I hate maternity leave

[Brownk]

New to this so not sure how it works but, is anyone else hating maternity leave? I love my baby, I love spending time with her but doing it 24/7 is SO BORING. She sleeps well, eats well, is healthy and I feel so silly complaining that she’s so good? But I just don’t feel like I’m made to stay at home with a baby all the time. I have no family that can care for her and no place as daycare until January 2025 so I feel so stuck.

Can you swap with your partner? You go back to work and they take parental leave?

Get out and about.
Find a local baby/toddler group (if there's NCT in your area, they run socials).
Join a gym with a creche.

Go out. Make lots of friends with babies (peanut app is good for that- or was 2 years ago when I had mine, still have lots of friends I made from there that we have play dates with).
Go to baby groups. Most libraries have free rhyme time (also met good friends from there).
As someone else suggested, if available in your area join a gym with a crèche.
We were always busy and I loved my mat leave. But you do need to get out and talk to adults. Being home with a baby waving toys in their face is definitely not fun!

Go out then? Especially if baby is good. There’s at least one baby group a day in our town, but also do things you enjoy whilst baby is too young to know; like go for walks, visit museums/galleries? Do you know people you could meet for lunch or coffee? Baby swimming?

Really normal, babies are quite boring really from an adult point of view.
You're right at the very beginning of all the human development that will one day be an articulate funny wise adult... So it's super super basic.
And yet every human interaction you have with her is laying the foundations for that future adult so are as crucial as they are tedious.
The only way I stayed sane through it was to make sure I got outside every day and got as much adult interaction as was at all possible as often as possible. I went to everything going, all the baby classes, museums, walks through the woods (dog walkers love a good chat with someone pushing a pram and I had a dig myself, but would have anyway).

It is relentless. (I'm on leave now, so living it)
I found the first few weeks the worst because I was stuck at home post c section and there's nothing other than a park within a mile of us. After I could walk further and drive things got a lot better.
I didn't join any baby groups until mine was 5 months old as I didn't see the point. We go to a stay and play once a week, and have started a messy play one on another day.
I'm a bit socially awkward though, and pretty crap at "mum chat" so I don't enjoy a lot of that. I'm also going back to work soon whereas the mum's I met at these groups aren't so it seems a bit pointless trying to make friends when soon I'll never see them again.
We do a lot of walks around parks, go to the library and baby knows the inside of every b&m in a 10 mile radius.
Whatever little routine you want to put into place will help.
Hopefully you find something that works for you

Take take up a short time consuming hobby ? I don't anything painting cards ?

Baby groups aren't for the baby they're for the parents! At least you get to have a cuppa and chat to some other people.

Yes you Will end up having superficial conversations about poop, sleep etc but you might also make some friends. I found the church hall cheapo ones best as they're unstructured and more chill but that's area dependent really. You might prefer an actual class like baby sensory. Basically get out of the house. You're bored because babies are mostly boring - beautiful and magical but also boring 😊