Monaloca

The other day a non-mom friend (who I also like to think of as a “future mom”) asked me, “So how do these ubiquitous moms groups form, anyway?” I laughed, remembering I used to wonder the same thing. Then I told her of my yoga moms group, about seven or eight women who exchanged email addresses during a prenatal yoga class last spring.

We started meeting informally before a single baby was born, and a few moms are still awaiting their little one’s arrival. We have a Yahoo group to exchange messages, and tend to meet about once/week: at a kid-friendly cafe, someone’s house, or, as with yesterday, for lunch at Jupiter’s garden in downtown Berkeley. Basically, anywhere we feel comfortable breastfeeding, though as the babies grow we’ve also started looking for room for them to spread out and “play.”

This group of women has been a great support to me, and more importantly, a great new social network. I look forward to seeing our kids grow together!

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