She has 3 small children, all under 6, and another on the way. She has someone picking the 4 and 5 year olds up from school every day, her partner gets up with the toddler every morning, and yesterday she was complaining that nobody ever seems to want to help her.
And I feel like shouting ... "Well, what did you expect? Are you agog with excitement at lumbering yourself with someone else's kids?"
I know she is pregnant, but to be honest she's had 3 kids in 5 years and is having another - she's always bloody pregnant. I will go and see her, I will let her moan to me about how fed up she is, but I'm not offering to help her any more than I would anyone else. I feel bad because I know how tiring being pregnant is ... but she was so tired last time, and I helped her a lot, and I can't help thinking she could do a little more to help herself.