How did you hide your pregnancy until you were ready to tell?

[tattoo_mama]

if you have been TTC u can say that your on a healthy diet/no drinking cause your TTC...
otherwise tell people youre not feeling well, as someone suggested the tests thing cause then they will feel bad for asking you and hopefully leave u alone
GL

[Mummy Koala]

I was lucky to not have morning sickness but my tummy popped out earlier than I'd hoped. I was also fortunate to be flat out at work at the tricky time of 6-8 weeks so i was in my office continuously and looking rather stressed out....and then I played on it too so that people would leave me alone. My trouble was hiding the tummy but I worked around it by not wearing my tight clothes as much and when i did surface from my office, i kind of sucked in my tummy until i was able to get away from colleagues. Some people suspected but then that always happens. I guess stomach bugs, flu, and other excuses helps with the time off work factor, as does taking medication for the lack of alcohol intake. Like others have said the excuse that you are having some tests done by the doctor is also a good way to get people off your back, you just have to be dead serious about it and try and look a little concerned and not give out too much...people sometimes suspect the worst in those cases - perhaps mentioning you have a constant pain in the stomach area might give people a steer in the wrong direction.

Even if people do suspect, it'd be nice if they kept their thoughts to themselves until you are ready to make your announcement. On the day we announced to family, one of my sister inlaws was almost about to call the other sister in law aside and see if she thought i was pregnant cause my boobs were bigger and i looked rounder....i couldn't believe she actually said that to my face - and she's not that interested in me any other time...what a nosey parker - goes to show that sometimes family is worse than work colleagues!

[Ellee05]

We did it with great difficulty but still managed to hide it until about 13 wks My DH went on a health kick that had "bets" with each other and I couldn't let him win, and people accepted that cos he was going without also.

As for MS it was really hard, I found that blackmores morning sickness tablets were good and if i woke up anytime after midnight i would take one so it eased the morning. Also Accupressure travel bands definately helped curb the nausea and sickness!!

Hope that you don't have too much trouble hiding it - all the best for a happy and healthy pregnancy!

[Bub4me]

I'm really struggling at the moment. I am 8 weeks and haven't (luckily) had any MS, but am already begining to show a bit -- that's really early isn't it, I was going to start another thread and ask when people started to show. It's worrying me a bit. Anyway, TWO girls at work asked me if I was pregnant today, and another asked our colleague if I was (colleague knows and played dumb for me - thankfully). My aim is to get to at least 10 weeks without letting it go public, but it's getting harder and harder. I'm not sure how I'm going to go keeping it a secret till 12!

[Ellee05]

I never lied to people I just came up with other sayings that would make them take a step back like "Oh thanks, Do I look that fat?" would catch them off guard and have them saying sorry. I said it laughing at the end though so it wasn't rude