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PSA - new airport security rule
Just thought I'd post here about this in case anyone is flying with their LOs around the holidays!
We took a flight on Monday of last week and followed the advice of bumpies and "wore" LO through security in a baby bjorn.
On Friday for our return flight, the security informed me that there was a new rule and if you wear a baby bjorn in security now both you and your LO will have to get a pat down. You can avoid this by just carrying baby in your arms.
Yes, this rule happened sometime between my Monday and Friday flights. It definitely threw me for a loop since Gage was also screaming his head off for his bottle, which was being tested for explosives, as we were trying to get through - but that's another story!
Just a heads up!
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Re: PSA - new airport security rule
Yes, they'll put your carseat and stroller through the conveyer belt xray. You'll have to separate your bottles and they'll test those for explosives by waving a test strip of paper over them that detect the fumes.
We took a boppy on the plan which was a great suggestion as we were both much more comfortable! On the return flight we talked to the agent at the gate and they got us in a row with an empty seat and we took our car seat on instead of checking it at the gate (when I booked the flight I picked seats in the back in hopes nobody would take the middle seat). They will check the label on the seat though to make sure it's FSA approved. I buckled it in and Gage hung out in it most of the flight and we were MUCH more comfortable!
I feel like a pro now so let me know if you have any other questions
I had a sleeping, happy baby in his carseat/stroller and they made me take him out and wake him up. What happens when a baby wakes up? They want a bottle. Ugh- it was awful. Of course, he wasn't walking yet so I had to try to undo the stroller from the carseat with 1 hand. I ended up putting him on the floor on a blanket- no one would help me. The stroller didn't fit on the conveyer belt either- they told me it would and I knew it wouldn't. I held up the line for what felt like an hour.
Bringing the carseat is worth it if you are able to get an empty seat on the flight. It just gives you a break. Next time though, I am bringing both the bjorn and the stroller. No one ever checked my carseat though to see if it was FSA approved. They didn't seem to care at all about it. Of course, the lady in front of me hated me because she couldn't put her seat back!
I'm seriously not looking to traveling at Christmas though. It's always the worst time of year- people should be happy but they're so grumpy!
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I will say the security at DFW airport was amazing. They saw us coming and sent over someone to help us get through before we even got up to the xrays. I just had to take baby out of the stroller and point at the handle on the stroller that collapses it and they did it all for me. We got through some easily due to the the great employees.
In Dayton, OH it wasn't as nice. I was sitting at the checkin counter with my baby in a stroller and three bags to check and they informed me I had to take my bags down the hall to have them xrayed. I just said no - I am carrying a baby how do you expect me to carry three bags down the hall? It's not my fault your shoddy airport doesn't have a conveyer belt like every other airport in america. Hmph. So someone hopped over the counter and took them for me. Then it was their security that informed me about the baby bjorn being banned. If I didn't have my mom there to hand the baby to I really don't know how I would have gotten the carseat and stroller on the conveyer belt! Like the PP - I guess put them on the floor if nobody would hold him (and you may not want a stranger holding your baby anyways!) Wow - what a nightmare!
This is good to know! I was planning on putting the baby bjorn on the xray belt and carrying DD through the detector. Did you take RTU bottles or powder (if you feed formula and not pumped BM). I'm thinking of just getting some RTU bottles for airport madness only and maybe just getting some drop ins to use for bottles? I haven't quite gotten that figured out yet.
DD and I are flying out on December 8 and well be tackling security by ourselves. Luckily Dayton airport is less chaotic than Hartsfield-Jackson in ATL.
CRAP! Don't say that!! I live about 45 min from Dayton airport so that's basically all I fly out of! This doesn't make me less panicky! LOL I hope it's better to deal with at ATL, that place is a nightmare trying to get through by yourself. Oy vey....I need some anxiety meds.
Awesome, I fly out on Wednesday from DFW. We're on the international terminal, (cancun) so I hope my experience is as good as yours. But being that it;s the international terminal, I am expecting to be scanned to oblivion or grouped up, while I hold my baby.
I heard that they prefer you to hold baby instead of in the baby carrier for take off and landing. But I think it's much safer to have the child physically attached to me (who is seat belted in) than simply holding her in my arm. If they tell me to remove her from the carrier, I plan to say that I am going to breastfeed in the carrier and "are you telling me I can't breast feed my baby" I doubt they will be willing to argue with that. Grr Don;t make me take down your name and number and make a phone call.
When I flew with my son back in October, the I took RTU, unopened mind you, so I did not have to hassle with BF on the flight or in the terminal or worry about having pumped milk with me. Well, the TSA informed me that the UNOPENED RTU was the reason I had to be subject to the new pat downs. This was before it all came out in the media about the new pat downs, so imagine how confused I was! I carried DS through the airport, and luckily the lady let me hold DS while she felt me up.