just wanted to ask how old your baby is? the reason i ask is, my nearly 3 year old has gotten remarkably better at entertaining herself now that we have a new baby, he is 5 weeks old... in the beginning she was always asking me to do things for her, or play etc, but i was always feeding the baby, so she has sort of adjusted... she does watch more tv than i would like, but i am recovering physically from the birth and am meant to be on 4 hours bed rest a day (yeah right), so i am not beating myself up too much about the tv watching...

also with our new baby, initially i was spending time trying to get him to sleep, but now i have given up on that as i just don't have the luxury of spending time doing that, so i put him down in his vibrating chair/rocker with his dummy and he will sometimes drift off, sometimes i put him in the cot and leave him to it, and other times when nothing will work he goes in the baby swing, or in the pram... if he doesn't sleep he doesn't sleep, i provide the opportunity for him, but i just can't spend lots of time trying to get him to do it, if that makes sense...

also perhaps instead of your baby sleeping at home, you could go out for a walk to the park etc, and baby has the opportunity to sleep in the pram... i know that doesn't help much with you getting some quiet time.... perhaps build a cubby with a sheet and let him take toys in... sorry i'm pretty hopeless... i usually sit on the couch and ask her to do things, like set the train set up, or get a book for me to read while i feed..... another thing to do is take away half his toys and put them away for a few weeks, then slowly reintroduce them, and hopefully he has a renewed interest in them.... or put them away and get one out the next time you have to feed etc....

good luck xx