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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's no limit to the amount of breastmilk you can take with you on the plane. I have a Polar Bear cooler (which looks like a very bulky laptop bag) but that will keep cold milk cold for 12 hours. I put one ice pack there and I'm good. Just make sure your hotel has a mini-fridge. I used the pump in style advanced with a batery pack, but i plugged in whenever I could. I also used a lansinoh momma pump, just in case I had to pump in a bathroom cubicle....yes i know, you're 
not supposed to do that, but that's how i survived doing site visits and conferences. [/quote]

A lot of countries don't have a medical exemption for breastmilk.  And minifridges aren't cold enough for milk.[/quote]

Im the PP you quoted. Which countries are these? I haven't had any problems yet (cross fingers) -- I've traveled to Western Europe, Scandinavia, Asia and haven't had trouble...
Again this is from just MY experience, but I have stored breastmilk for 3 days at the minifridge and bring them home with an ice pack and this is what is given immediately to the baby the next day in daycare. No problems.[/quote]

Japan, Germany, and Korea.  I've successfully brought breastmilk back as checked luggage from each because they wouldn't allow a cooler of chilled fresh milk as hand luggage.  If you have enough time and have the checked baggage allowance, it's always worth a try to hand carry and go back to the ticket counter if denied, but I never changed it after those three countries.  Japan is a particular problem because if you connect through Tokyo international to international, you have to go through security and they take all your liquids away.  Thankfully I didn't learn that with breastmilk.

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NP here. I travel to Japan and Korea regularly (as well as other Asian countries), and have never had a problem with my breastmilk. When you transit through Narita and they do the ridiculous transit liquid check, you can try telling them it's for a baby and it's breastmilk. I tend to be really pushy and willing to escalate to a supervisor (and I can speak Japanese) so I haven't had a problem.

That said, for longer trips to Asia (anything more than 3 days), I'd bring baby and nanny along. For shorter trips, there's always the option of packing the milk in dry ice in your checked baggage.

I'm guessing since OP only travels a few days a month, though, she's not going to Singapore or something. In all likelihood, she's doing domestic travel and the TSA rules (rather than random countries' rules) will apply.[/quote]

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