Sad: Heathrow Airport Security Humiliates Breast Feeding Mother
A mum has penned a heartfelt open letter to Heathrow Airport security staff after she claims they forced her to dump four gallons of frozen breast milk.
Jessica Coakley Martinez frequently travels for work but pumps and freezes her breast milk for her son as she jets off around the world.
The mother-of-two from California claims she has been able to haul the frozen milk through airports around the world - but the only time it has been an issue was at London's Heathrow.
In her open letter, posted on Facebook, she wrote: "You humiliated me and made me feel completely defeated as a professional and a mother."
She describes the embarrassment and inconvenience of storing the milk for the sake of her son as she flies across the globe.
"It meant going to each hotel and convincing them to store my giant insulated bags of milk in their restaurant freezers to preserve it," she wrote.
"You made me dump nearly 500oz of breast milk in the trash.
"You made me dump out nearly two weeks worth of food for my son."
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