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Original poster

To hate the expression 'mummy friends'

52 replies

meantosay · 03/01/2011 21:09

I have old friends who now have kids so they are mummies, I have friends that I met at the school gates who I got on with and ended up having a good laugh with and they are now friends and I have friends at work that I get on brilliantly with and meet up with socially and some of them have children. But I don't have 'mummy' friends and find the expression a bit twee.

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joydivisionovengloves · 03/01/2011 21:10

YANBU. I hate that expression, it sounds ridiculous.

usualsuspect · 03/01/2011 21:12

Its awful ,makes me shudder

southeastastra · 03/01/2011 21:13

aw but usual you're my mummyfwiend :(

EthelredOnAGoodDay · 03/01/2011 21:13

it's really cringy. It's nearly as bad as hubby...

jonicomelately · 03/01/2011 21:14

Urgh.

usualsuspect · 03/01/2011 21:14

sorry mummysea

Panzee · 03/01/2011 21:15

What is a mummy friend?

joydivisionovengloves · 03/01/2011 21:15

Hubby actually makes me feel physically sick.

Bechka · 03/01/2011 21:15

Awful. YANBU.

fluffles · 03/01/2011 21:17

i always thought it just referred to ante-natal friends, in that sort of post-natal window....??

ReindeerBollocks · 03/01/2011 21:19

Mummy friends generally like soft play and see it as a place to socialise. Yuck

YANBU

ReindeerBollocks · 03/01/2011 21:20

*places

Damn, now soft play sounds kind of kinky, and that was not what I meant.

curlymama · 03/01/2011 21:22

I don't like it either, so I just don't use it. Simple really.

StewieGriffinsMom · 03/01/2011 21:25

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sungirltan · 03/01/2011 21:25

sigh. what am i supposed to call the group of friends i have which i have met through attending a baby yoga class with dd. i refer to them collectively to dh as the 'posh mummies'. i have tons of non baby related common ground with them but i woudlnt have met them but for the babies and a generally meet up with them and do things as a group.

i also can't bear 'hubby' 'lo' or even worse 'little man' but what am isupposed to call them - its a very literal description :-(

Original poster
meantosay · 03/01/2011 21:35

The crowd from yoga??

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EthelredOnAGoodDay · 03/01/2011 21:40

i have similar groups of friends sungirltan and just call them antenatal friends, or yoga friends. I wouldn't use physical violence against anyone who used such a term :o, but do find them a bit twee...

KenDoddsDadsDog · 03/01/2011 21:43

The only person I know who uses it also said 'we're pregnant'. It makes me cringe.

wewishyouamerrylissiemas · 03/01/2011 21:48

i just call them friends. I have lots of friends who have kids, but thats not why we are friends.

PawPuss · 03/01/2011 21:53

I have never ever heard this expression.

TrillianAstra · 03/01/2011 21:54

They're not your mummy friends then Lissie. :)

I have work friends and phd friends and friends and mumsnet friends.

If there were people I had met at NCT classes or at the schoolgate I would need a word for them too.

"Mummy friends" is boakworthy and twee, but there does need to be a word.

The same way "playdate" is crap but there isn't a better noun for the action of "going round to play".

dipitydoyou · 03/01/2011 21:56

I've just used this phrase in a thread... sorry feeling very cringey right now!

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meantosay · 03/01/2011 22:03

I think 'I'm meeting up with some of the other mothers from the school/NCT' is okay. It's 'Mummy friends' that sounds precious and yuk.

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SarfEasticated · 03/01/2011 22:05

I agree that it sounds a bit dodgy, but it does the job. Give me an alternative and I will happily use it.

monkeyflippers · 03/01/2011 22:23

I call them mum mates. That acceptable?