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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, I'd feed the baby before you get in the car, even if it's not a full feed and just "tops off" the baby until you get home and can do a full feed.

and, when you just can't plan ahead and both are crying, unless someone is in danger, I tend to the youngest first.  Feed the baby.  disengage from th 3 year old who is lying on the floor sreaming about going potty.

Walk away, go to another room and feed the baby.  then you have one problem solved.  By the time you finish with the baby your older one will have gotten over her potty trantrum and will either have gone potty herself, fallen asleep on the floor out of tiredness or (more likely) come and find you.  The walk from the room down the stairs or down the long hallway to where you are nursing baby willl help to calm her down.

then when baby is fed, you put baby down (or carry in Ergo if won't be put down) and you can tend to your daughter - insist she goes potty, then help her into bed, sing her a song and she can go to sleep.

And if these techniques of

1) pre-plan to feed baby to head those things off AND 
2) dealing with the youngest (unless in danger) first, whose problem will be immediately be solved by feeding.

don't work and the rage builds, then it's PPD and you really should see someone.  No harm, no foul, many women get it, get help and you'll move through it with help![/quote]

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