Help, advice needed. 10 week old baby

[Tabbycat1]

So I've had the baby and am feeling a bit underwhelmed with it all. I miss work, I miss adult conversation and I'm worried I'm not doing enough for the baby. I'm also going insane sitting in a chair trying to entertain him for 12 hours a day. I can't see myself lasting the full 6 months of maternity leave if all I have to do is pull faces, shake rattles, change nappies and feed him. I've started going to some baby groups (most have been closed over the school holidays) and it's a bit better it helps break up the day, I don't know anyone in the immediate area so it gives me the chance to talk to someone, however there are only 3 a week on consecutive days so I have 4 days of just sitting here. What does everyone else do in their day? Is it normal to sit and wave toys, sing songs and pull faces for hours on end? He sleeps all night so is awake all day and I don't know what I can do to keep him happy without slowly going insane myself with the banality of it all. I live in a village and there is a coffee shop and pub but I don't want to sit there for hours on my own just to have some human interaction. Any advice would be appreciated.

Have you tried the app Mush? It's an app to help connect mums. I found it really useful in the early days as I found mums weren't that chatty at classes and I needed some people to talk to!
Another good app is Hoop. This is for local activities and classes.
The first three months are the hardest as you adjust to life as a mum and in some ways, it is when the baby is the least interesting. After three months they really do start becoming real people. They start to engage, and move!

Also, I find that having an activity a day really helps. It could be anything, food shopping, baby class, coffee mum date, baby group, weigh in. Anything! If you just get up and out to do one thing it breaks up the day.

Walking everywhere is good too because it uses up more time and it is exercise.

But don't feel bad about not doing much with them at this age, mine didn't care about anything I tried to do with him so I gave up and just did things I wanted to do and brought him along!

Try doing a baby development/sensory class as it can help with ideas of what to do with your baby.

Do you have a car? Just go out to places you would enjoy, the baby doesn't care where you are. I did a lot of National Trust places, walks in the woods and shopping trips. I also made some friends with babies to have coffee or lunch with - the first time through NCT, the second time through going to the same group every week until I plucked up the courage to suggest exchanging phone numbers. Babies can be pretty dull when they are young but they are also very portable and easy to entertain.

Go out. As PP said, your baby is at the most portable age, so go shopping, swimming, walking, whatever you like. The baby will be entertained by watching you do whatever you need to do, they don't need constant stimulation. Also, Why are you alone the other 4 days? Is there no DP/DH to help? If you really hate it, can you go back to work?

You need to work out what you want to do and then try and drag the baby along too.

Absolutely what pp have said. Do what you want and the baby comes too. He'll be entertained by very simple things at this age and will also need a bit of down time even if he doesn't sleep so no need to try to entertain him all day. You sound like you're doing a great job but go easier on yourself.