Bee’s I need your help. Since we are only 4-5 weeks pregnant, DH and I decided to wait till closer to the end of the first trimester to tell our friends. We’re going to tell our parents in 3 weeks probably. Also, we haven’t told any of our friends that we were TTC, mostly b/c I didn’t want to deal with people asking every month if we were pregnant (glad we did that too, b/c it’s been 15 months).

So, here’s the dilemma. This weekend I’m going with my 2 best friends to visit another friend out of state. She just had her baby in October and we haven’t had a chance to go see her & the baby yet. Well, I’m usually one that drinks wine with dinner and I know my girls will be drinking this weekend. I’m trying to figure out how to say I’m not drinking without saying I’m pregnant. I don’t like the “I’m on antibiotics and can’t mix alcohol” b/c everyone knows that means you’re preggo.
Here are my 2 thoughts:

1 – I did a detox diet in the fall to help lose weight. I could say that I’m doing that again… but that means I’d have to be super careful about other stuff that I eat while with them (no bread/carbs, no red meat, etc).

2 – Tell them that we’ve been TTC for a while and I’m on Clomid and can’t drink. This lets them in on the fact that we’ve been trying without telling them that we are pregnant. Also, when we do announce that we’re pregnant, it won’t take them by complete shock (not that it would, we’re 28 & 35…so babies aren’t a shocker).
Am I over-thinking this? Any other suggestions?