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January 24, 2014 09:07 pm GMT

Mom Meet Mom Is A Match.com For The Stroller Crowd

mommeetmomPeople may warn you that parenting can be a tougher job than you expected, but they never seem to warn you that it can be a lonely one, too. Mom Meet Mom, anup-and-coming service built by three women who have struggled with this difficult, but often undiscussed, aspect to parenting, is trying to help. Having kids changes everything, or so they say. And while it brings joys of its own, your social life can easily go down the drain, too. You canno longer drop everything to rush out for dancing and drinks. A date night turns into a $100+ affair once you factor in the babysitter. And even if you could afford these things at every turn, you still have obligations to…you know… actually be around your kids sometimes. Mom Meet Mom, which is most easily understood as a sort of “Match.com for moms,” was founded a couple of years ago by longtime friends,Julia High, who has a background in computational cognitive neuroscience, and Christa Terry, an independent editor and content developer for websites. The two were later joined byMeg Gerritson, whose background is in advertising. High says that the idea for the site came about after she moved from D.C., where she had spent years working for an area think tank, to Seattle. Her eldest daughter was one-and-a-half at the time, and meeting new parents, especially moms, was a challenge, she says. “I was spending time at playgrounds…and either everybody was already in one of those groups – you know, where you look over and all you see is backs,” she explains. Or when she did meet someone interesting, there was that awkward moment where you have to try to get the mom’s number – “without being in a bar and having a beer first!,” laughs High. SoHigh and Terry decided to do something about it, and build a website where moms could connect with others for not just playdates, but also real friendships. Around a year into development,Gerritson reached out – she had been working on a similar site of her own. So the three decided to combine forces. The new site, which launched last year on Mother’s Day, originally focused on the Boston area where two of the three founders now reside. It has now grown to over 10,000 users and expanded nationwide, where it’s currently gaining traction in NY, Seattle, and parts of California, in

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