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Hi Gigi2000,


There is quite a choice of groups and classes each week for babies and toddlers, somebody on here created a handy list which I am sure a search would surface. Although you do get to meet other mums at these activities, I personally haven't found them the best way to make friends. The friends I have made that I see regularly have been through threads on this forum and my NCT group! There are a few threads at the moment of people meeting up, going along to such meets is definitely the easiest way to make friends.


My daughter has just turned one and I am due with number 2 in a couple of months, most of the mums around in my daughter's first year are back at work now so I went from knowing lots of people to the numbers decreasing significantly! Ive met a whole new set of mums from various thread on here.... SAHM, bookclub, spring babies etc


Good luck and if your at a loose end and fancy coffee drop me a pm :-)


* edited to finish and add sorry about sudden end to post, was posting from iphone and run out of space!!

Hi gigi2000. There's a thread on here somewhere about how hard it can be to make new 'mummy friends'! There's a thread on 'mummy matchmaking' too!!


Depending on where you are in the ED area, you might like Bumps N Babes (Goose Green, I think). There's a TinyTalk at St Barnabas (se23) http://www.tinytalk.co.uk/index.htm. Or if you're the Nunhead side of ED, you might be closer to the Baby Sensory classes at Brockley Cross (St Peters, Wickham Road se4).


I can really highly recommend Baby Sensory. My daughter loved it, and I did end up making a 'new mummy friend' out of it. There might even be Baby Sensory classes starting in ED now. Not sure, check their website http://www.babysensory.com/en/Default.aspx? .


Of coure if you're looking for something a little more central ED, Amanda and Kevin at Push Studios off Lordship Lane (behind W Rose Butchers) are super nice and offer a lot different classes. There is a Pilates for Mums class, where you can bring your baby with you. http://www.pushstudios.co.uk/classes.php

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