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Have G-tube, will travel

Not sure if there is a book called Traveling With A Baby For Dummies, but I felt like I needed it. As someone who is a planner, I of course had to research how to take a baby with a G-tube and multiple medications on the plane to Vegas. The best summaries of what to bring were on the Feeding Tube Association's site , and on the blog Feeding Ray a. The logistics of how to get Evie through the TSA process and how to feed her on the plane, in a hotel, and in a hot environment were not situations in which I wanted to "wing it."   Here goes. GETTING THROUGH SECURITY All our medications were put in a small cooler the size of a thick phone book. The ice packs were frozen solid, because I had read that if your ice packs are slightly liquified in any way, the TSA will confiscate them.  Sure enough, I heard TSA agents both times mumble "frozen" to themselves as they confirmed that the ice packs were nice and frozen. Printed this card: TSA Card This card ale...