drinking.

If someone gives you a drink then take it, pretend to drink it and then leave it somewhere or pour it into the grass outside.

If you have a coke pretend that there's vodka in it. If you get a tonic water then pretend there's gin in it. No one will notice, honestly. In my last pregnancy I had non alcoholic cocktails and pretended that they were alcoholic.

Last weekend I was at a party where the host was trying to force me a drink. I said no thank you (I'm not pregnant, I'd just had enough) she told me that she'd be offended if I didn't take it so I took it even though she would have been more offended if I had thrown up over her lawn and then when her back was turned I chucked it on the grass. She was too pissed didn't notice. Everyone else thought I'd drunk it.

[woodwaj]

I defo think ill go with the accepting and chucking idea. Could become quite a fun game to how long I can actually keep it secret for!!

[woodwaj]

Ha! Thats a good lie. Unfortunately I am defo too lazy for boot camp!!

[DocDaneeka]

Woodwaj i challenge you! I got to 28 weeks (winter, tiny bump, kept my fleece on)

My excuse was UTI. I am very prone to bad UTI and they can often need 3 courses of antibiotics or clear, and I really go off booze for months after I've had one too. SO No one i knew even considered pregnancy!!

I only had to 'fess up because I was admitted to hospital with complications. :)

[woodwaj]

Wow 28 weeks! That's amazing! I feel like im betting on really crap odds here!

[gincamelbak]

i found out a fortnight ago, just before going to visit family and friends. i sipped at one glass of wine slowly, was the designated driver when going to a friend's BBQ and the next night told friends i was the designated driver as had been the drinker the previous night.

i ran a half marathon about 3 weeks ago and stopped drinking when training for that and just told people that my alcohol tolerance had dropped completely because of that. which is a bit true - i felt half tipsy on the one glass of wine i had the first night, which is ridiculous as i used to be a total guzzler.

so: mix up the designated driver story with the losing weight and sipping at one drink. if you have to, go for a wine spritzer, less on the wine than usual.

(congratulations too)

[Frances79FirstTime]

Definitely pretending to drink has been the easiest for me - I went to Twickenham for the day with a group of friends, sat on the end of the row and thrust my beer between them discreetly, while taking it back into my hands (half empty) for obligatory photos. Also went to a friend's for dinner, had a glass of wine by me all night but kept swapping it with my husband - he got incredibly drunk doing this though!

Also said that night that I wasn't drinking much because I was so hungover so that made sure I had an "excuse" to drink a soft drink at the same time. There is nothing worse than pretending to drink but then spending the night having nothing to drink at all!

I haven't used the antibiotics one as I know people will equate it with being pregnant (and I haven't been ill!) When I'm socialising with people at work I say I have given up mid-week drinking to try and be good (which works well and they don't seem to weigh that up with the amount of cr$p I am eating to curb ms!)

[Eastwiththem]

Saying you are hungover is a good one, especially for things like a Sunday BBQ where having a big night before is believable. Even better if you have morning sickness and don't have to fake feeling grim!

I got through an incredibly drunken night out by being the person who makes the getting ready cocktails and gets the shots in. Made horrifically strong vodka cokes for everyone (mine was just coke) and then bought a couple of rounds when we were out, making mine a lemonade or water. As I had a tray of alcohol in front of me all night no one guessed.

I did get a couple of drinks bought for me in return, which got left on other people's tables or regifted. Someone bought me a shot and I lifted it up to drink it but while they were grimacing from their shot I hid mine on a ledge underneath the bar and grabbed an empty shot glass from nearby to bang on the table.

You can pull a similar trick at dinner by insisting on ordering a certain bottle of wine, pouring everyone a big glass of it, giving yourself a small glass which you sip occasionally. Make sure you keep everyone else topped up while your glass stays undrunk. People will just remember that you said the chardonnay was fab and they did/didn't agree, rather than you not drinking.

[RetroHippy]

I've got a work night out on Friday. Two people know, but I really don't want many others knowing till my 12 week scan (when I will pin my scan pic up in the staff room )

I'm thinking maybe designated driver, but will probably go with 'secret drinking' and just make sure I act like a tit!

[RetroHippy]

'Secret non-drinking'