First time mom! Moved to a new state, no family and it’s so hard to make consistent reliable friends

How are people making friends because it seems to me that unless you went to school with them it’s so hard to make friends especially like-minded friends, moving to a new state and not having family around, it’s been rough trying to navigate being a mom and not having an outlet with friends so that you can feel like yourself!

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Girl, you’re not alone. Same here. Let me know if you figured out how.

Same. We have lived in several different states only time I made friends was working. Also all our family is in Cali. It's very difficult not having any local support

Same here. We’ve been here over a year and just now meeting people but none of it’s consistent at all. My son is always asking about so and so but life has everyone so busy. Me and him are home all day so it’s hard for sure

Same I’m struggling 🫠

Yeah. I moved from cali in 2025. It's definitely difficult

Even living here for years moving to a new area over 80 miles away from everyone we know it's hard after 3 yrs nothing really

Same here — moved from NJ to FL almost 3 years ago, and I haven’t made any friends.

Here we go, now we have a group of lovely ladies looking for a friend with babies. Maybe we can find a place to meet up????

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Am I being unreasonable?

So, long story short our 2nd child is due at the end of July, my partner has a long weekend with his friends 2 weeks before our due date. He agreed months ago that he wouldn't go as it's too close to the due date. He has since realised that it's 2 weeks before not 1 week as he originally thought it was and is now debating going... It is 2-3hrs away in good traffic...

We have been told that it's likely our baby will arrive early due to our 1st being a C-section. I have said that I will not be happy with him if he changes his mind and risks potentially being stuck in traffic trying to get home whilst I'm in labour, with our toddler and no car. His solution was for us to go with him and risk giving birth MILES away from home and our maternity team. I have told him that, that isn't an option and I'm not risking giving birth in traffic trying to make it back home...

Am I being unreasonable for being upset/angry with him, if he decides to go after agreeing not to MONTHS ago, due to our circumstances and it being SO CLOSE to our due date? (Our first child was a difficult birth, resulting in an emergency C-section)

Question for mums

okay soooo I haven’t had sex all my pregnancy well up until I was 8 weeks. Now I’m 37 weeks and couple of days. If I’m starting to loose a bit of my mucus plug. Also having tight contractions every 10 mins as the doctors and midwives have said. I was admitted in for just a day. But it wasn’t something to be concerned about as they said it’s braxton hicks or whatever it’s called
So if I have sex now would that possibly risk me getting into labour or getting really bad contractions?
Should I not do it or should I do it?
Apparently it’s good for me so yup.
It’s my first pregnancy and all and I’m a tad bit confused.
Please help xxx

Help please!

Hey girls, when I went to the toilet today I had some brown discharge when wiping. I rang triage straight away and they have told me to monitor it. Has anyone experienced this? I’m feeling very anxious as I’ve had a loss before

Why is it so hard to make friends?

I'm looking for a bestie. I connected with someone and it seemed like we were getting along really well. We planned to meet and everything. I get it, life gets busy but how do you make friends. I'm lonely and in desperate need of a friend. Someone who actually wants to go out and do things, or just actually talk about what's going on in life.I know I'm a little weird but I can't be the only one

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All my remote working girlies report to the chat lol…. I currently work remote but I DESPERATELY need something new. I enjoy working remote but I am BURNED OUT in healthcare. Anyone do anything exciting they would like to share or work outside of healthcare?

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