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 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html