I was SO THERE! I can't tell you how frustrated I am that virtually ALL mommy/baby mommy/toddler etc. activities are smack dab in the middle of the work day. My favorite one is the mommy/child stroller ride and coffee hour in the residential/shopping area center
in which I work, which I cannot attend ever due to the fact that, yeah, I'm working. All the LLL meetings here are during the work day even, except one which still takes place well before I could actually get home, get DD, and get there. There's a babywearing group around here I'd love to go to, but they only had one weekend meeting and they cancelled it due to lack of interest (???) before I found out about it
It turns out, though, that other working mommies were frustrated with the situation too, and one of them started a working moms and toddlers playgroup that now gets together about twice per month, on the
weekends. It's not necessarily NFL/AP inspired, and although there are some mommies there who had natural births, breastfed for several months at least, and attempted babywearing, I'm definitely the only one in the group nursing a non-newborn right now (my DD is 17 months old, and the littlest child in the group is 13 months old), babywearing a toddler, CDing at alll, or co-sleeping. But, that aside, none of us are at all judgmental of each other--no one has ever said an unkind word to me about any of my parenting choices, and I have not done so about anyone else's either--and I actually find we have a TON in common just because we're all working mamas! So, maybe sometime you could try starting a group like this, it's been such a joy and comfort to me, and I've really made some wonderful friends through it--as has DD!
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The lady who started ours did it via meetup.com. It's been very successful at attracting new mommies and toddlers, as it is literally (and sadly) the only playgroup that meets on the weekends around here.
