
Dealing with...your drinking buddies
Bye-bye boozy nights on the town, and hello you being the only sober one. You’d rather stay at home than be the pregnant taxi driver for your mates. But they think you’ve dumped them.
What to do:
“It’s important to have friendships that aren’t based on children,” says Sandra Wheatley. “It’s good to go out and just be you, instead of a pregnant person.” Suggest dinners, cinema or shopping to avoid the booze. They might be relieved to have a quieter catch up, too.
“I was the first of my friends to get pregnant, so I felt as though I shouldn’t talk to them about it and didn’t go on our usual nights out. Second time around though, most of them had children, so it was wonderful to share the experience. We all made an effort to get together and have some ‘us time’,” said Gillian Chew, 32, from Preston, mum to Amelia, 6, and Lexie, 5 months