I have recently found out that I am pregnant (great news!) but I have a very busy diary this summer with various weddings and friends staying over. I normally like a few drinks with friends (!) and know they will have a barrage of questions for me as to why I am not drinking (one of the is a nurse). Can anyone advise of any decent tips or excuses from past experience to stop my friends from guessing.
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KJLorraine
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I think the best excuse is that you are taking antibiotics. I think thats right lol. Tell your friends you have an ear infection or something 
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If you drive... take the car! That's what i'm doing next Saturday 
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Yes thats probably a better excuse
I've had the same issues but i've come up with various excuses not to drink. I've done the "i'm driving" excuse and also "I had a few too many drinks last night so I can't handle drinking tonight". So far no one has commented too much. Oh also you can also pour yourself a glass of wine and just walk around it with it. People don't really tend to keep tabs on how many you've had or how quickly it's going down.
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Or see if there is any non alchoholicwine
Car is a good one, and i love the virgin cocktails as well! I just told people i was wrecked the night before and felt ill or i had a viral infection and am taking antibiotics
Car is a good one, and i love the virgin cocktails as well! I just told people i was wrecked the night before and felt ill or i had a viral infection and am taking antibiotics
I stopped drinking when I was TTC and I wasn't exactly a heavy drinker before that. So it hasn't really been an issue.
Having said that, I'm a really crap liar. If anyone asked me outright, I wouldn't be able to deny it. It would feel wrong, somehow, like I was denying someone their existence.
Having said that, I'm a really crap liar. If anyone asked me outright, I wouldn't be able to deny it. It would feel wrong, somehow, like I was denying someone their existence.
When I was preggers I used to just drink plain tonic water with a slice of lemon in it or schweps and people really didn't even question it. Or if someone is buying a round just enthusistically accept a glass of wine but don't drink it. People honestly don't seem to notice.
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I was the only one not drinking at my work's christmas meal, and that was really unlike me!! A couple of people asked but I just said I didn't fancy drinking! Sometimes you just get like that where you don't fancy a drink even though you could have one if you wanted, so no-one questioned it.
My tip would be drinking non-alcholic Becks which is rather nice but also you have to look reasonably carefully to notice the alcohol free bit on the label!
Personally I have been telling people we are trying to get pregnant and so I have stopped the alcohol while trying - I don't know if this has convinced anyone but at least then they are polite enough not to ask. The worst thing is someone making a joke and you ending up telling them when you don't want to. I did that to one of my friends at 10 weeks who was fine but another friend did it to her friend at 6 weeks and she went on to M/C.
Personally I have been telling people we are trying to get pregnant and so I have stopped the alcohol while trying - I don't know if this has convinced anyone but at least then they are polite enough not to ask. The worst thing is someone making a joke and you ending up telling them when you don't want to. I did that to one of my friends at 10 weeks who was fine but another friend did it to her friend at 6 weeks and she went on to M/C.
