New SAHM, meeting new moms?

[Lirpa11]

Hi everyone

We are due to have our first baby in four weeks. It is our plan for me to be at home with the baby for awhile. This may be a year or more, or even until the kids go to school. We will see how everything goes, financially, as well as how I cope being at home and not at a desk during the day.

I am an accountant by trade, and I don't actually have many mommy friends. Especially not SAHM friends. Either our friends aren't quite to the baby stage in their relationships, or they have a couple of kids already.

I would like to be able to meet new moms, with a baby around the age of our baby. Moms that I can easily relate to with their situation and ours, and share advice and experiences with.

I lived in Australia for ten years (hubby is Australian) and we have just moved to Georgia, USA to live (I was raised here) . In Australia, there are new mom groups where new moms meet up, have play dates, coffee catch ups etc and offer each other support. I can't seem to find anything like that here.

Any advice? Thanks

 

[NerdyMama]

Maybe find a fb mommy swap and see if any ladies are looking to have play dates. If you lived one state over we could hang out lol

 

[MamaLoCo]

Yeah check Facebook. Just use the search bar and type in "mom" or your town name and mom. You'll definitely find mom groups that way.

 

[jlw617]

I remember meeting new mommies for the first time, my dh was in the military so I needed some sort of way to connect to other mommies, church is a good for that too but if you don't go to church the the mommies groups is great, they have them in most places, just google the mommies network, I met a lot of long lasting friends through my local group in California but they are nationwide, it's a great resource for play dates and advice and more!

 

[Indi84]

I'm uk, but when I became a sahm I didn't have that many mum friends. I did nct (don't know if you have that, it's a private antenatal group basically) and bonded with two mum's to be in there, was great because we met up once a week for ages.
Then I started doing groups, all different kinds, music, baby sensory etc and while I didn't make close friends I was always able to find someone to chat to during class.
Now he's a toddler (I'm still at home with him) I still see the nct ladies, and have quite a few mum's who I can text and meet up with, it's just finding them over the time! Also my friends have had children in that time which is great.