To ask how you make friends as a parent?

[milkytea]

Since I had my daughter quite young, I lost a lot of friends when I gave birth. To the point I go about 6 months minimum before seeing a 'friend'. Not for lack of trying. I'm constantly wanting to make plans. So I book transport and child care, and I'm almost always cancelled on last minute. Oh and there is no way they'd come to me.

AIBU thinking it's so much harder making friends as a parent and to want to know how to? It's really lonely to be honest.

How old is your dc? I made loads of mum friends by going out everyday to baby and toddler groups and striking up conversations with lots of different people. Opening questions included: which one is yours? How old is your little on? Do you come here often (!)? What other groups do you go to? What are they like? "I also somehow ended up running a baby group and met loads of people through this.

Of old friends lose contact, you need to make new friends.

Just go to a children's group or playground and make chit chat about the place or someone else's child:

"It's really busy here today, isn't it? Do you know when the quiet times are?"

"Ooh, I love your child's coat. Do you mind telling me where it came from?"

"Your child is good at kicking a ball, isn't he/she? He/she looks so happy just running around."

"Could I ask you to watch my push chair whilst I take my little one for a happy change?"

Nappy... though it could be happy too of course.

Baby groups / church groups help :)

Mom and baby activities. I’ve made some friends through that way mainly. Oh and I have some friends on Facebook that I talk to as well as well as college friends I keep in touch with.