Meeting mommy friends

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I have a dd, 7 months old. I have a couple of close friends who I meet up with often. They do not have children.

I would really like to meet parents with similar age children. I have joined baby groups, however aside from having friendly conversations it has not developed into friendships. I have joined local parents page on Facebook and the app MUSH, although not successful in ‘making friends’.

I return to work part time in September and dd going to a childminder.

Any suggestions on how I can meet people with children and ‘make friends’ ? I appreciate that friendships develop and over time. It would be lovely to develop
My social circle.

Ime of 'friendly conversations' it takes a good year while to develop into real friendship.

You could suggest you all get together and have a coffee somewhere with the babies?

IME the dynamics of the group/class can depend on the likelihood of making some good friends. A regular class where you sign up for a term will see the same faces and you have chance to build up conversations, Catch up on whats happening week to week etc. A playgroup is just too transient in terms of who cane make it week to week. springydaff is right - real friendships take time. But if you find a group you get on with, there is no harm in suggesting a WhatsApp group to keep in touch with people/arrange coffee etc when the class has finished.

I made two lovely friends at a baby class. We went to the same one every week and I chatted to the same mum for two weeks in a row, she suggested we get coffee with another mum she had been talking to and it became a regular standing arrangement. I still see them both now almost a year down the line. When I’m in the same boat with our next DC I’m going to try and find the confidence to be the one ‘make the first move’ because otherwise many potential friendships don’t go any further than polite Chit chat in the group which fizzles out as soon as you stop going.