Bravo, Mary!
Well said. Since none of us have walked a mile in this mom's particular
moccasins, best to lay off the judgments of her.
Martha Johnson RN IBCLC
Eugene OR
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Jozwiak IBCLC [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: Airport security
To Georgia, you could put your milk on ice in your carry on luggage and I
doubt there would be a problem. You could also call the airport to see what
the best way to transport your milk would be.
To carry on with the discussion:
I am seeing a lot of judgement of the woman involved in this story, without
knowing her personal situation. There are also other issues airport
security has to worry about other than "terrorists." There always have been
and still are other threats, not that this particular action was justified,
it was not, but it may have been an expansion of policies already in place.
I am personally lactose intolerant and the idea of drinking
an ounce, not to mentions several bottles of ANY type of mammalian milk
turns my stomach. I have tasted my own milk, and although my children have
all loved it, as a grown adult, who has NO need of any type of milk, I find
the taste rather cloying and a bit gamey. Maybe not "disgusting" but not
appetizing. Not to mention that it would make me ill. I would have spent
the entire flight in the tiny airline potty. Bleh. (I don't put my milk in
bottles in any case, but I can't judge this woman and her sitation.)
I can understand why the security would not allow her to
feed the milk to the baby. Case in point, there have been several Chicago
street gangs who "borrow" other people's babies and take them down to
Columbia or the Middle East, then fill their bottles and formula cans with
heroin or cocaine to get it through customs. If this woman's bottles had
contained drugs, (highly unlikely, but then again, I doubt if many airport
security agents are actually paid to think) the baby could have been
killed. I guess they figure that if an adult is smuggling drugs in baby
bottles they will refuse to even sip them. I think maybe people who are
borrowing other's children with the express purpose of smuggling drugs in
their bottles have little care for the welfare of these children and might
just let them sip the drug laced bottles. Scary thought. The adult could
refuse to sample the bottle, the child could not.
I think, however, that this whole case was taking
"security" way too far. I feel for this mother and what she went through.
It is not for me to judge why she didn't "just" do things differently or
"just" feel differently. I have no idea of her situation or emotional or
physical state. She has been through an ordeal (not drinking the milk, but
the treatment from airport security) and she deserves a little compassion.
Doesn't she?
Mary Jozwiak IBCLC, LLLL, AAPL, mama to 3, including an almost 3 year old
nursling
Private Practice
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