I agree.. feed her, hand her over and walk away. No better way for the other half to learn how to parent the baby. Offer some ideas on what to do.. if she's tired, perhaps she can rock her to sleep in the pram, or going for a walk in the garden seemed to work for our kids. Shel's gotta find HER way of settling Jazz.

It irritated me too when I'd get handed the upset baby to feed, but hey, you have to admit it's pretty special being the only one who can do that

If you only go out for 1/2 a day or something, she can easily survive on water & solids until you get back, no real need to express or force her to have EBM from a cup or anything if she doesn't want it. It's really just a case of Shel working out ways of distracting/entertaining Jazz and possibly getting her to sleep until you get back. Sounds overwhelming I guess, but really, she just has to get in and do it.. it's not THAT hard.