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[quote=Anonymous]Join your neighborhood facebook groups. Where I live there are several- one for my specific development, one for the closer general area, one for the broader general area. Then there are several mom groups- one general mom group for the area I live in, then several spin-off groups based on your baby's birth year. There's another county-wide group for birth year.

I'm not particularly active in any of these groups besides chiming in on the occasional request for info or posting stuff to give away/donate, but I could post right this minute in any of them that I have an emergency and need someone to help with my kid/drive us to the hospital/whatever, and half a dozen people would respond offering to help. I've seen it happen a million times, even moms saying, "our whole family has the flu, can anyone recommend their grocery delivery?" and a bunch of other moms say, "I'll be right over with a casserole and chicken soup!" Mind you, this is in an area where no one says hello in person at the store, half my neighbors don't wave back, etc. But for whatever reason, the online community (presumably comprising the same people) is very generous and helpful.

I didn't read all 8 pages so I don't know exactly where you are, OP. I get that you feel like friends aren't an option, or you don't want to leave your kid with a stranger. I'd join these groups now and post what you've posted here. You'll probably get people offering to help and you can meet them ahead of time. Listen, I don't really know my neighbors well and I wouldn't ask them to babysit for a date night, but an emergency is an emergency and if I really needed their help, I would go to them. Plus, the odds of a local mom in your local mom facebook group, whose profile you can vet, being some nefarious danger to your kid...those odds are slim at best.  [/quote]

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