will they think i'm a desperate saddo?

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hi all,

i've just got back from trip to park with 2 littlest ones, they were playing, i got chatting to 2 mums (this never never ever happens in our local park- most days i try to avoid eye contact- you know the type of place). so today my kids start playing with their kids and we seem to have some kind of bond thing going on (they were, as my best friend would say "our type of people"!) so when they went i gave them my number and said did they want to meet next week at local play cafe?

now, my husband has told me off for this kind of behaviour before and reckons i come across as a desperate saddo, but i think sometimes you just click with people and if you dont make the effort then you may miss out on a really good friendship.... ON the other hand, they might think you're a complete lesbian psycho....

Nope(to Paula) I never think twice. I would be amazed if anyone cared.

I would be amazed to.

I met a good friend in a pub garden when out with our first new babies. She was just setting up an NCT postnatal teagroup anyway and gave me her number. 2yrs and another baby later I finally joined the actual NCT instead of ligging along and making friends via it.

I think I have met some of my best friends through my DD. Do most of you feel this way?

possibly - though i would say its me having one of them with me whilst the other person has had theirs with them that has been the starting point. it kind of breaks the ice- a common ground as it were. one of my best friends i met at baby clinic when we were both getting our lo s weighed, then another i met at baby group coffee morning i suppose these are the people i see the most and who i get on with the best. my oldest friends are ones from college and school but mostly i think we are friend sout of habit and dont actually seem to have much in common anymore, though we are always there for each other, i cant say i know that much aboout their lives these days, plus they all seem to live so far away now.
my kids not yet really old enough yet to start 'making their own friends' without a bit of helpful pushing in the right direction from me. i guess because they are little and when they go to a friends house, you always go with them, so always pick a mummy i like!!!!

I still have some good friends from before she was born but Its hard to fit in with any of them anymore. Its ok if we are out on Saturday night but our day to day lives are so diffrent now.

have they called you yet?

no, darn them!!!!!

bloody bloody hell, couldnt go as dd poorly!!!!! after all that angst!