Hiding pregnancy at hen do - any tips?

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I am going on one of my best friends hen do on Friday. We have hired a big country house for the weekend, lots of games, food and drink organised!
I will be exactly 6 weeks onfriday, I'm not ready for anyone to know yet. There will be about 12 close friends of mine there. How on earth do I get out of drinking games etc without it being obvious. The made of honour is 20 weeks pregnant, I don't know her very well but I am considering asking her to help me hide the fact I'm not drinking, I.e helping her organise the games rather than taking part? I'm getting worried as the last thing I want is for people to realise and I take the attention off the bride to be!

Help!!!

I keep seeing tonic water mornit be unsafe? I love it but have been avoiding drinking it apart from the odd glass!

I think the official advice is not to drink loads of tonic water as it has some quinine in it. I didn't know this at the time though. You could use soda water instead, if you're worried. Or soda and lime juice, and pretend its vodka, lime and soda.

You might not be ready to tell them but if one of them wasn't drinking and came up with some cock and bull excuse would you think "that's plausible" or "pregnant"?

If I thought someone was pregnant I wouldn't ever say it infront if everyone! Hoping they all think the same as me! Am going to try and pretend i am drinking I think rather than come up with an excuse

I have a hen weekend this weekend too and I am 7 weeks. I have had a word with one of the bridesmaids and said while I am drinking I don't really want to take part in any drinking games. This is easier for me as I had a miscarriage a couple of months ago so have just said I am still not really back on the alcohol since then.
It's the drinking games that are hard and it is usually really hard to pretend you are participating as someone will usually pour your drinks.
Congratulations and I hope it goes well.

The whole swapping drinks thing and making yourself drinks thst look like what you would order just seems a lot of hassle to go to. Just say you are off alcohol and give a made up reason. Drinkers can usually tell if someone is fake drinking anyway.

Rollonthesummer I got confused at that post as well lol.

As a pp mentioned, metronidazole is the only antibiotic which interacts with alcohol. It is used to treat dental and stomach infections.

When I was faced with a similar situation in early pregnancy, I told a friend who was coming about some 'tooth pain' about a week before the event and then a couple of days before wrote on our group chat how annoyed I was that I couldn't drink due to antibiotics for this stupid tooth infection. I did feel bad lying but having had an earlier mc, I was just not ready to announce. Friends didn't suspect a thing (and we all work in the health sector with medicines!). They only joined the dots after we had announced our pregnancy.

Walk with a limp too

I found out I was pregnant about 9am on a Friday morning. At 2pm I had to leave to go on a hen weekend

I just used the standard medication excuse. I had in fact been on medication for a medical issue for a few months and although it wasn't anything I couldn't drink on, I told everyone it was something to do with that.

Once I'd had my 12 week scan and started telling people, most of the other hens said they'd guessed but hadn't said anything, which is the polite thing to do. One said she was completely fooled though!

You could put pregnancy vits in a bottle to pass off as pills!

Rollonsummer
Unfortunately at my work and friends a pregnancy result doesn't mean all is well. So I always guessed with one girl who used to eat a proper lunch while pregnant and with me someone guessed as I used to bake in early pregnancy.
But I would never have asked anyone just as they didn't ask me. Some didn't know I was pregnant even just before I went on Mat leave .... With twins

I had a hen do at around 9 weeks, a big boost weekend affair. I knew the old "abx" lie wouldn't fool, so I said I had cystitis. I've had a couple of very serious bouts of it in the past which have resulted in major kidney infection, and I just explained that, and said while I had a relatively mild case, alcohol makes it much worse (which is true). No-one likes to ask too many questions about cystitis.

If they're 12 of your close friends just tell them!

Liver function test on Monday so you don't want to drink.
Say you've been gettin upper right abdominal pains and your dr suggested you don't drink for several days before in order to get an accurate picture

I would be surprised if a load of people you don't know would be so nosey! I was about 8 weeks pregnant at a very close friends hen party and i only told the hen and one other guest who I was close to (before he event). No one else questioned why I wasn't drinking because they didn't know me well enough. One girl asked the hen and she made up a story for me. I think everyone assumed but didn't embarrass me by asking. It was fine. Maybe the group I was with were just very polite! By the wedding the cat was out of the bag and all of the hen party guests came and congratulated me.

Sorry misread the post, I didn't realise they were all close friends!

I had this issue when I was around 7/8 weeks. I was out with quite a crowd of friends for a birthday and told them all I was on antibiotics for a kidney infection (which I actually was the week before). So I had 2 alibis: 1. you're not supposed to drink whilst on antibiotics and 2. you're not supposed to drink with bad kidneys/liver. I made a point of getting involved in the fun and laughs so as to not point out that I wasn't drinking.