Helper

It’s difficult to do everything alone.. even we as mums struggle. So, you’ll need to manage your expectations, and also help her plan the day. If you can feed your baby in the morning before work, then she can load up the washing machine, and sweep the floor. After you leave, her priority should be on caring for baby. See if you can get her easy to prepare ingredients, so she gets to eat her meals too. As for dinner, if you want her to cook, and your work doesn’t finish late, let her cook after you or your husband come home, and allow for less dishes. Teach her how to use the timer function on the rice cooker so that can be prepared way beforehand. If you’re willing to spend on kitchen tools that speed up food preparation, that would help greatly too. It would be dangerous if she spent hours in the kitchen preparing while your baby was left alone unattended. Your baby’s schedule would still be erratic at this point, and if she struggles to put baby to sleep/feed baby, then she’s left with even less time to cook dinner. At night, please let her sleep at a decent time too, so that she’s well rested to take care of baby and doesn’t fall sick.. her falling sick doesn’t benefit anyone. You and your husband can look after baby at night (you’d also want to, because you’ll miss your baby so much ☺️).

It's the opposite for me, my helper says she can handle by herself but I always feel bad about it. Your baby probably still sleeps a lot in the day so she can use those times to do the chores, though it probably will get more challenging once your baby is older and more active/sleeps less. I try to help with cooking by planning the whole week's meals in advance and shop for the ingredients in the weekends. If you reach home at 530 it should be enough time to start cooking then, but if it's really too hard I guess it's OK to eat out or order grab food once in a while? Baby is still priority. Anyway my helper can handle it just fine and my baby is a super active 14mo so yours should be fine 😁

My helper usually wake up earlier around 6 so she can help to prepare breakfast (me and hubby leaving at 7) and load the laundry. LO wake up time at 9 so she have ample time to clean hse. After that shes all on LO time. During the day when LO nap, she will continue with chores, until I rch home (abt 6) and I will take care of LO while she go cook dinner and wash up. But for your case, shouldn't be no problem as LO is still quite small and naps most of the time.

You can list down what you normally do. Note down estimated time for your baby’s sleeping & milk/meals/bathing schedule. Actually when she awake, can sweep n mop e floor first. If baby awake early eg 6.30am, then can do later abit. When baby is sleeping, she can quickly wash bottles/ sweeping/laundry /cooking etc She can Use baby’s sleeping time to do some work :)