How to keep pregnancy secret on hen do

[Emily6457]

Hi,
Currently 10 weeks pregnant and due to go on a hen weekend. Myself and my partner do not want to announce the pregnancy yet.
Does anyone have any genius ideas of how I can disguise the fact that I am not drinking?
xx

The classic on antibiotics. Everyone will guess though and make comments about you not drinking. Even though it’s really rude to ask someone if they are pregnant if they haven’t declared it themselves.
or buy your own drinks and get something that could pass as alcohol and then hope everyone else is too drunk to notice you are sober.

There's always the 'I'm on antibiotics' one but lots of people know that one now and may be suspicious.
Could you be on a strict diet and only drink slimline bitter lemons.

What’s the venue? If it’s self catering can you buy alcohol free prosecco / beers but take the labels off somehow? Not entirely sure how.

Otherwise, plant a seed about 3 days before that the you need emergency surgery (root canal is a good one). Spend lots of time moaning about it, take a phot with some cotton wool in your cheek for swelling, and say you’ve been advised not to drink whilst it heals / you’re on painkillers.

Dont just turn up and say you’re on antibiotics with no backstory, that’s just code for ‘Im pregnant’

My friend had the same issue so went early to the bar where the hen do was happening and told the barman that even if she ordered a vodka and orange, he should just give her the orange juice! She even told him that she was happy to pay for the vodka but not drink it! Worked a treat! Would only work if you were staying in the one place though!

Buy bottle of non alcoholic gin, good few options in all the supermarkets now. Buy real bottle of gin and swap the liquids. Then you can show your actually drinking "alcohol". Even if someone drinks it, still tastes like gin once you add tonic.

Then fake an illness from there. You've been "drinking" so no one will suspect.

There are very few antibiotics you can’t drink on and the main one is usually prescribed for very specific things e.g. nasty dental abscesses. Unless you want to start now with a story of how you’re off to the emergency dentist and really sell it, no one will buy it especially if there’s no pills to take 3 times a day with meals. May as well say I’m early pregnant but don’t ask me about it.

Or just buy yourself drinks that look boozy (e.g. tonic water no gin), accept alcohol from
anyone buying, carry it around a bit and ditch it whenever you can e.g. pour it down the loo. Act hammered, have a pregnancy vomit and then cut yourself off for supposedly being a drunken state. The following night you can order soft drinks based on being hungover/not wanting a repeat.

Hold a drink, take a sip and then don't drink it.....

Everyone else will soon be too pissed to notice.

You have a migraine so you dont want to drink because you are supposed to avoid alcohol on them and it might make your migraine worse if you drink

With the added benefit of some people thow up with migraines so if you get any morning sickness its already covered

Honestly, they will guess. Whatever excuse you use it'll be clear to at least some of the other hens. Whether they mention it or not is another thing. I think I'd just fess up and relax into the weekend.

Really difficult to hide on hen doo. I went on a hen doo and one of the girls who I didn’t know I said she was on antibiotics and everyone just guessed.
have you got a really close friend going who you could tell to help you disguise , I did that when I was pregnant very early days I told my boss and she just had to drink my drinks 🤣🤣 she ended up very drunk and me having to drive her home x

The best way is to not even mention it and pretend you are drinking. Always have a drink in your hand and do fake sips when people are watching, but then get rid of it somehow when no-one's watching... You can just put your glass down somewhere or pour it down the sink if you take it to the loo or kitchen.

I think if you make the effort to announce a fake reason for not drinking, it's way more suspicious!

@Emily6457
This was me and I just didn't go I cancelled saying I was poorly but I was only 7-8 weeks
If I was 11-12 weeks id have just gone and told them

I just ask for a cola but in a tall glass and people just assume I'm drinking coke with a spirit. I've also ordered mocktails before but resented paying £££ for basically a fancy glass of juice.

I'd just try and pretend I was drinking. If you make up an excuse everyone will just guess straight away.

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Best one though is to get a glass of wine and pretend to drink from it. Slowly empty it in the loos but really nurse it.

If you're of a certain age, anything you say screams pregnant. Not saying anything and appearing to drink is the best disguise.

After a certain point everyone else is too pissed to notice what you are or are not drinking.

Don’t use the antibiotics excuse, everyone knows that’s code for pregnancy. Obviously you need to be careful on how many sugary drinks you have too especially cola. Either tell a friend to help you cover it, sip your drink slowly and hope no one notices or just tell them you’re pregnant. If you go that route though tell the bride before hand though so it doesn’t look like you’re stealing her limelight

Pretend to drink. Accept a glass of something, pretend to sip, put it down somewhere. Soon enough no one will notice. I was at a wedding at the weekend, and I honestly couldn't tell you if the couple of female friends I knew who were there were drinking. I know they had some wine in a glass in front of them at dinner and were holding a glass of something at various points, but they could easily have not drunk any and no one would have noticed.

I'm loving the non alcoholic gin in a real gin bottle idea. You will be doing everyone a favour if you share it a bit, smooth their hangover out a bit. Sod it get a couple. Can you get alcohol free vodka for the second night?!

I got through a whole 40th birthday weekend not drinking by accepting all drinks, walking around with them chatting not actually drinking/fake drinking and every now and again throwing it away and getting a lemonade in a gin glass - it’s actually surprisingly easy because everyone else is drinking and takes no notice whatsoever.

The second you make up some excuse people will guess a mile off, but in general people won’t be taking much notice of what anyone drinks at all.

I went on a hen last year at about the same amount of weeks pregnant - I’d say don’t use the antibiotic line it’s immediately obvious. At the meal part I said I was limiting my drinking as had to be up with DC in the morning, then when we went to the bars/club I offered to get the drinks in a couple of times and just ordered myself a soda water and asked the bar person to serve it the same way they would a G&T 😂 nobody noticed and I excused myself at about 11 and went home when everybody was legless and nobody noticed sober me making an early exit.

I had to hide it on a training week away with work. I just avoided rounds with people saying I wasn't a quick drinker and didn't want people waiting for me for drinks and then I ordered non alcoholic beer and later in the evening sparkling water and lime/blackcurrant with lots of ice.

You can swing it, people tend to not notice you're not drinking if you don't make a bug deal out of it.

How bad or real can a migraine be if you are on a hen do!?

op say nothing. Nobody will notice.

I get migraines every month, Ive worked through them, studied through them, had exams with them. I did three interviews today with a migraine. The migraleve helps. But i certainly havent stopped my social life if I can help it although there are times when I need to cancel but i try not to because its every damn month

Agree with all the suggestions to just accept drinks and ‘loose’ them, by chucking them down the loo/leaving them on the side somewhere. I did this all over Christmas when I was in early stages of pregnancy, nobody noticed. The only hard time to do it is over a formal sit down meal as people will notice an untouched glass of wine but like others said the drunker everybody gets the easier it becomes to hide. Have fun!

Kidney infection u 100% can’t drink with that ♥️ well you could but it’s agony I know lol