How important are friends with children the same age?

[LouiseB]

I moved to a small village several months back and when i found out that three other women were all ttc i thought it was fantastic!

I have all these visions of sharing babysitting and going to places together and just having someone to speak to face to face.

Well...

One clearly isn't interested in friends and the other had an ectopic pregnancy so isn't trying for a while.

The third is pregnant, i am aiming to have a child in the same school year as her baby, but she is turning out to be so unreliable that my husband hates her - and he doesn't normally hate anyone!

She just strings me along all the time and then lets me down at the very last minute, always by text even though she has my home number.

It has nothing to do with her pregnancy btw.

I would normally just forget about her, but i keep thinking that it would be so nice to have a friend living so close with a child the same age as mine. We are miles away from the next village...

How important is it to have friends with babies when you have a baby?

 

[flexilexi394]

hello! im pregnant with my first child and would also love a friend close by with a child similar age, so totally see where you are coming from!! if shes not interested, then do try and forget about her. you never know, someone else local may fall pregnant! i think any friends are valuable to be honest, not necessarily with children. i am yet to meet people that are pregnant, only on here!! so just going to play it by ear to be honest and if i meet anyone ill be more than happy to be someones friend! x

 

[AugustMum]

I dont know whether its important but it is always nice to be able to have somebody that can relate to how things are happening around the same time.

Ive been very fortunate in that my LOs cousin was born last friday, so they will only be 3 weeks apart in age, and a friend who Ive recently got back in contact with is due next week. Im not sure what I would have done without them as its been great to have somebody that I can always talk to.

I think you'll probably end up meeting a few people just by chance as it goes along.