Help! Hiding pregnancy at intimate hen do

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Hello,

We have just found out that I am pregnant (4 weeks) which we are very excited about.

Here's the dilemma ....

It's my mums hen do next week (parents are finally tying the knot after 40years together) she was previously a nurse so the good old antibiotics story isn't going to work with her.

We're going to the mumma Mia party where the tables are very intimate and as part of our ticket we each have pre ordered wine on the table (I didn't think I'd get pregnant as quick as we did so didn't think of it at the time). There is just 4 of us so not a big group at all. I'm not one to ever shy away from a glass of wine and my mum knows this. If we order drinks at the bar, I'll most likely have her one of my sisters be with me so I will struggle to order non alcoholic

How on earth do I hide this 😅 even though it's my mums party, I'm not ready to share this news yet as it is so early on but I'm stressing at how I'll hide this. I don't want them to find out and miss out on the experience of telling my family together with my parter but just not ready for this yet.

Any genius ideas are very welcome x

Yeah, agreed. Metronidazole you absolutely can’t drink on, often prescribed for tooth abscess.

Agree with this poster also that telling the truth may be easiest option here.

Yeah I'd go with the I've given up drinking as we are trying to conceive story too. But I do agree people are probably too self absorbed to notice. i sat next to my best friend at two weddings last summer and didn't notice she wasn't drinking alcohol at either of them.

Just have wine in your glass in your hand all the time. I didn’t tell anyone until I was 19 weeks, and during that time I was at two hen parties, Christmas and a huge family occasion with lots of drinking and toasts. No one noticed.

The ‘I can’t drink because I’m on antibiotics’ is so overused you might as well stuff a cushion up your front and put on a T-shirt that says BUN IN THE OVEN.

I'd just tell her, I hid mine and my mum found out when I rang her from the hospital to collect my dc from school because I had a missed miscarriage was going for surgery and had been given 3 bags of blood and kept in for 3 days.
First thing she said: why didn't you tell me what you were going through?