Letters to the Editor
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Why not a propane camp stove?
Then I can use my lighter and my jug of breast milk to make hot cocoa.
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Worst of both worlds
Kevin C, I am sitting at my desk cracking up.
The TSA's liquid restrictions are ridiculous--they're restrictive enough to inconvenience passengers and broad enough to provide no real security. It's the worst of both worlds.
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Tastless, but hilarious
thanks for the laugh Kevin C
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re: hot cocoa
That goes nicely with an idea I had, which was bringing safety scissors, a hand juicer, a bag of plastic cups, and a 10-lb. bag of oranges onto a flight.
How much you want to bet people start buying white food coloring for bottles of wat--, I mean, breast milk?
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This is a Convenience Issue
Excuse me but ALL liquids can be checked with your baggage. You just can't carry on more than 3 oz. Did I miss something, or does breast milk go bad in the baggage compartment ?
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the real question is...
when can I resume bringing my own vodka onto the plane, cleverly disguised as "spring water"? The prices of those in-flight cocktails are way too high!
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re: smuggling vodka
How do you feel about White Russians?
Then you wouldn't even need the propane stove.
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Sucky working conditions and greed
WTF is it with women pumping breast milk on business trips? Its apalling on many levels that women are travelling for business while the kid (or kids, thanks Clomid) is/are still on breast milk. In European countries, women get decent maternity leave to take care of the little guys. Here, women get some small, token amount of time off. Also, why can't their employers work around this and let them work at the home office and not travel for a while?
But then, there are the careerists, who think they are balancing career and family, but are actually screwing the kids for a buck.
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Cberk you can bring your own vodka cleverly disguised as lotion.
It only takes 4-3oz bottles to equal one 12oz bottle of "pure spring water," and the 3oz size is just perfect for mixing with those tiny cups of soda they give you. But truly I don't think carrying on liquor is against the rules as long as it doesn't go over the 3oz container rule. How many oz are those little "airplane bottles."
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Breastmilk or Bust!
There are a couple issues here:
- The fact that liquids are being carried/checked in. Someone will eventually try to get something other than breastmilk onto a plane disguised as breastmilk. it's just gonna happen. Compomise on the part of all parties for the safety issues to be up held are paramount.
The amount has been set for a reason. Though most pump bottles smallest size is 4 ozs, not 3 ounces. Which makes this a good thing for moms on the fly. For some moms though they like the convenience of a larger bottle as they can pump up to 8 ozs a breast! and if they are traveling for biz...that can mean up to 4 pumping sessions equalling totalling 8 - 8 ounce bottles (yes folks some women actually can make that much milk pumping). Also they might not have the baggage for storage if it is only a day trip. That means carrying on the milk. This means for thinking on the mommies part. if they know they are going to be hauling back a substancial amount of milk...they need to prepare to have it taken to baggage. (But I wonder...what are the guidlines for liquids stored in checked baggage?) Then it all becomes a moot right?
to the poster that said the mom if she is nursing should be at home...LOL Your not having a good look at the whole are you.
Remember most women in the US only have 6-8 weeks mat leave! they need to go back to work.
-many families to just make ends meet, both partners have to work.
- Or the mom just might be the one who works and dad is at home becuase she makes better money.
- or the child is older and maternity leave is over (Women can produce breast milk for years and years beyond birth and after they have returned to work.)
- or she is a single parent and is not only working but ALSO continuing to provide her child with breastmilk for the child's health.
or, or, or....
the whole picture needs to be assessed before judgement be called.
remember you live in a country that has some of the world's lowest breastfeeding rates beyound 6 weeks..these women should be applauded not scorned.
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A snarky addition to PatriciaB’s thoughtful comments
Herself writes, “But then, there are the careerists, who think they are balancing career and family, but are actually screwing the kids for a buck.”
Actually, they might just be screwing the kids for personal fulfillment, not just for a buck.
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Thinking about the kids!
Herself writes, “But then, there are the careerists, who think they are balancing career and family, but are actually screwing the kids for a buck.”
Or so that when their kids are old enough, they can afford solid foods.
Or for their kids healthcare.
Or so their kids can live in a decent house, in a nice neighborhood and go to good school.
Or so they can send their kids to college
Or so they can save for retirement and not burden their kids with caring for them when they are old.
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Actually
Other than that last bit about "careerists" , I got the impression that Herself's post was about how much it sucks that women in the US don't get the maternity leave that they do in Europe. I'd have to agree with her on that point--6-8 weeks (or 4 weeks, as it was in my case) just isn't long enough for lots of reasons. I like my job just fine, but if I could've afforded to take a year off to spend it with my little guy, I would've done it in a heartbeat. I think what she was referring to was the fact that in Europe actually get a decent length of PAID maternity leave so you can actually afford to take some time off. I think it's understood that in the US most women can't stay at home because because of money issues.
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Re: Sucky working conditions and greed
Grungie, I’d chalk Herself’s “careerist” comment up to an unfortunate afterthought were it not for the title she gave her comment: “Sucky working conditions and greed.”
But, yes, I otherwise agree with the comments about shoddy maternity leave in the U.S.