Posted on 05/11/2022 6:58:19 AM PDT by BusterDog
SEATTLE - While many parents are feeling anxious as the nationwide baby formula shortage continues, some mothers are stepping up to donate their breast milk.
"With my first, I struggled with not having a proper supply," said Isabelle Praget, a West Seattle mom.
Knowing the stresses that new moms experience, Praget decided to help ease what they're going through now with the nationwide shortage. When FOX 13 talked to her Monday, Praget had already made at least three trips to drop off donated breast milk at Nurturing Expressions in West Seattle.
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I could not breastfeed. I tried, and my son was starving. My very pro breastfeeding pediatrician told us to immediately formula feed him. He had lost a pound his first week. He was crying constantly. My boobs were blocked up and hard and sore. I had a fever.
Back then, you only stayed one night in the hospital. My first labor was long and hard. I also lost a lot of blood. I then had a headache from the epidural. I think an extra day or 2 in the hospital or being sent healthcare at our home would have been helpful. I think a lactation consult would have been good too. My mom was not with us, and she did not breastfeed.
Then I had twins, and I didn’t even try with them because of my son. Having them was so easy. They were smaller and labor was just easy comparatively. Then they made sure I didn’t have the epidural headache. I think they also did something with my boobs.
I feel sorry for new parents struggling to find formula.
I have no idea, some of this artificial but a lot of it is real.
I have may suspicions call me a conspiracy nut, I think it has to do with the diets people have grown up with over the years.
Artificial store bought food versus natural farm raised farm raised food, throw in a fast food diet
You combine unhealthy diets and I think the number and types of vaccines and drugs people take today effects the body and it gets passed down over time resulting in children being born with allergies and other intolerances that didn’t exist years ago.
I could be totally wrong.
Exactly. It takes time and effort, but it will be necessary, and can be done. Thry might even have to bring back wet nurses for awhile too, but there would have to some protection for the donor,agaisnt lawsuits somehow.
My kids had to have the special formula. The milk based or soy based formulas caused terrible diarrhea and gas.
Then my twins almost died of RSV.
I think they inherited their problems from me. I have terrible allergies, and I have asthma.
Here we go with the lawsuits for “men” (women who,think they are men and had masectomies) claiming discrimination because they can’t contribute anymore
“I could be totally wrong.”
And again, you could be totally correct. Who knows?
Now that he’s through with nursing his kid, have woketard mothers asked Pete Buttgig to contribute some breast milk?
I am 94 years old.
I have had lactose intolerance all of my life.
My mother did not recognize it as lactose intolerance nor did I until I was of college age.
It is no joke. It can be very painful. A glass of milk or a ice cream cone can totally ruin my digestive system for 24 hours.
Just because you just found out does not mean that it is a new thing. All it means is that you just found out.
I know what you mean...
Between K-12 I knew 5 kids with an allergy/disease.
I don’t know how it happened that all these kids cannot function in the real world, same as autism/all the spectrums.
Milk with some Caro syrup…my goodness, it ain’t rocket science.
94 years old. You never had special formulas made by big pharma. There’s options and far less are lactose intolerant. 2 or our 3 kids had reactions to formula so we fed them a soupy mix of baby cereal and some milk like almond and so forth. There’s plenty of options..it’s amazing that people are crying out for government to do more when literally are creating the problems we see today.
Maybe if the FDA wouldn’t shut down the largest formula maker for 3+ months for 4 total cases of infections that were never traced to the plant. No contaminated formula was ever found.
‘Lactation Consultant’ isn’t a new term. Lactation consultants were staffed in hospital maternity wards where I gave birth, as far back as the 1990’s.
Up to my grandmothers’ generation, most women breastfed their babies, so they could share advice with each other. But, my mother’s generation was pushed to use formula. So, when my generation was pushed to breastfeed exclusively, we needed advice.
Enter the lactation consultant... SOMEONE at the hospital had to tell us how to maximize output. At home, we could call a hotline staffed with lactation consultants if we were having difficulty. (I realize that sounds hilarious to men - lol - but nursing is not as easy as it sounds.)
Now, the stats show that more Millennial women have chosen to formula-feed their babies. So, this shortage is a disaster.
I pretty much hate dairy, although I do like ice cream and some cheeses. (Maybe I do have lactose intolerance to a degree. If I have ice cream there had better be a bathroom two minutes away. Yuk.)
If Hubby eats yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, etc., I have to move to the other side of the room because the smell makes me gag.
“Between K-12 I knew 5 kids with an allergy/disease.”
I knew exactly one kid with allergies growing up. Now it seems they’re all delicate doilies, either health-wise or emotionally.
Sadly, some have true medical conditions that are debilitating — often genetic — especially if both parents are unknowingly carriers for unique problems.
“I don’t understand why these bizarre allergies and intolerances are happening now.”
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Vaccines.
Or the jabbed.🤔
I know many people who blame vaccines, and especially the extreme vaccine cocktails, for this. Also for autism, ADD, etc. I might have to agree with them.
Some theories are that more hygiene has made immune systems weaker.
Another theory is low Vitamin D.
“I know many people who blame vaccines, and especially the extreme vaccine cocktails, for this. Also for autism, ADD, etc. I might have to agree with them.”
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s. organization Children’s Health Defense:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/?s=allergies
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