Are you still friends with your NCT group?

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And how long has it been?

My group are still in regular contact 18 months in, but I'm still sceptical we'll all become best friends for life. Maybe I have unrealistic expectations!

I'm still distantly in touch with one. We rarely see each other, but our dc are still close friends nearly 25 years on.

No. There were 8 of us. One never fit in as she was very different to the rest of us age wise and lived a very alternative lifestyle. The remaining 7 of us kept in touch for about a year or so. I went back to work after 8 months and soon found myself ousted and ignored by some of the others. Covid lockdown gave them the excuse to cut us off. I kept in contact with two others in but one suddenly stopped replying to msgs and I lost contact with the other due to working totally different hours. Now five and a half years later and not in contact with any of them. It's a shame but we didn't really have anything in common other than the babies.

Three and a half years in, we message fairly often and see each other a couple of times a year. Most of us have moved away from the area where we first met - not miles away, but just different to going to the same local park with babies in prams.

We’re not best friends for life but they’re a good bunch, and were a godsend in the first year.

Yes, still keep in touch with 3 of them. Our NCT group babies are starting secondary school this year.

Yes. Group 1 met 6.5 years ago. All but 1 still in touch. Mums meet monthly for dinner.

Group 2 met 4 years ago. We are all still in touch and meet most Fridays with children, and at other points throughout the year as families.

Not NCT but met up regularly with a few from my post natal group for about four years - long enough to all have our seconds. I moved away so that's when I stopped meeting up, so no idea how long it went on.

It was a weekly meet up with our kids - only once or twice met them without the kids.

36 years and counting for me. Three of us became friends and saw each other every week once the babies arrived, taking turns at each others houses. Contact now is sporadic as one of them moved to the US a couple of decades ago, but we're still in contact and when she's been back here it's like we were together yesterday.

3 of us are good friends - met while pregnant with our first babies almost 16 years ago. So glad I met them!

We met at NCT 25 years this month; she is my bf

Yeah, I still see all of mine. Most of us meet weekly, some a bit less often but we talk often on WhatsApp so nobody feels like they’ve faded away.

Yes. Group 1 NCT was 23 years ago and 3 out of the 5 couples are still in regular contact. Another couple moved to America but are still in contact.

Group 2 was local antenatal group - 5 of us have been very close friends for 20 years. We have an annual trip away every autumn. It used to be a one night at a spa to collapse when kids were small, now we hit the cities. 4 of us live in the same town so meet every couple of months for a meal out. One of them now works with me and another was my son's driving instructor. And 2 of the kids are best friends.

My group are fab. Every week until they were in school. Then pretty regular play dates with the kids and nights out.
We only meet up once or twice a year now but our babies are 20!

No. We stayed in touch for a few years, then drifted apart.

18 years on still friends, one in particular is one of my best friends who I go on holiday with just the 2 of us and we do a lot together. Kids are in touch still also.

I made two really good friends from my group. But we were all in touch for 2 - 3 years.

Most of the couples separated sadly.

No, my NCT group met weekly for the first year, then fizzled. We had a sort of reunion when the kids were just over 2, but not seen any of them since. I did Hypnobirthing too, though, and am still close to one of the women from there. I also did a postnatal group run by our local children's centre. Several of us for that still meet a Few times a year. Our 'babies' are now 11!

Nearly 33 years on and still about eight of us meet up most months! Not all from the same original group (just two of us as three no longer live in this country) but all around at coffee mornings etc so our oldest children were all within a year or so of each other.
Two of our stalwart group have died sadly. We all really value the long friendship we've shared and how we've supported each other through life's trials and tribulations.

Didn’t meet up with the whole group after about three years , the group dwindled when children started to go to different nurseries and schools. And school friends made an appearance . but 26 years later I’m still regularly meeting up with a couple of friends I really gelled with, one from DS1 group and two from DS2

Lockdown ruined ours. Very good friends with one, our children are best friends. Text friends with two others.

Nope, mine were a really nasty bunch. (hi if you're reading 🤪) It was many years ago but pretty much broke my heart. I had no-one, no family at all or friends with children so I had high expectations of the group. I was probably a bit try hard tbf, but the more they excluded me, the harder I tried. The upshot was, it was a lovely sunny day and I messaged to ask who would like to come to the park. Everyone replied that they were busy so I went alone only to see them all there together.

The previous week the venue for the babies first birthday had fallen through. I was the only one with a house that could accommodate everyone. They all came and had a lovely time. A secret Santa style present giving was organised for the babies. Mine didn't get a gift.

Nope they were stuck up each others asses and I was the only person their at the time without a partner present, I'm quiet naturally and as I recall some louder personalities were really grating so it put me off wanting to be friends with those people. So I didn't really fit in and did not stay in touch with not one person.