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I work FT and I talk to parents at daycare pickup/drop off and at birthday parties! My DH makes mom friends at the park, library storytime and museum.

I just started making mom/dad friends recently and my older LO is over 2.5!

Most of my mom friends are just people I was friends with before we had kids!

But I'm slowly starting to make a couple other mom friends. Mostly through work. You run into a coworker and get to talking and realize that your kids are similar in age and that you have stuff in common (plus you both work, so you know you only have weekends free, etc). Just realized one of the ladies at my work who has a boy slightly older than Xander actually lives 5 minutes from me!

I find it difficult to maintain friendships these days, I am really outgoing and meet people easily, but where I fall down is planning meet ups. I find that on the weekends, a lot of the time, we just want to stay at our house...we have a pool and a play set. I am terrible at inviting friends over and will forget until the last possible second, and then everyone already has plans.

Pretty much at the playground or through daycare/school.

Mr. Bee used to come home after Charlie was asleep, so I took him to the playground and fed him dinner there. I met a lot of moms that way and became very close to one that we now have a standing dinner playdate with every Saturday.

It's easier in daycare when you start getting invited to each other's birthday parties and chat with parents in the mornings and evenings.

I've met mom friends from meetup/FB mom groups as a full time working mom. We have one devoted to our neighborhood and a few other mom related ones that I'm a part of. We also know parents from the park and at classes. Our first months with LO were hard, so we didn't get out much. Next time around, we'll have to be out with an active toddler, so it'll make the transition easier.

I just let my first mom friend at the Pediatricians office! It should be a little easier to me since I only work 3/4 time but we haven't been getting out much on my days off yet. Now that she's 6 months and crawling/more aware of her surroundings, I think going to more group things will be fun for both of us.

And an entertaining post about just this....

http://www.scarymommy.com/making-mom-friends-2/

I also live in an area where it seems like everything is geared towards SAHMs. So far, I haven't really met anyone. Someone in the area made a FB page for us WOHMs as a spin off of the main one but it hasn't really had a lot of traction other than when it was first created. I tried to get people together to just go for a walk during the week to meet people and get some exercise but there wasn't any interest. DS has a few good friends at daycare but I don't run into their parents during drop off/pick up enough to strike up the conversation. So, I'm hoping it will get easier as he gets older and is into more things.

@My Only Sunshine: I read it the day before I struck up a conversation with my new mom friend lol. It actually gave me the push to do it. It soo feels like dating! We ended up having tons in common (and our girls are 4 hours apart born at the same hospital!) so I'm glad I went for it. It's not easy but I think as kids get older it gets easier. I think the park, grocery store, etc are all great places to find a mom friend if you see them with kids, find anything to strike up a conversation with!

My good friends didn't have kids for a while or are still childless BUT a lot of their friends had kids around my LO's age. So we ended up become close friends to friends of friends. It was funny how that worked out.

We also do gymboree but we never made friends from that and we have been doing that for over 2 years, but we like it because LO doesn't go to daycare yet (grandma care) and it gives him a chance to see a lot of kids his age and interact with different personalities.

Through the neighbourhood playground. DH and i committed taking LO to the playground in the mornings and afternoons on both Saturdays and Sundays (one of us would take her). We eventually made a bunch of mom/dad friends.