if it makes you feel better take along a friend or sister or your mum etc. For our first mothers group meet up (we were all 1st time mums with bubs all born within an 8 week period of eachother) lots of the girls/ladies took ppl with them. It started off a large group of 17 but no's have dwindled to about 10 regulars. I learn from the other mums, my DD is socialising (she is now 19 months)and many of us are pg again so we are all in similar situations and live within 10 mins of eachother. I have made 1 close friend through the group and just for meeting her its all been worth it.