Going out of town for 3 days-need advice

vegetarian_chica

I BF, so obviously I'll have to pump and bring the milk home.  How do I do this exactly?  I'm thinking get those Medela bags that you can attach to your pump and store that milk in a cooler?  Will Southwest let me bring the cooler as a carry-on?  I'm thinking I'll have 48 bags of milk.  I don't want that to go to waste!!

 

 

bulldogmama23

If you go to the TSA website it will tell you what you can and cannot take on the plane.  You can even send them an email.  I had to do this when we went to Hawaii and I was still on my progresterone shots and suppositories from my IVF.  They would not allow me to carry on the suppositories which needed to be refrigerated unless I had a need to use it during the flight.  So I had to pack everything in a clear ziplock bag with gel packs to keep cool during the flight.

azuremama

I put milk in storage bags and put that in a small cooler to travel.  I used the lansinoh bags, but any type should be fine.  You can carry them the milk on.  You should probably tell security when you go through, but I never had any issues at all.  I brought a couple of extra ziploc bags and bought a cup of ice from a restaurant past security and used that to keep it cool on the way home because my gel packs usually weren't super cold by then.