ROTFLOL! Good point.
Maybe she was dehydrated? LMAO
I am a mommy and I'm special. But seriously, why not do some sensible profiling and stop harassing Americans?
This treatment is udderly ridiculous.
I know that's a clever line, but my wife has to express milk every day so I can bottle-feed my son in her absence.
I swear, there are times when I'd value those little plastic bags over bags of gold. That she had to throw them away after following all the rules is criminal, but not unexpected.
The "original containers" have limited capacity. In addition to physical discomfort associated with not emptying them, their production will quickly slow in response to not being emptied regularly. The little tyke is entitled to all his mama can produce.
I find this whole liquids thing rather silly. It is quite possible for someone to take down a plane by packing enough explosives inside of a metal sealed tube or battery LOOKING device that would fool the average TSA screening agent.
For that matter, thin film plastic explosives can be worn on the body, under a hair piece, within a belt, socks, etc.
In short, targeting the METHOD of attack is not as effective as targeting the PERSON who will be carrying out the attack.
Particularly if the airplane A/C is on high...
ROTFLOL! Good point.
Even for a one day trip, I'm a bit surprised that she only had 6 ounces of milk. This might be in the TMI category, but it only takes me about 2 hours to produce that much milk (3 oz from each side).
If she was gone most of the day, what happened to the rest of the milk. Did she not have a problem throwing that away?
Not that I'm condoning TSA for making her throw it away. It seems she followed their guidelines, and they messed up (as usual).
For cryin' out loud, the kid didn't starve. He was fed while she was gone. She didn't need to bring the milk back. Sheesh!
And that is the correct answer. Refreshing to see nowdays.
Every time I go through such a screening I get a disturbing image in my head of 19 guys in hell laughing at our goofiness in the way we confiscate breast milk and grandma's water bottle. I used to enjoy air travel. Now it feels like defeat.
I was never a Guernsey like my next door neighbor in the milk producing department, but I know if I wanted to up my production, I'd just express more milk, and voila, in the next few hours, I'd be producing more milk.
Six ounces doesn't seem like much production to me. And, yes, unless it was frozen or in a cooler, it doesn't seem like it's something I'd be wanting to give to my kid.
"Seems she was obeying the rules and they still stopped her. "
The plastic baggies are not meant for beverages, but for medical, hygenic, and cosmetic gels and liquids. If that were true, people would be slipping bottles of water, cans of coke, or containers of coffee inside those plastic bags to get them past security.
C'mon, everyone knows that breast milk is a very volatile liquid!
Just wait, they'll ban those too.
Except that she wasn't feeding her child.
True, however, let's not forget the case of the flying waitress stewardess flight attendant who got bent at the sight of a nursing mother. She would seem to be in a Catch-22 situation. (Or Catch-36DD, as the case may be.)
Breast milk is much better sucked from the source.