Interesting timing. My new 6 week old grandson who was born a preemie is having a hard go of it. Was losing weight with breastmilk, his pediatrician who I have been friends with since elementary school has tried him on formula, soy formula, and he wants him on a specialty formula now made by Similac called Alimentum.
We found some pre-mixed bottles of it at our local Meijers which would have got her by for a few days, but we have been all over trying to find it in powder form. My daughter and her husband went to 8 different stores yesterday looking for it, they all had spots for it but they were all empty. Wife and I walked into our local CVS and found 7 cans of it there out of sheer luck. At $36.79 a can believe me, my daughter would GLADLY have stuck with breastmilk if she could have.
This story above is unfortunately very true for many parents right now, especially out in the rural areas where you don’t have a lot of options for sources. We of course tried on line first, but even Amazon is completely out of this stuff right now. Not all women do well with producing breastmilk either, I was glad my daughter, who is a NICU nurse as well and knows all the benefits, really wanted to do it but it just didn’t work out best for the baby.
One would have thought 6-9 months ago Brandon would have a supply chain committee to study, predict and prevent. No leadership. Nobody denies the issue, but to blame it on everything but Biden is unacceptable. Anyone who can fog a mirror would have a plan in place to ameliorate these necessity item shortages.