Posted on 06/11/2022 4:38:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The original formula recall announced by the FDA in February did not include the brand we used for our daughter, which made me assume that we would not be affected. As a first-time mom already concerned about keeping her baby safe during the pandemic, I didn’t need another thing to worry about. I thought that the government would step in before families had to go out of their way to find food. We noticed the large empty spaces on shelves at every store but remained optimistic that help would arrive soon. Yet the shelves only grew emptier.
My mother-in-law agreed to look for formula while driving from Nebraska to visit us. We relaxed a bit: surely some formula could be found on a 1,200-mile road trip. But we were wrong. There was none. Someone at our church offered us several boxes of expired formula from Germany. I read from many health experts online that the nutrients in formula start to degrade over time and bacteria can develop in formula past its due date – but we didn’t have any other options. Maybe I am just a first-time mom who needs to stop Googling everything, but I was desperate for someone to assure me that I was making the right choices and taking appropriate risks to keep my daughter alive.
Luckily, our daughter was able to tolerate the milk. But even with half the formula, we still struggle to find what we need. I recently had a friend in Boston mail me three boxes that she found 30 minutes outside the city. The support of my community is the only thing that keeps me believing in my daughter’s future. I recognize that it is a luxury to even have a support system to help us get by.
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The government closes up production on ONE manufacturing company and the formula disappears all over the country. I don’t understand. Please help me understand!!!!
They did. They went out of their way to cause it.
NOT TO WORRY!!! Joe Biden is looking in to it.
The Great Famine: You will own no food or baby formula, and you will pretend to be happy.
From the article:
“As my anxiety over meeting my daughter’s basic needs grew, I felt guilty about choosing formula to begin with; I never tried to breastfeed because of my psychiatric medications...”
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Be patient! Biden will have it fixed it in hea third term.
He stuck his foot into it, that’s how.
I’ll just go ahead and riff off your remarks: one of the ways in which we could best get through this crisis is to simply disobey unconstitutional federal laws and regulations en masse. Since most federal law is unconstitutional, and there are only so many FBI/KGB agents out there, the country will wind up being a lot more free and prosperous.
But it takes en masse disobedience. Just a few individuals and companies disobeying these laws will mean a few individuals in jail and a few companies disbanded and bankrupt.
A number of commercially prepared formulas were patented. Liebig's food for infants, marketed in 1867 as a liquid and subsequently as a powder, consisted of wheat flour, cow's milk, malt flour and potassium bicarbonate (Forsyth 1910–1911, Smith 1885). Other formulas were introduced in rapid succession; by 1883, 27 brands of patented infant foods were available (Bracken 1953). However, relatively few infants were fed commercially prepared formulas.I think it might be possible that Grand Mothers and Great Grandmothers and retired Nurses should be consulted for expedient workarounds of Depression Days.
Ya know...I wonder if all the “allergies” our kids are developing like peanuts and gluten intolerance has to do with all the baby formula they are fed the first couple years of the life? We never got formula when we were born and our generation didn’t have the problems kids do today.
Your tits broke? If yes, melt some vanilla ice cream.
In 1968 our son’s military pediatrician put him on whole cow’s milk at 3 months old.
He was a robust little guy and he did just fine. We did have to give him prune juice to keep him regular.
But, this current situation is an outrage for those with sensitive and allergic babies.
What happened to breast feeding? How did infants make it to childhood in 1776 without baby formula? I don’t get it. I thought you could breast feed kids right up until they star with solid baby food.
What gives? Is it just not cool to breastfeed anymore or did some nutcase quack say it causes breast cancer or what? I am pretty sure I didn’t receive a gulp of baby formula when I was an infant back in the 1950s. I am pretty sure it was breastfeeding straight until strained carrots and applesauce.
That's an easy answer. They had these women called wet nurses who never let their breast milk dry up and made themselves available to nurse babies when the mother could not or would not.
“Some women can’t breast feed”
For way over 90% that was an elective choice because it better supports their career and lifestyle. Choices matter.
Formula was invented in the 50s because it was the 50s. They also gave us frozen TV dinners, Minute Rice, Cheeze Whiz and McDonalds. It wasn’t because they wanted to help us have better nutrition.
They realized those mommy boobs and calculated how much cash they could make if only those could be taken outta the mix.
I’m a mid-50’s baby and my mom told me that in those days, they considered breastmilk inferior. When she had me, the dr asked her, *You’re not going to breast feed, are you?*
She said she wanted to but gave in and did formula. They gave her those hormone pills to dry her up and she told me they didn’t work.
FWIW, she died from very aggressive breast cancer in her mid-60’s. I suspect that getting those hormone treatments five times contributed to it.
Also, breastfeeding is very protective against breast cancer.
All this hand-wringing. Like the RINO’s.
Sooner than later, true Patriots are going to do whatever it takes to take back our country. Don’t know when or where but I think it will happen. Also don’t know if we’ll succeed but I’ll agree with Patrick Henry: “Give me liberty of give me death.”
Freedom, so hardly won and so easily lost, is worth fighting and dying for.
Goat’s Milk.
Unless you can’t breastfeed. I’m one of the ones who couldn’t. My son almost starved because nothing was coming out.
I did not know anything when my son was born. I got sent home in less than 24 hours. I had a horrible headache from the epidural and a fever. Everyone kept on telling me to keep breastfeeding and I kept wondering how do you even know it’s working.
My son was screaming all the time and I was miserable.
Finally, at his 1 week check up the pediatrician was horrified and told us to put him in formula. My son was literally starving.
I had twins next, and we immediately put them on formula. Also, there was a new law to keep mother’s in the hospital for 2 days.
The line I got from the “La Leche League”, aka the “Lechistas” (we were a “lechista” family), is that in the US the proportion of women who truly, physically cant nurse is tiny, vs the proportion that dont bother to try.
And this makes sense, as the whole inability to nurse trait would have been powerfully selected against back in the Paleolothic/Neolithic, the last time nature alone had a chance to shape humanity. A woman whose children dont live because she cant nurse isn’t going to have many offspring to carry her traits into the future.
La Leche is a left wing outfit, but I completely agree with their point and program. And our kids are beneficiaries of their efforts. They certainly are highly myelinated!
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