Toddler group blues

Go to toddler groups.. Best way to meet new people.. Great socialising for your kid.. Great socialising for you.. It gets you out..

I have been told this points over and over again. I believed them. All of them. I have been going to as many groups as I can get into. Little T loves the groups, or rather he likes staring at other children as they stare back at him occasionally they will make noises to each other - such is baby socialising.. What happened to mummy making friends?! I try talking to other mums, ''awww he's/she's cute how old..'' ''that is an adorable outfit/smile/eyes''(obv to the baby I am not hitting on the mothers!) and a list of other open ended conversation starters.. To maybe have one word answers back or be spoken to for a bit til their friend gets there or to loose them half way through talking - I was sat at a group yesterday little T was playing with the sensory cloths they had out, loved watching his face on each cloth and then how he would watch the other children play.. I tried to speak to a couple of people to not get very far.. even the women who run the group, one came over to talk then mid sentence just stopped and that was that she was suddenly talking to someone else.. Now I don't mind if it is busy and everyone has their own things but I bet if I was to start a conversation with someone and as they answered just started talking to someone else I would be called rude and probably some other choice names as well.. I go to adventure babies every Tuesday, I love the groups, there is

sensory, songs and stories - whats not to love right?! This is my third group of 7 weeks.. In those times I get a hey, from the people who go but that is it.. made one friend who used to sit and spend the session talking with me though she has now stopped going due to work and such.. So.. It is a small group.. but majority of them are in their own cliques or seem to be uninterested in doing the mum socialising.. So I go. we sing, we read, we play and we go home.. Why is it so difficult to make friends when your babies are that, still babies, little T isn't crawling or climbing yet so parents of the movers all huddle together.. He isn't a new born anymore so those parents huddle together.. he is almost sitting though not completely and not on his own, so again those parents all huddle together.. I mean what group do we fit into?! there was a fair sized group for my antenatal classes, I thought I would maybe see one or two of them at the baby groups but nothing.. All Oct/Nov babies have vanished.. I want some friends, I don't really drink, I game though recently haven't really done much gaming with being mummy and doing mummy things, I read books when I get the chance and I mean actual books not the ''That's not my pirate!.. '' kinda books.. I enjoy texting though rarely have people to text.. I like being outside and I love photography.. Does anyone share at least one of my interests? :(