InvestigateTV+: Helping families that travel with breast milk
Season 4, Episode 29
(InvestigateTV) — Mothers at TSA checkpoints say they’ve been forced to dump their breast milk or have it opened and tested. InvestigateTV+ explains how their stories created national change and what it could mean for your family’s next flight.
Plus, an empty seat on a boat inspires a fisherman to create a way to connect anglers who don’t want to cast alone, and a family turned a lifetime of caring for wounded wildlife into a powerful lesson about living to the fullest.
Ending confusion over traveling with breast milk
Emily Calandrelli, an author and former host of “Emily’s Wonder Lab” on Netflix, went viral in 2022 after writing on social media about an experience at a TSA security checkpoint.
Calandrelli said she was on a work trip at the time, writing it was her “first time away from my 10-week-old son, who I’m currently breastfeeding,” and that she “brought my pump and two ice packs.”
Calandrelli said two male TSA agents told her she could not bring the ice packs in a carry-on because they were not frozen solid. She said when she asked to speak to a supervisor, she was asked, “Well, where is the baby?” The supervisor then said if her child was with her, “it wouldn’t be an issue,” according to Calandrelli.
She said she was ultimately escorted from the security line and forced to check her ice packs.
Battling early-onset dementia with new tools
Andrea Lucas keeps a pill box in her home, surrounded by pictures and memorabilia celebrating her father, Bill Lucas, who was the first Black general manager for the Atlanta Braves.
The 61-year-old never needed medicine before and said she hates pills. But now, Lucas manages multiple medications after being diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, or early-onset dementia.
No fishing alone
“It was on this lake right here, Pomme de Terre Lake, I was fishing by myself,” John said. “That day I was feeling a little lonely. And I happened to look at my empty seat and got to thinking, man, why didn’t I bring somebody with me? And then the wheels started turning.”
That day, John bought the domain name coangler.com for $13. His idea was an app where people could connect and book fishing trips together.
Birds in his backyard
A licensed bird rehabilitator in Vermont has spent more than four decades healing injured birds, driven by a childhood memory that shaped his life’s work.
“I think our kids grew up thinking every kitchen has an owl,” Homer said.
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