Mothers Groups...yay or nay?

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I'm sure you'll get a lot of feedback on this topic! I feel really disappointed about my mothers group and have only just decided on Tuesday that I am not going any more Mainly because they are so different to me. They all feed their babies crap food which is really important to me and they bring their babies along sick even with really contagious things like Hand Foot and Mouth I kid you not!! so this really annoys me. Plus they are as you said in your post fake, clicky, snobby etc but hey my mothers group is in a snobby area so what did I expect!?! Another major thing for me is that none of the other dads were interested in their babies and my dh was the only one who ever came along to a get together, each to their own but I'd rather be building relationships with people who think more along the same lines as us. I have however tagged along to another group a few times which is closer to where I live and they are completely different and way more relaxed. From my original mothers group I have one mum that I hang out with heaps so it wasn't a bad thing going along there and the 2nd group most of them seem like they could become good friends Only one girl even appears to have similar parenting ideas to me and used to work in a similar field to me so we have heaps to chat about. I am hoping that when ds is older and I start him in a steiner play group that I will meet more parents and maybe have more supportive mums around me for our 2nd bub. Thankfully dh is amazing and what the mothers group lacks he makes up for 100000%

Just reading back in the posts, the ABA feedback sounds great. I have called them for advice a few times and I think dh and I might be moving soon so I will call and meet up with a group near wherever we move. No one in my original mothers group breastfed like I do and noone co-slept and I had some really nasty comments like I was going to kill my baby sleeping with him!!! grrrr and looks of horror that I demand feed my DS