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Pretending your not pregnant

TBsquaredTBsquared member
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After I found out I was pregnant I couldn't even begin to imagine how hard it would be to hide it for the first trimester!  My friend invited me over for supper and was serving wine. Not to say im a heavy drinker, but I don't normally turn down alcohol and when I did everyone started asking me if I was pregnant and trying to force me to drink which really pissed me off. So to try to get the rumour mill from turning, the next weekend for my friends birthday party, me and DH filled up a bottle of vodka with water and I had to pretend to drink!!! I think it worked as a one of my friends said I guess your not pregnant since your drinking!!

 Has anyone else had to pull off such things to hide your pregnancy?


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  • MrsHo1030MrsHo1030

    Anyone that I'm currently hanging out with on a regular enough basis knows we're pregnant. My best friends were all aware that we were trying and having some trouble. 

    If anyone else asked, I'd just say I didn't feel well or had a headache already.  

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  • ZilelabelleZilelabelle member
    So far I've just been avoiding most of the people I know because I am a terrible liar, I honestly don't know how I'll make it to 12 weeks without telling people. I've got a group camping trip coming up and am going to have to figure out how to keep people from wondering why DH is carrying all my stuff for me!
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  • emuliz17emuliz17 member
    I haven't lied if people asked, I told them yes but only 7 weeks. I know some people don't tell until 12 weeks. My mom, dad and sister, DH parents, close friends and a couple people at work know. Other than that we are going to tell the rest of our friends and family in December with a Christmas Card announcing our little peanut.  My sister is so excited to be an Aunt she announced it to a few people of her own. Take it one day at a time! Good luck keeping it a secret. Big Smile
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  • TBsquaredTBsquared member
    I hang out with the same group of people all the time, so they will probably catch on soon enough, which is why I have been avoiding most of them this week and next week im out of town, I think I will spill the beans on Halloween when I am 11 weeks!

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  • IsaacAIsaacA member

    imageTBsquared:
    I hang out with the same group of people all the time, so they will probably catch on soon enough, which is why I have been avoiding most of them this week and next week im out of town, I think I will spill the beans on Halloween when I am 11 weeks!

    I think halloween is a great time to announce it too. GL

    I have been pretending I'm not pregnant from my coworkers and clients. Last time I told at 5 weeks to let my work know that I'll be having a lot of doctor appts. Then the clients found out and I was asked every single day: What are you naming him/her? Do you know if it's a girl or a boy yet? Wow your gaining a lot of weight. Do you know how much your baby weighs? etc. There disability adults.....so those questions 50-80 times a day gets very annoying.

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  • Pdxmom73Pdxmom73
    For this reason I am so very glad that I am not a drinker. No one suspects a thing! We had our block party a week after I found out. My neighbors do like to party but since I rarely drink no one thought a thing of me not having a beer in my hand. My BFF and I are both pregnant. She was in town and that is the way she got people to guess. We met a group of friends at a bar for lunch. Everyone asked her why she was not drinking, "what, are you pregnant or something". I was at this same lunch and no one asked me. We are not as far along so we were not announcing like she was. 
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  • shamrockbaby512shamrockbaby512 member
    Yes, I had to lie to my friends a few weeks ago.  I told them I had a migraine in the morning and had to take my medicine twice so I really didn't feel like drinking because of that.  When I ended up telling them a few weeks ago I apologized for lying but they were all so excited for me that they didn't care.  I am sure your friends will be the same way!  
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  • k4slr6k4slr6 member

    no one has asked so I don't have to lie.  But if I wasI not "drinking" yesterday I would have had tons of questions.  I had a golf tournament and luckily it was BYOB so I got plastic bud light bottles with the screw top and dumped them and filled them with water and put them in my cooler.  Worked like a charm.  I got out of doing shots by sayng I was the DD later that night and I did get a lot of crap for not just doing one early on, but the people I was paired with are not my close friends so I didn't care..and my close friends wouldn't have railed on me so much.

      Later at the bachelorette party my bff knows so I would buy a beer when she was about 1/2 done and we would switch.  I was her DD so it worked.  I had some coworkers there so I didn't want them to know yet.  That was our last drinking thing till we can announce so I am glad. 

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  • JinnifahJinnifah member
    dh has been drinking for 2 lately...discretely finishing my glasses
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  • JLMB2008JLMB2008 member
    Tell everyone he lost a bet!
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    Re: Pretending your not pregnant

    So far I've just been avoiding most of the people I know because I am a terrible liar, I honestly don't know how I'll make it to 12 weeks without telling people. I've got a group camping trip coming up and am going to have to figure out how to keep people from wondering why DH is carrying all my stuff for me!

     

     

    Tell everyone he lost a bet!

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  • memccartmemccart

    I'm worried about this too. I have a group of friends that I run and drink with every Thursday. They are going to catch on when I am not drinking but I don't want to not go altogether (although at a post-race party last night, no one noticed I just had water). I guess if people ask, I'll tell them. I'm just hoping they will be kind enough not to ask.

    I also have my sister-in-law's wedding to get through. I really don't want anyone catching on then (I don't want to steal her moment at all) so I think I may have to just carry a drink around. My husband and mom know and can help me out there I hope.

    I think back to all of the times that I haven't recognized that a friend stopped drinking for awhile and try to convince myself that people won't notice as much as I think they will.

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  • dinnerfor2dinnerfor2 member
    I just want to say that I agree that it's so annoying when friends try to do this! If someone is not drinking b/c they are pregnant and not ready to announce it, it is so rude for someone else to say something! It is one of my pet peeves, and I am sorry it happened to you. 
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  • deanna.w1984deanna.w1984
    I have told my immediate family and close friends, however, I am not ready for the whole world to know just yet. I own a gym and am so afraid of my members finding out. I have been lying about my doctor's appointments. (I have high blood pressure so have already been to the dr 3 times!) I also haven't had ANY energy to work out with everyone like I normally do. I'm just hoping no one catches on. I'm normally so energetic, so I sometimes have to push myself just to get up and chat with my members. I can't wait until I can tell them becuase I am a horrible liar and just don't want them to find out on their own!
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