To wonder if your NCT group are still friends?

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Ours was pretty tight but now the year before school I can feel is drifting. It’s sad but a bit inevitable I suppose! Has anyone managed to maintain friendships?

29 years & going strong!

Didn’t do NCT because it was too expensive but made my first time mum friends locally thanks to MN. 16years later 4 of us are still very close

No, well that is to say I did an early fade as I ws the youngest by ten years and also far to poor at the time to meet up for outings to cafes. I had nothing in common with them apart from a new baby, and that was not enough.

Our NCT babies are turning 6 around now. One person I see regularly, one I bump into every so often, but otherwise we've drifted over the last year or so.

We did all share photos of our "babies" starting school last year but it faded out after that.

DD was at nursery with one of one other kids but no they're all at different schools.

We split into 2 groups and 9 years after meeting my group of 4 still meet regularly with and without the kids. They are my 'go to' fiends x

Yes - I had a coffee with two of my NCT friends today. Our children are 23!

9 years in on my first NCT group- we meet up a couple of times a year. Kids enjoy it but meeting up and getting times and dates is a ball ache. One couple who live near us have become proper friends.

New NCT group (joined again due to age gap of kids) never really got going in the first place. I wasn’t bothered as I had been through it before but they didn’t even bother with each other. Saying that one mum lives near me and we meet up and is say we are friends now past the NCT group.

Our NCT babies are 28 now
We , the mums still go on holiday together. It probably cooled a bit during school years but ramped up once they left home😀

I see 1 a lot she and I are very close. Another I saw a lot for a few years and same another who then moved away. It's been 13 years though.

Our kids just turned 3 and we're still friends. Not as close as we were during maternity leave when we met up once a week or more. But various combinations of us meet up on our various days off, we chat a fair amount in our group chat and we go out for drinks every couple of months and arrange family get togethers. I wouldn't say any of us are super tight best friends, but we all get along well and enjoy each other's company.

I was very involved in my local NCT group - I was Chair of the branch for 3 years.
I still meet regularly with a group of friends I made - we went to the theatre this week and we've got a Christmas meal in a couple of weeks. We go away for a few days most years. My eldest child has just turned 36 😊

34 years with one other person - she’s one of my very best friends.

Yes. Group of 8 from 2018. I see two of them weekly - one goes to the same school. Then the other 4 on the WhatsApp group and odd catch up only one totally vanished after a couple of years.

No. They were genuinely horrible. I think the last time I saw them intentionally was approx 17 years ago. Children are now 18.

Having said that, the breastfeeding advice I got in the NCT sessions was genuinely very good so probably worth it for that, though there may have been another way of achieving it!

15 years and I still regularly see one NCT friend. Out of the whole group I think I'm Facebook friends (so comment on birthdays etc) with all but one couple.

10 years later, I'm still in touch with all but one (who moved out of the area). Some have become good friends (they live close by and the kids get on well), some I haven't seen in years, mainly because life is busy - particularly when they start school. Group meet ups fizzled out when 2 personalities in the group clashed and stopped speaking.

Even if I never spoke to any of them now, it would have been worth doing it for the first year. I was very new to the area with no family. They were my village in the early years. Maternity leave would have been a very lonley, isolating experience.

Yes, 21 years on we still meet up every month!!

Nope, we were all very different people! Beyond babies, we would never have been friends in normal life.

Yes! We don't see each other as much as we did but 11 years on and we keep in touch. These ladies kept me sane when I became a mummy

Yes.. 30 plus years with some of mine