How to Hide Your Pregnancy During a Family Meal? "Champagne!"

You’re newly pregnant, and with the holidays approaching, you’re not quite ready to make the big announcement… That’s perfectly normal! Like you, many expectant parents enjoy keeping a little suspense at least until the dating ultrasound.
But as the holidays draw near, you can already picture it: an endless feast overflowing with foie gras, raw fish, and maybe alcohol... So how can you hide your pregnancy during a festive meal, despite a pregnant woman's diet that might raise suspicions? Here are our best tips.

3 Tips for Hiding Your Pregnancy During the Appetizer!
It will certainly require a bit of planning with your partner in advance. But know that these tips have been tested and approved by the parents in our JOONE community!

1. Pretend you’re on an antibiotic treatment that forbids any alcohol.
2. Arrive at your host's with a bottle of "children's champagne" hidden under your coat. Claim you need to wash your hands in the kitchen to pour some into your glass.
3. Secretly pour the contents of your glass into your partner's.

Fail-proof Tip
If you’re going out for drinks at a café, order a mocktail (they often have improbable names). This way, you’ll be asked less about what’s in your “Sweetness of Acapulco” than about your choice of a diet cola.

Excuses to Keep Hiding Your Pregnancy at the Dinner Table:
For the starter: foie gras and smoked salmon... the whole shebang! They’ll definitely be watching you closely. So arm yourself with courage and these 3 foolproof arguments:

1. You just got over a stomach bug and don’t feel up to eating smoked salmon... and it’s true you’ve never really been able to digest raw fish.
2. You saw that recent documentary on intensive salmon farming, and it left you a bit unsettled...
3. You’ve become a fervent advocate for animal welfare... so foie gras is a big no for you! In fact, the more time goes by, the more you’re thinking about becoming vegan.

Moving on to the cheese platter... aged, unpasteurized cheese, of course! Instead of skipping it altogether, say:

“No, really, this meal was quite filling, and I absolutely want to save some room for dessert. You and sugar, it’s a long love story.”

And for the wine throughout the meal...
You’re the designated driver tonight, and you already had a drink during the appetizer.

In reality, it was non-alcoholic, as we explained earlier, but they don’t need to know that!