To ask what you did on maternity leave ...

[catsonlaps]

Bit worried about this. Well, not worried but wondering.

How do you fill time on leave? I'm so used to charging around that I worry I'll get a bit bored ... :)

Most of our activities did revolve around getting a coffee and trying to get DS to sleep. He wasn't much of a napper indoors, unfortunately.

I looked after my baby. And myself, when I could. I had no time to be bored.

read the post, no time to read the thread (shouldn't be messing about on MN if truth be told).
Firstly, you never know what might happen, you and/or baby might be ill (we were), baby might get colic etc etc, so you might not have this problem.
Secondly, if you do have the problem of not knowing what to do with yourself, spend part of the time counting your blessings. I've had to become a parent as a single person and I've got loads of other stuff to sort so I barely have time to shower once a week (TMI, sorry!). It seems to be getting a bit better for now, but I know my baby will go through phases (dreading teething) where the situation may well regress. I too had a very busy job and life, I find that looking after a newborn is worse in some ways cos there is never any time off and there's no one I can hand her too, not even for a minute (unless someone is visiting), even though most of the work is menial it's constant and unpredictable. Without my friend sometimes cooking me meals and freezing them, i'd just be eating crap all the time instead of most of the time.
Oh and be prepared for breastfeeding to be an utter nightmare and to not get the help you need with it and to need to mixed feed. Trying to work out how the hell to sterilise things and mix up the feed when you're still recovering from the birth and gutted about breastfeeding being so hard is no fun at all. 81% of women start breastfeeding in hospital, this figure falls to 40-odd % after the first week cos we don't get the help we need then and are not told how to prepare for it beforehand.

Walk miles while baby sleeps
Walk everywhere to make sure baby is well rested when you get there, which takes ages.
Buggyfit
Baby signing
Washing. Quantities of washing I never imagined.
With dd1, watched a lot of tv while she slept on me. With dd2, a lot of cbeebies.
Baby groups at children's centre / rhyme time at library

It's not boring like doing nothing is boring but it can be quite tedious. Fortunately I'm so sleep deprived, I couldn't cope with anything more exciting!

I got very bored and did a load of exam marking, which I enjoyed and earned me a bit of cash (I am a teacher so it kept my subject knowledge up to date too). I think my limit with aimless coffee having with women I don't know very well is about 3 months! I was driven bonkers by the apparent inability of other women with babies to get anywhere within 2 hours of a meeting time (my DD was a bit of an easy child maybe?) and by the lack of conversation about anything not child related. My random top tip is to get your finances up to date before DC arrives, as there won't be time after. Really glad I did. I also did the gym with the creche and it was very good - something to look forward to.

Went shopping for baby stuff.
Lots of coffee shop trips.
Decluttering the house.

The last week before the birth I spent practically all day in bed surrounded by food watching Netflixs.

I played Lemmings on the PC ( that dates me ) looked after the baby and house as you would expect. I also did an exercise program using videos to get rid of some weight I'd put on.

I also made sure I went out every day come what may. Sometimes it was hard and I didn't feel like it but I forced myself too. I made a group of friends through maternity groups so we met as a groups or one on one. I also popped into work for meetings - I bought the baby - it kept me in the loop, was helpful for work and was interesting

I enjoyed my leave but I was a bit bored at times. I loved my baby but they are not good conversationalists

KIT days too.