Excuse for early induction to tell friends...

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So I have gestational diabetes, diet controlled, but I have only told a few close friends and family as I was a bit embarrassed by it at the start (silly I know)and then it just got too late to tell people without making an issue of it. My husband's family don't know, or a very close friend of mine. I am being induced a week early but I need a reason to tell people why I'm being induced, is it enough to say it's looking like a very big baby or is there anything else I can say that won't raise suspicions?? I had placenta previa until this week so I was hoping if I had to have an early c section that would cover me but I just feel like I've got caught up in a lie and don't want things to get complicated. Or people thinking I'm a weirdo for hiding the GD!! Any recommendations?? Thanks x

Reduced move,ents.

Just be honest! It really isn’t a big deal, is it?!

Do you need to tell them anything? Couldn’t you just announce when baby arrives?

I think making up a serious issue like reduced movements is awful and more embarrassing than the diabetes to be honest. You wouldn't lie about reduced movements if you'd actually gone through the stress and heart ache for real!

Tell them your being induced and that's it it's no one business but your own

Just don’t tell them you’re being induced, just that you’re in labour and you’ll let them know when baby arrives?

I had GD and was induced due to baby measuring big, could you say baby ws measuring big?

Do people really need to know anything? When I announced my pregnancy I just said the baby was due end of Feb .... did you give a specific date? My baby arrived early March, no one quizzed me on the dates. Do people actually remember? If you feel you have to say anything just say ‘I am going into hospital for a check up .... & then when you arrive home with the baby surely everyone will be so excited they won’t need specific details, or you could just say ‘it was decided to induce me early for medical reasons’. Or you could say you got the initial due date wrong. There does seem a tendency to over share personal, medical information these days.

No one will care, they'll only be interested in the baby arriving safely.

Please don't feel the need to lie, of anyone asks just say it wasn't something you felt the need to talk about. GD really isn't anything to be embarrassed about.

No one will be bothered why you're having an induction, just that baby arrives safely.

"I've been given an induction date for x"
"Oh how come?"
"Just at my last check baby is measuring a bit big and it'll be safer for us both"

I think lying about something as traumatic as reduced movements is pretty despicable.

Personally I would just tell them you were induced because baby was on the large side and if they ask I’d tell them I had gd. But if you’re certain you don’t want to tell them you could always say waters broke and you didn’t go into labour within 24 hours. I had to be induced for that reason.

Cheers I think I'll go with big baby if anyone asks, it is actually a big baby anyways so it's not a lie! I'm hoping no one will ask but you know how nosey family can be! Cheers for all the feedback!

I'd just tell the truth, but if you really don't want to, just go with high blood pressure. That's why I was induced.

I wouldn't make anything up. It's nobody's business anyway. If you must give a reason say that your midwife/obstetric team feel that it's safer for baby to be out. Which is the actual reason....

Loads of people are diagnosed gestational diabetes. It's got nothing to do with diet or weight necessarily if that is why you are embarrassed.

You're overthinking this, I understand that to you, this pregnancy is the most interesting thing in the world (yes, been there done that!) to others though, not so much. So if you say "being induced next week" they probably won't really question the fact that it's a week early and if they do and you tell them it's GD, they'll assume either A) you did tell them at some point and they forgot or B) it's only just been discovered. Either way, they'll only give it very fleeting interest because they'll be too busy meeting the baby.... good luck!

Just tell them. I'd be amazed if they give a fuck that you hadn't told them previously.