Originally Posted by bambi47
I think maybe you misunderstood me or I misspoke. I'm not saying that its childish to bring your own drink. What I'm saying is that you should only bring enough to get you to security. You can always get some once inside. And I don't think anyone has ever dehydrated while in the line at the checkpoint. Also, children can bring in juice boxes, etc. Why don't you drink them if your very thirsty and have a child with you, or those little 8 ounce bottles of water that they have for kids. Believe me, your not gonna get arrested for drinking your kids drinks. Screeners think this rule is as stupid as you do.
I wish we could bring juice boxes or water for the kids...but they were
confiscated because our kids are not "infants". When I have my new baby,
I'm hoping that we will be able to bring "infant water" since I will be
breast-feeding - we won't need formula but we will need water. They
do make those little bottles of sterilized water. I don't intend to share with
TSA my opinion that the infant should get just-mommy-milk while Mommy
drinks the infant water.
Also, the reality is that FA's et al. are much more sympathetic to pregnant
women than to breast-feeding women carrying possibly-noisy-babies...and
pregnant women are more mobile, so while I've been able to hike down and
ask for (and usually get) extra water on recent flights, I suspect that those
options will decrease when the baby is born.
OTOH, we can always hope/pray that the water ban is lifted in the near
future....
--LG