Posted on 05/07/2022 4:53:40 PM PDT by Morgana
The supply chain kinks are taking a toll on parents and their infant children as shortages of baby formula continue and, in fact, the product is one of the most directly impacted on the market.
“Since early April, baby formula out of stock rates have soared to 40 percent across the country, according to our analysis,” Ben Reich, CEO of Datasembly, a provider of real-time product pricing, promotions, and assortment data for retailers of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands, told Breitbart News. “Baby formula demonstrated inflationary spikes in July of 2021, and the situation has continued to worsen the first few months of 2022. Inflation, supply chain shortages and product recalls have continued to bring volatility to the category, and continues to be one of the most affected products in the market.”
Breitbart News also reached out to some of the CPG retailers and received a response from Matt Blanchette, senior manager for retail communications for CVS Pharmacy.
“Following supplier challenges and increased customer demand, we currently have a limit of three baby formula products per purchase in our stores and online,” Blanchette told Breitbart News. “We’re continuing to work with our baby formula vendors to address this issue and we regret any inconvenience this causes our customers.”
Datasembly also found that in July 2021, the [Out of Stock Percentage] OOS% moved into the double digits and then started to increase significantly towards the end of November 2021 ,where it went from 11 percent nationwide to 31 precent by the week starting April 3, 2022.
For the week starting April 24, there were six states that had baby formula OOS percentages higher than 50 percent:
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Pelosi still gets the good stuff made from real babies
The Party of Moloch.
Could you post that here?
Could be big blessing in disguise for some. Mothers milk is far superior, has critical things in it that are very important and the lack there of can have long term health and development impacts.
I looked it up and found this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJcpGgEAsiM
You may not want to go that route
It is but some babies can’t drink it, are allergic. Those will die if they don’t get formula.
That is what tits are for?
Who knew?
What percentage of newborns are allergic and will die from being breastfed by their mommys?
My Mom put while milk in a bottle. They don’t do that anymore? Breast feeding?
Ya know, some moms struggle and can’t nurses their infants.
I was nursing my baby when I got pregnant with her brother. I continued to nurse her, but eventually my supply dried up due to the pregnancy hormones. So comments like yours aren’t necessarily helpful and come across as quite judgmental.
So your “blessing in disguise” is not what you think it is. If a baby is dependent on formula, for whatever reason, what do you expect a woman to do?
Also, I know a man whose wife had post partum psychosis & killed herself when their baby was 6 weeks old. Clearly, that child did not have access to breastmilk. I’m curious what you’d tell a person in that situation to do?
About 5% cannot nurse . Sadly, my twin granddaughters are in that number. They depend on a certain brand of formula.
Some women can’t produce enough milk for a growing baby. Our mother had to use formula for each one of us.
Parents used to use evaporated milk in some form. Surely there is something they can substitute. Baby formula is a rather recent invention.
The qualifier was “for some”. As it was said in the Good Book “all men(women) cannot receive this saying..”.
#16
Gee, if only God, or nature, provided some way for mothers to feed their babies naturally, like all the other mammals do.
What a great idea that would be. So convenient and inexpensive. Always ready to go at a moment’s notice and just the right temperature.
The Weston Price Foundation has recipes for homemade formula: https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/childrens-health/formula-homemade-baby-formula/
Breastfeeding is the proper choice.
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