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Fix running out, lost a salary, options?

Do we have any really? Our fixed deal runs out at the end of May, we're currently on 5.89% and we'll drop to 4.99%. However there are much better deals out there if we could get one as we owe £121,000 on a £180,000 house. I was made redundant at the end of March, so we only have my husband's salaries now which are £24,000 and around £6000 from his second job. Realistically there isn't a huge hope of me getting another job for a while as I'm 24 weeks pregnant with a very noticeable bump, and with DD not in nursery part time until April next year it's unlikely to stack up for me to work and put both of them in nursery. We're not struggling, we've been overpaying the mortgage by £55 a month for 2 years, but it would be nice to get a lower rate fix and be making overpayments rather than paying extra interest. Is there anywhere may offer us a new deal with just my husband's income?
Debt January 1st 2018 £96,999.81
Debt September 20th 2022 £2991.68- 96.92% paid off
Met NIM 23/06/2008
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