Baby groups: 10 Months old Free?!

brunettegirl

Thank you for all your words of wisdom guys!
I am venturing out on Tuesday to a new group I have found, and again on Thursday. I have also been talking to another Mummy who wants to make new friends for her LO so i #f I can persuade her to come to a soft play that could be good too

Im going to my local childrens centre today to get LO weighed and will pick up some leaflets, I plan on being very brave and venturing back into the strange room with the women sitting in individual corners alone... I just hope I don't pick the wrong mummy to talk too!

I still haven't managed to get hold of the NCT - should I email the women that did the nct antenatal classes? I have her direct address to get more info on groups?

God I almost feel about 7 and starting a new school all over again.....

But if I had made friends with the women I briefly met at my 3 attended sessions of antenatal I doubt they would still be talking to me now - I had a terrible time for the first 3/4 months I was a complete BXXXCH to everyone, even my oldest friends suffered. So they would of run away anyway

Be brave has to be the new motto!

pigpen wrote: »

well if you find anything decent do let me know.. so OH can take Missy lol.. I'm needing sleep.

Have you been to jst 4 fun at Bergen way? that was brilliant and very clean and well organised for soft play? £4 for toddlers but adults free They do toddler mornings mon- fri £2 per child adults free, apparently there's sand! I guess this is a popular thing with toddlers, the lady was very proud about the sand!! .

pigpen

sand = worms!!! lol..

Mines not quite 8 months so we've not been to any with her yet.

kitten_jo

I would suggest that you do give the groups a chance and not simply decide you dont like them because the other mums are younger than you. Having a first child at 29 was considered by my doctor and HV as old which I took exception to so it is unlikely that you will find a group where the ages of both the children and mums match with you. My daughter had her daughter at 19 and was looked down on by other Mums in the playgroup with lots of snide comments but looks can be deceptive. They were all a bit shocked when they found out that she was fully qualified in child care and could set up and run her own nursery.The people running the group kept asking her for advice as her training was more up to date than theirs. People dont like to be classed as racially or sexually prejudiced and the same goes for ageism.

brunettegirl

I fully intend to check out the groups

I don't care what age a woman has a child - I just can't stand moaning,!!!!!ing bullying women of any age and alas the ones I have come
accross happen to be very young and behave like schoolgirls - mainly because they are!

I was 32 when i got pregnant with my first and I have had soooo much grief for it - so ageist Im not

leni

My friend (33 with a 5yr old and 6 month old) is about to start a group at the Marist Church on Cottingham Road, HULL - she's set up a facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002218230195

It's going to be on a Wednesday starting next week 10am - 11.30am

Lucy is VERY friendly and if you go along from the beginning - it may also be easier to feel part of the group

pigpen

leni wrote: »

My friend (33 with a 5yr old and 6 month old) is about to start a group at the Marist Church on Cottingham Road, HULL - she's set up a facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002218230195

It's going to be on a Wednesday starting next week 10am - 11.30am

Lucy is VERY friendly and if you go along from the beginning - it may also be easier to feel part of the group

Ooh I'll go see.. I need somewhere smallish due to being unsociable

Brunette.. I joined the above link.. If you want to find me.. I'm not sure what's going next Wednesday depends on how the scan goes Tuesday and how far I can walk. initials H S-G .. And I'm not 12 either lol...

Spendless

I used to go to several playgroups with my 2, startign when they were only a few months old, and leaving once they were going to pre-school/nursery. They weren't all in church halls (at least not around here) in fact the majority weren't. They were in village halls/community halls (the ones without a religious connection) I do remember once collating info for my HV on where all the different mums and toddler groups where, times, prices as she hadn't got the info. I don't know if children's centres would hold this nowadays? The best place I found out about them, was by word of mouth from other mothers who had older children and had used them. Today I saw an advert for one I used to attend in the village's post office, so I guess it could be worth look at the ads up in the various shops where you love.

brunettegirl

WOW! Some mummies can be very badly behaved can't they! Thought I would check back after my visit to the childrens centre yesterday. It was EVIL, BUT not quite as bad as I thought. 1 mummy spoke to me before I got into the group - had baby weighed first. Then didn't speak to me once in the group! Very odd!! 2 other mummies did speak to me and LO and were very nice another mummie came over and sat down and asked the mummy how old her 2 babies were and she was blanked! Completley totally and utterly blanked her, her and her friend both gave me a look to say how dare she come here and talk to us! I was very embarrassed I used LO as my escape and said we had places to go and left. But that was awful!!!!

I hope I don't experience that later today. Although I have a feeling I would tell said people they were very rude and then run like hell incase they are the mean violent types lol!!