something I just realised

I dont drink so when I go out people wont think it unsual that I am not drinking.

we had our house warming last month and a friend of mine offered me a glass of wine and I said no thanks (I only just found out I was pregnant) and she didnt ask why.

so those ladies who do drink(when you arent pregnant of course :) ) just curious as to what you say to people especially in the first few weeks when you dont want to announce your pregnancy just yet

I had to be pretty careful not to make it too obvious with my work because I was always a social drinker and would always stay behind on Friday nights so I would make up an excuse and say I was either going out to the movies or going out for dinner or going away for the weekend. If I was in a situation where I was at someone's house for a party or something I would just say that I was going to be the sober driver and that would usually work.

Yay for us girls born in January

I used to drink apple juice out of a wine glass and pretend it was chardonnay. Ditto appletiser in champagne flutes. It was really hard for me because in the first 8 weeks of pregnancy, when we weren't telling anyone, I had my hens night, my wedding, christmas, new year and my birthday - that's a lot of occasions to be making excuses for!

As soon as I went out and refused a drink (I am normally a fairly big drinker and DH and I are the life of the party), it took our friends about 2 minutes to realise why I wasn't drinking, hence the fact, we started telling people straight away! I cannot lie to save myself!

lol my MIL still offers me wine now, and she's known about my pregnancy since five weeks.

I found out I was pregnant when DF and I were overseas. We got back just before Xmas and had a friends wedding to go to. My workmates texted me to come in as they were finishing at 12 and having some drinks and nibbles. I thought ok, we could pop in on the way to the wedding. as soon as I got there they offered me a wine. I said " no thanks, not for me" and they instantly guessed I was pregnant!!!!! Couldnt I have declined becasue I was jetlagged/ driving/ off to a wedding/ it was midday?

Funnily enough, noone questioned my orange juice drinking at the wedding....could that be because the bride was on sparkling grape juice and half our table were pregnant or breastfeeding?

i was always a social drinker, but on New Years 04 (coming into 05) I was at the firestaton with DF and all the other volys adn went to have a drink and it came straight back up, well form then on they all suspected me being pregs so we did a test a few weeks later as I wasnt due for af for a while.
so because of that i never had to tell anyone as they all kinda knew before we did lol.
made for a very long pregnancy i tell you.

i have a friend whos brother has FAS and i wouldnt like to ever put my child throguh that.

If its a night function...I either say I am driving or that I have had a huge night the night before and couldn't stomach drinking tonight...people would question why I wasn't drinking as do plenty of it usually!

My mum and MIL both drank small amounts of wine quite often when they were pregnant, but they said that in those days there just wasn't the same amount of information available. You just had to make your own decisions and hope like hell you were doing the right thing.

They've both been wonderful about finding yummy non-alco drinks for me since I've been pregnant though. My MIL even bought special non-alco champagne for me to drink at Christmas because she knew we didn't want anyone to know for a few weeks yet