I breast fed and had a very clingy baby which made it very hard to leave her for more than 2h until she was about a year. I'm lucky though and have friends with babies so I could meet them for cups of tea whenever. husband and I would just have date night's in the house, takeaway, DVD, Mobile phones off kind of thing.
once she turned one id leave her with husband maybe one a month for some sort of night with my friends and my mum would have her so husband and I could do things to. even now I don't get loads of time to myself but DD is most important