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post #1 of 15
6/5/08 at 10:08pm
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oh this made me so mad - i exclusively pumped for almost 3mths (including nicu time) before my son would latch and would have been devastated. have sent off a complaint to catsa...am including the link for that too.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...Story/National

"Nina Brewer-Davis stood in tears at Vancouver International Airport's security checkpoint Tuesday morning as she watched a guard throw 1½ litres of her breast milk in the garbage"

CATSA - http://www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca/english.../contact.shtml

i work at an airport part time and will be there this weekend and i plan on talking about this with some catsa agents!
post #2 of 15
6/5/08 at 10:48pm
I've heard of this happening before.
post #3 of 15
6/5/08 at 10:49pm
That's infuriating.
post #4 of 15
6/5/08 at 10:52pm
post #5 of 15
6/5/08 at 10:56pm
"Baby food, formula, milk, water and juice are exempt from the restrictions if the passenger is travelling with a baby two years old or younger."

So when my DD is 3 and I bring her on a plane, I won't be able to feed her? (see siggy)

That's f'ed up. I'm not planning on traveling by plane anytime soon, but if I were this would make me change my plans. If someone threw out my milk and I had to supplement with formula, I'd be demanding someone pay her inevitable medical bill...she has poor gastric motility and formula would likely result in a trip to the doc, if not to the ER.
post #6 of 15
6/6/08 at 12:21am
The USA at least switched it to even w/o a baby... sounds like we need to get Canada to agree!! That is just infuriating!
post #7 of 15
6/6/08 at 2:08am
oh no. that made me want to cry. i almost started tearing up and i don't really cry about the news that much. what the eff?
post #8 of 15
6/6/08 at 9:21am
This is infuriating. That poor mama. I hope Canada changes their rules soon
post #9 of 15
6/6/08 at 10:05am
That's awful.
post #10 of 15
6/6/08 at 12:32pm
how horrible
post #11 of 15
6/6/08 at 12:58pm
Man I wish I was there. I'd have helped her get it all into smaller "allowable" conatiners and I would have carried the extra through on my allowance for her. How very sad and down right RONG. Shame on CATSA!!! I have had words with them before about all this (even though I'm not a pumping mama) and I always leave shaking my head.

LP
post #12 of 15
6/6/08 at 1:21pm
that poor mama
post #13 of 15
6/6/08 at 4:06pm
Wow, I can't think of anything else to say I am TOO shocked. Wow!
post #14 of 15
6/7/08 at 9:24am
I just saw this and I am horrified and so sad for that mom. I found more details - her baby is 7 months old. If she is using her pumped supply often (as in, not just this one time to maintain supply), this incident could potentially compromise her baby's bm diet.
post #15 of 15
6/7/08 at 3:56pm
I think I would have been arrested right then and there because I would have gone totally apeshit. I pumped for dd when she was young (starting at 3 mo) and it was hard to make sure she had enough milk while I was at work. If someone were to throw my milk away, I would absolutely lose it.
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