With DS1, I'd give them either the death stare, or the wounded puppy look, and make a comment about how I'm trying to *lose* a couple of kilos, and did I really look that bad? Shuts them up super quick!!

With DS2, I'd look at them incredulously, and point out that DS1 had only *just* turned one!


I found not having alcohol was easy enough to hide - I'd get a great big elaborate mocktail (ordered at the bar, so no one heard me asking for a virgin drink!) and people would assume it was a ****tail, or I'd get a diet coke or soda water with lime in a short tumbler, and people would assume there was whiskey or gin or whatever in it.

The hardest thing for me was coffee - I *love* my coffee and (embarassingly) I used to have easily 7-15 cups a day ... and I have it black and straight, and people see it sitting there on my desk. So I would make one (the smell was just awful in those first 20 weeks!!) and I would let it go cold somewhere I couldn't smell it, and then I'd leave it sitting somewhere conspicuously on my desk, but not in my direct line of vision. No one ever noticed it was the same cup all day!

Also, I transitioned into more empire lined and tunic style tops a couple of months before our BFP, so it wasn't a sudden change ... and there wasn't long between DS weaning and getting UTD with DS2 so I just never stopped wearing those clothes!

We kept DS1 a secret until I was 22 weeks