I have a friend with a 20 month-old and is due with a second child in May. Her son did not sleep through the night until he was 18 months old. She is already sleep deprived and feeling overwhelmed, so she is really worried about how she is going to manage an infant on top of things.

Her husband has been unemployed for over a year, but does very, very little to help out. She is the one who gets up at night, makes all the meals, cleans the house, changes diapers, gives baths, deals with illnesses, plays with her son, takes him to physical therapy twice a week, etc. She has no family nearby. She has NO help.

What are some very simple ways (as in he won’t have to do much more than lift a finger) he can help her out and take something off of her shoulders? She has tried talking to him and asking him, there must be another approach? I am so worried about her.

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