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Old Sep 11, 2006 | 9:17 pm
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bambi47
 
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Originally Posted by lg10
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
Taking your children's drinks is just wrong. As I said, I am no longer with the TSA, but i have a very close friend that is a Federal Screening Manager. I spoke with her last night and she said that they are not enforcing the water thing unless the kids are older, Like 10 and above. But as I've stated before, the rules change from supervisor to supervisor and manager to manager in each airport. And there are some doozies (?) in each airport I'm sure. Anyway, I'm sorry for the ridiculous things you've had to endure.
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