I have genuinely never seen so much shite and pointless advice over 2 pages. How about this, if you’re suffering with pregnancy, tell your friends/family you’re not feeling great and can’t attend but your other half will (if they want). How about just go nobody cares if you’re drinking alcohol or not or if you appear to have put on weight, if they do then they aren’t mates and need putting in the bin. If you’re bothered about not drinking then you need a head wobble, you do want to give birth to a healthy baby right? How about this, don’t be a lying twat, people hate it when you lie to them. If you don’t want to tell people until after the 12 week scan then just don’t go, then you don’t have to lie. It’s not even 12 weeks really, unless you’re having desperate for baby sex (and if that’s the case it’s more likely you’ll be extra cautious about putting your baby at risk and won’t give a flying fk what people say/think) it’s likely you won’t know or have confirmed your pregnancy for the first 3-6 weeks so now we are down to 6-9 weeks. Even if you were Mr & Mrs popular and had events planned every weekend then it’s only 6-9 events to bin off. Get over it, what’s more important to you a healthy baby or being at an event and being miserable and lying to your nearest and dearest?
Years ago we were going to a friends wife’s 30 (he married a younger model) her birthday is NYE, it was a house party and we were going with our 3 kids and our friends were staying at ours with their not yet 1 year old. We’d booked taxis mostly for simplicity but also to allow the adults to have a drink. When our friends arrived at ours, the wife announced that she wasn’t feeling great and she’d drive. I knew straight away she was pregnant so caught her on her own asked her and she admitted, so I said, either I’ll drive too, we’ll use the kids as an excuse and then if you’re feeling tired we can leave and come back here get the kids to bed and you can either get some kip or we can sit up and have a nice chin wag and a cuppa, or we can just not go, I’m not that bothered about going, we can send the men with my kids and you me and baby can stay here. We stayed home (we didn’t like the young wife much anyway
) we had a great night, I got to have cuddles with baby and she got to sit comfortably with her feet up and her joggers on and we had a much needed catch up without our husbands and kids interrupting. We were in bed at 10 and box fresh the next day. My friend just needed some support and not to feel under pressure. When you’re pregnant people are completely understanding about you not attending events, even if you tell them after the 12 week scan. No need to go to a whole load of trouble turning yourself inside out there will be other events, there won’t necessarily be other pregnancies. Jesus sorry for that epic bore
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You know what I think, most kids don’t care and it’s more about the parents being competitive. I’d defo be in your camp, I forgot loads too, it wasn’t such a massive thing when mine were little, they could do things like take their favourite teddy in rather than dress up as (insert Disney princess that has nothing to do with books) or just bring in their fave book. Even this is wrong imo, what about those kids who don’t have books? The emphasis should be about books, that day at school, nothing more. It would take so little to stop schools making kids dress up for wbd - we’ve had years of exposure about kids not having enough to eat at home so free school meals and breakfast clubs are a massive thing and we are putting this sort of pressure on parents? It’s parents like FoD and his “creativity” that start this bloody competition. It makes me sad for the kids who don’t have books let alone the resources to buy/make outfits.