Anyone else feel like a Secret Agent?

[Aimee1003]

I feel like I am living a double life trying to keep my pregnancy secret. It is all I think about all day, but I have to watch what I say to other people. LOL, here are my secret agent examples:

*I get on this forum at lunch. Everytime someone walks by my office, I minimize it really quickly.

*I have to go hide when I am making calls to the dr, etc so no one hears.

*My stomach has been feeling weird (not bad just different). When I walked in the office the other day a lady said "Oh no, I hope you are not getting the stomach virus", I looked up, puzzled, then she said "You are holding your stomach". Oops!!! Yeah stomach virus, maybe that will cover if I get morning sickness anytime soon.

*I am getting a few waves of nauseau at lunch. I keep trying to cover for it.

AND Last but not least....
* I am secretly making "non mixed" drinks hoping my friends won't notice!!!

Tell me your secret agent stories!!!!

 

[MummyOfSeven]

Haha,,your post made me giggle ,, I'm sure even my 7 year old daughter has figured out I'm pregnant already as she keeps looking at my belly lol. I've got my partner doing school runs for the next three weeks too lol,,it's funny what we do to try and hide it,,I've already denied pregnancy about 4 times which also makes me feel really bad but it'll all be worth it in the end hopefully xx

 

[libbylou]

Last night I was at a work function (a few select work friends know) and we had a champagne toast! I was like OH CRAP...I had to pretend to take a sip of my champagne and then passed it off to my friend (who knows) claiming headache to the rest of the table!

Everyone at work keeps asking me if I'm coming down with something because I am SO TIRED all the time and I always feel like crap at work

and I too have to hide in my car at lunch on my cell or in a side office on the phone with a dr!

 

[AngelUK]

I pretend I had too many coffees already when I meet a friend at a cafe and order a decaf.
I pretend my weight gain is purely cause I stopped smoking.
I say my stopping smoking was cause I had this constant cough and I hated how yellow my walls are. I also explain my food aversions with my newly sensitized non smoker nose.
When ppl call me in the afternoon and catch me at my daily nap I pretend I have insomnia again and couldn't sleep last night. But I think it is getting a lil too frequent and ppl are starting to think me a real slob

 

[luckybreak]

only close friends know e are expecting I told them not to say anything on Fb so it is easy for me to keep it a secret, my background is a strict religious one and not married with child is crazy lol we were going to get married next month but baby came first! so now we are still getting married next month then we will announce baby hopefully they dont start counting backwards lmao.

 

[sunbaby777]

Too funny! Everyone BUT my work people know that I'm pregnant. I have two jobs, one at home, and one at the local library. Fortunately, I can hide amongst the aisles of books most of the day and sneak to the bathroom in the back when necessary. I just hope I don't get sick to the point of missing days from work. I need the money before this baby comes! We do have a work party coming up. I'll have to be sly about not drinking. Hadn't thought about that part until you mentioned it!

 

[Aimee1003]

This is so funny! I forgot one...I am having to alternate which work bathroom I use in the hopes no one will notice that I have to pee every 30 minutes!!!

 

[kayaen]

Drinking mixers. I already have plans for an upcoming baseball game and Oktoberfest. My DH buys a bottle, we ask for a cup, we pour it all in, and refill the beer bottle with cool, refreshing water. And I drink all night! Mwahahahaha! Just hope no one grabs my "beer" by mistake, because that's a dead give away.

 

[Mid.night]

Hehe! I am pretending I am on a diet which you eat little amounts constantly to help cover up my new weird eating habits due to my sickness. Every one thinks I'm a right freak as I eat a big sausage roll in 3 small portions throughout the day at work.

I also say I have given up my beloved diet coke to cut out caffeine to make my heart more healthy......

My boss knows and we have to have secret coded conversations behind the filing cabinets when she wants to check how I am!

 

[Srbjbex]

Haha brilliant thread!!

I am doing a lot of minimising of this website at work!

We have our annual work ball next week, and it will be really weird if I don't drink, so I am currently planning some 'secret agent' schemes for then. I am either going to have to pretend to be Not feeling great so not drinking, or surreptitiously keep switching my glass of wine with my husbands!! Haha but then he will get really drunk because he will be drinking twice as much.

 

[Aimee1003]

I love all the stories!

 

[Aimee1003]

I may try switching glasses with my Dh as well. My favorite is when ppl ask me, "So, when are you going to have kids?" I want to say, "Oh, around May." but I can't. I have to come up with some generic, noncommittal answer.

 

[Srbjbex]

Yep, with you there.... Non committal answer followed by a change of subject.... Or my favourites at the moment is to push the question back onto them so I say "yeah, some point in the future, we've talked about it.. What about you, you having kids soon? " that normally shuts them up!!

I find really it's only people who haven't had kids who ask. I think people who have been through the whole ttc saga etc know better than to ask!

 

[superfrizbee]

Not me personally but my sister in law drank a j20 out of a tinted wine glass! I think if we have friends over I'll buy non alcoholic vino and sup it out of one too!

Had a lunch meeting at work the other day where everyone else had wine - my director asked me why I wasn't drinking! I said I'd end up falling asleep in my afternoon meeting. Did he buy it? I don't know!

 

[stickylizard]

My mum has guessed and I'm trying to throw her off because she told my sister (who is pg too and knows) that shes gonna ask me outright and i cant lie. so i asked her to get me some new hoodies for xmas haha, she will be thinking "ah she wont want new clothes if she cant fit into them" its ok by the time she starts to do her xmas shopping she will know. and my dad was in the pub when i rang earlier and i was all "aww you went to the pub without me, no fair". and im pretending his driving is even worse than it is to get OH to drive us all to see my grandma because my ms is worse when travelling. i love this thread xxx

 

[JadeCrusader]

I had a physical the other day, and I got a weird result on the urine analysis. I was talking to my husband and our best male friend about it while we were at a restaurant eating lunch (I know, perfect thing to talk about while we're all eating, lol!! j/k). Anyway, I had a Freudian slip. It literally went like this:

Me: "I dunno, it's probably because I'm taking all these (thinking to myself "say vitamins.. say vitamins.. say vitamins!") pre-natals." DOH!

My husband just stared at me (he knows I'm pregnant, but we're keeping it on the down low for awhile so our friend doesn't know about it yet). Our friend just looked at me funny and then continued on with the conversation. I think it crossed his mind, but he also knows that we were TTC last year and I was taking pre-natals daily just in case so he probably decided that was all it was again. But wow, did I feel like a dork!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mally01]

I'm lucky in a sense as my job means working from home and seeing my team members and boss once a month but I guess that might be a disadvantage too as they might notice from the last time they saw me that my boobs are now the size of footballs!! My boobs were, um very big before I got pregnant and now they are just getting ridiculous, I'm so worried and conscious about that. It's funny actually as a lady in a department store now knows I am pregnant (bought some nice body oil for my tummy) before my brother and rest of the family which I think is funny. The only people that know at the moment are; The daddy, my Mum and Dad, the doctor, the midwife and the blonde lady in Debenhams!!