Posted on 05/12/2022 7:59:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
When my son Joseph was born last August, he was underweight. The doctors recommended I breastfeed and supplement with formula. I was devastated.
He is the first child for me and my husband, and when I was pregnant, I had dreams of exclusively breastfeeding. But like many other families, it wasn’t a possibility.
After I got over my formula hesitancy, I took comfort that Joey was doing well and gaining weight and had a renewed my hope for a bright future for our new family. But it was quickly replaced with a new concern. In January, I noticed growing holes on formula store shelves.
Having worked in retail throughout the pandemic, I figured the supply chain issues that plagued the rest of the economy — everything from pet food to toilet paper — was finally and inevitably reaching the formula supply.
So I started buying extra, mindful of the hoarding mentality that worsened the initial grocery shortages and not wanting to indulge my lurking fears. Baby formula shortages send parents nationwide into a panic Video
Then the recall hit, and it was hard to put aside my fear. Abbott (the maker of Similac formula, among others) recalled its powdered formula and closed a manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan. The shut-down suddenly escalated what was initially a reason for caution explode into near panic.
I had returned to work in November and couldn’t nurse so Joey is formula fed exclusively. He is months away from transitioning to cow’s milk and with each grocery run the shelves grow more barren.
Unfortunately, I’m not alone.
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It must be some consolation to know the babies of illegals are receiving all the free formula they can drink at the border.
Isn’t the global economy wonderful? Babies can’t get baby formula. Maybe mothers will need to start nursing again? Imagine that!
All Trump has to say, remember the economy in 2019 and before the china virus.
You’ve got boobs!
How did babies eat prior to store bought baby formula? And to make it worse there were no throw away diapers. Sorry folks. I have a hard time with this one.
Article doesnt say who she voted for so I’ll skip caring.
It reads like Lifetime is reporting the story.
#metoo
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Gotta teach that little one to start sucking on that teat.
Good experience for later in life to get the gov’t bennies.
What did women do before formula was invented?
Modern women probably don't like the babies biting their teets.
Still, there was never a shortage of baby formula or anything else in the Trump economy.
Some women can’t produce milk or produce too little. In the old days they had “wet nurses”, women who would feed other women’s babies. Today they use formula.
But this shortage is intentional, the Abbot plant was not the source of bacterial contamination. Nevertheless the FDA has it closed.
There is no way to chalk up our supply chain, fertilizer, petroleum, inflation, natural gas, diesel and baby food problems to simple coincidence.
The government obviously wants this to happen, that’s why they needed a President who would have no idea what is going on.
It also reads very similar to a story posted yesterday except that one had 5 kids with the last kid an 8 month old.
Some one needs to run these stories through an app that detects plagiarism.
Good point.
I’m going to make a meme on that.
Answer: they buried 30 to 50% of their children. Many Mothers cannot get the babies to either latch on or produce enough milk. Unfortunately we are not going to return to the time of a milk maidens.
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