Jessica and Bath - it seems the only way to really make sure you get your own time is to have it 'scheduled in' each week. The earlier posters who had regular time out also seemed to have this at set times or for specific activities.

Nicambhar - Most gyms should have some kind of child/baby supervision, especially if they want the mum market to walk in their door. I hope you find one you like! After thinking about it all day, I'm not yet comfortable to leave DS in a child area at the gym just yet - he's only 8 months old and doesn't move under his own steam yet (even rolling doesn't really happen much). It might be different if he could crawl or walk away from older/bigger kids but I'm not sure I could leave him yet. I'd worry too much. There are four classes a week I can still get to when DP should be home so I think I'm going to aim to attend some of them (all might be asking a bit much LOL!).