Do the SAHMs out there have friends who are also SAHMs? If so, do you arrange to spend time with the or do play dates during the day?
If you don't have friends that also stay home, do you get lonely during the day?
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I have a number of friends who are SAHMs. We get together at least once a week, and we all look forward to our gatherings! It can get lonely sometimes, especially when the weather stinks, but if you can arrange play dates and have a couple of classes going, it's not bad at all.
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I would say that most of my friends are now SAHMs. I meet them at a Baby BootCamp that has classes during the day (so you have to be a SAHM to even participate). If it wasn't for them during the week I would lose it! I'm even lucky enough that my next door neighbor is a SAHM and has children who are the same age as mine, so that is an IMMENSE help. For my other SAHM friends, we do a playdate at least once a week, besides seeing each other at Bootcamp.
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I was the first one in my group of friends to have a baby so nope! I was part of a mum's group for a while but they were pretty snobby so I stopped going. I don't usually get lonely, dh has a rotating roster so I spend a bit of time with him. And my friends like the novelty of holding a baby so I meet up with them quite often.
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I do have SAHM friends now but I didn't when I became a mom. I joined a moms group and met friends there. That group meets once every two weeks plus activities in between. It does help to break up the monotony and loneliness.
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I didn't have many SAHM friends before I had DD, but I met a lot through play groups in my area. I spend most of my time with them now.
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I am the first among my friends to get married and now I'm the only one who has a kid. So no SAHM friends for me. I need to get out and meet people, but I'm really shy and not good at introducing myself.
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Most of my friends that have kids are SAHMs. We have a weekly play group in addition to impromptu get-togethers. I'm very thankful for them!
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@yin: I'm among the last of my friends to have kids so all my friends are back at work with kids in school...so I had to make new SAHM friends once I had LO.
I met one friend in my birthing class and our girls are one month apart and we hang out about once a week. I've met several other friends in a mom group I joined through meetup.com...it took a while though bc at first all the moms had kids older than LO so we didn't have much in common but then other moms joined with kids closer in age to my LO and now I have a few friends that I see at the meetup events or we just do our own play dates. The best place I've met new mom friends are at our local community center where they have open play times for toddlers and story time...I've met so many nice moms and dads!!! It's definitely my favorite activity to do with LO at the moment (she's 16 months). Another great place I've met a few mom friends is storytime at the library.
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I get so lonely!!! about once a month I do a playdate with my sister, she works as a nanny so she's kind of a SAHM in that her son never has to leave her, but she still works at least 2x a week and some weeks 5x/week.
I have another friend who is a SAHM and we need to do more playdates! We used to when our LOs were younger and haven't recently because of it being winter (I don't have a car during the winter). I will have many more playdates during the summer!
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I've met a lot of moms through mom/baby groups. A and I go to groups 4 days a week. I'm at a point now that I'm starting to hang out outside of the groups with moms who have babies around A's age.
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All of my mommy friends work
on the plus side, they are all teachers so I have the whole summer with them! I need more SAHM friends. I feel like all my wohm friends look at me like I'm crazy when I complain about DD or just give me the "I'd do anything to stay home so Id never complain" attitude I am looking into a locally moms group
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I've met a lot of new friends over the past few months! I joined a meetup group and I had a friend introduce me to all of her friends. I also started talking to some of the other moms in baby classes and have gotten to know 1-2 people that way.
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I'm just starting as a SAHM, but I have several friends who are in the same position and I definitely plan to meet up for some social interaction. I left the house today for the first time since bringing baby home and felt so much more alive! I forgot there was a world out there.
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I had a lot of SAHM friends where we used to live, but we moved to a new city recently and I haven't made any friends here yet. I joined a couple meetup groups and we do a lot of activities throughout the week, we just haven't had anything click yet. It can be a little lonely; I'm working to meet new people, though, so hopefully we'll have more friends in the area soon.
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@Mrs. Pen: @Honeybee: I get pretty lonely too! I don't have many friends in the city we live in, and the few I do have are single, working and childless.
I also don't drive, and we just moved away from the main public transport routes. It's hard. I'm working on convincing myself to try and make some friends round here, but I'm kinda anti social at the same time!!
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None whatsoever! Everyone's a SAHM/D for the 1st year over here because the paternity leave is so generous, plus daycares will only admit a child that's at least a year old.
As for SAH after, I don't think it's very common, even with the foreign bunch because that's when we can resume language studies. I'm not sure what I'm going to do because I want to see if she's ready for daycare first, but since play dates are close to impossible, I might put her in anyway and start part-time work and studies.
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I have two sahm friends, but they live kind of far away. We get together once in awhile. I'm always out and about though so I don't get lonely. Gymboree, library, all sorts of errands, the play ground.
on the plus side, they are all teachers so I have the whole summer with them! I need more SAHM friends. I feel like all my wohm friends look at me like I'm crazy when I complain about DD or just give me the "I'd do anything to stay home so Id never complain" attitude Reply
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