How to tell bare-faced lies to co-workers

[BibiJesus]

Basically I've just found out I'm pg, and am telling everyone on MN as dh doesn't know yet and I'm giddy about it. Anyway, have a works Christmas do next week and have been blethering on and on about how much we should all drink and get merry this year after a tough time in work, how ace the cocktails are in the bar we're going to and basically everyone is going to wonder why I am not having a drink.

So far I've got

• am on antibiotics for sore wisdom tooth (plausible as have been moaning about wisdom teeth)
• drink coke and say it's vodka and coke/bacardi and coke etc (but doesn't solve the problem of the drinks kitty and rounds)

help please, you craft MNers!

Just say you don't fancy alcoholic drinks - if anyone puts pressure on you that's wrong. Probably others will join you in something alcohol free.

Congratulations! Hope you come up with a good excuse! The first month I was pregnant with DS1 was a nightmare for social events - parents 60th party, in laws 50th party, a wedding and my birthday!! Fortunately none of them mixed the same people so the good old antibiotics came out time and time again!! How my parents didn't guess at their do I have no idea as they are well aware of my red wine passion!!

I always thought that it didnt matter if people twigged as long as they didnt actually say anything....so whatever strategy you have in place will be fine if you dont think people will ask you or DH outright. (worked for me apart from one horrible girl who did ask me outright when 7 weeks because i touched my tummy in that way pg women do without even knowing they are doing it...)

Christmas night out last year with no drink was hoe i guessed friend was pregnant. I would go for the coke /tonic option and say they are vodka/gin. Would hate anyone to find out before dh. How can you keep it a secret i told dh as soon as period hadn't arrived! Good Luck hope your dh has the best Christmas surprise. x

congrats to you both! It'll be the best pressie for you both.

Sparkling Shloer all round!

Accepting drinks and losing them the best, noone notices as long as your having a good time and they are getting 'oiled'

Hi,
When is your night out? Just want to know how it went as mine is tomorrow, haven't told anyone at work yet and no idea how I'll get away with not drinking.

Everyone knows I don't have a car so driving excuse out, we always have a kitty and lots of wine with dinner which we all chip in for. Don't really want to spend £30 plus on drinks that I chuck down the loo every round.

Was thinking of texting the organiser in afternoon, say feeling ill, don't think will make it. Then tell her later think will struggle in for the meal but better lay off booze. But then will I have to look miserable all night , go home early and miss all the dancing?

Hoping you found a wonderful solution. Please tell.

I had this problem last Christmas - our work christmas party was on my birthday so I'd made a huge deal about how p*ed I was going to get and then did a positive pregnancy test on the morning of the party!

I came up with loads of feeble excuses which seemed to change throughout the day/evening, feeling hungover, wanting to pace myself, pretending a coke had vodka in it, etc. I even told someone I didn't want to be hungover the next day because my DH was taking me on a romantic trip to Rome for my birthday and the flight was really early (no idea where I dreamed that one up from!)

There was one difficult point when someone got in shots in tequilas for everyone and I had nowhere to hide so had to say I didn't want it, which everyone thought was very strange.

But weirdly nobody even suspected me being pregnant - I think once everyone has had a few drinks themselves they don't notice!

Haven't read whole thread, so don't know if anyone else has suggested this, but how about telling your DH that you are pregnant and then telling everyone at work. It's a crazy idea, but it just might work... This whole waiting til 12 weeks thing is just bonkers superstition. Anything can happen at any time in a pregnancy and you are just stressing yourself out needlessly. There, i've said it. Sorry for being so blunt, but it's what I've done this pregnancy and it has been so much nicer than being all cloak and dagger like the last one.

When I have told people, I've just added that "it's early days yet, so don't get too excited". They understand.

Depends on your situation I guess, but how about telling them you're TTC so that's why you're not drinking? Completely believeable for the gits that always guess and throws them off the scent?

Otherwise, agree, don't use the antibiotics one - it's sooo obvious. Buy non-alcoholic drinks when it's your round - esp ones that look/smell like alcoholic ones, "lose" real alcoholic ones, keep topping your glass up with water if there is any on the table (wine glass of course), say "oh I'll have a soft drink just for this one round to pace myself".

Trouble is, with 2nd baby, everyone's a) expecting you to get pregnant again, and b) it shows a lot sooner. I actually wore a loose top for a xmas do - simply because I'd had a heavy week and all my going-out tops were in the wash - and a couple of colleagues guessed - because of that in conjunction with me not drinking (I was driving, but they know I'd normally have a small one or two)

tee hee...i got away with it last night (well at least i think i did). All week i was on about how great it will be to go out and have a few drinks etc and then i turned up last night saying i was driving as my DH came home from work early with a stonking headache and was being sick (does occasionally happen to him so not too far fetched). Anyway i said that i didn't want to go home drunk what with DH be ill as i had DS1 to think about and would be worried that if something happened both of us would be too out of it to notice!!!! Anyway I got out of drinking anything at all as being xmas i said there was bound to be loads of police about so i didn't even want to chance having one glass.

i funny thing is is that i had a fab time and was last off the dance floor at 1am!! pretty knackered this morning though!

I had one glass of white wine and kept topping it up with soda water so it looked like I had 2 or 3 drinks. Then I switched to plain mineral water (in a wine glass) using the 'antibiotics' excuse. Not that anyone asked by then as they HAD had 3 drinks and they just though I was still on white wine!