Distressed dad says 'never did I think I would have a problem finding food for my baby in America'

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reporters need to ask KJP about this crisis at the press briefing.
Perhaps she will have an answer in her book.

And, in case anyone thinks this is old footage.... July 20. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-formula-shortage-fda/

Honestly asking - how is that possible? This has been going on for half a year. There have been dozens of shipments from Europe. Did US manufacturing plants completely shut down?

Someone needs to ask this administration and see how they spin it.

Breast feed your Baby- who needs formula

Oh wait... the GOP is against paid maternity leave -guess all the women FORCED to give BIRTH will continue to have to go back to work at 6 weeks for their minimum wage jobs of $7/hr

I know women who WFH who refuse to breastfeed. You need formula -it’s literally essential for life. Basic necessity pp.

Actually, babies don't "need " artificial cow's milk based formula made in China or contaminated US factories as something " essential to their lives"

Human infants NEED Human milk, made naturally in the mother's body which not only provides ALL nutritional requirements, human breast milk is the ONLY source of transfer of the mother's immune globulins to her newborn to protect babies from various infectious illnesses.

Breast Milk is FREE and sanitary

So ironic that Republicans want to compel women to give birth, but refuse to support those very same women in breast feeding their babies -fully paid 1 year maternity leave

Instead, GOP wants to force more poor women to have babies and - at same time- start a trade war with CHINA- the main source of imported of cow's milk artificial baby formula, fail to inspect US based cow's milk artificial formula factories and allow trade monopolies to weaken the supply chain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have seen formula at just about every grocery store I have been to the last 6 weeks.

I cannot believe people are still complaining about this.

I am way beyond the baby feeding stage, so this isn't something I routinely check when I go to the grocery store. I was at the local CVS last night, however, and I noticed the baby formula was behind the cashier and very little stock.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reporters need to ask KJP about this crisis at the press briefing.
Perhaps she will have an answer in her book.

And, in case anyone thinks this is old footage.... July 20. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-formula-shortage-fda/

Honestly asking - how is that possible? This has been going on for half a year. There have been dozens of shipments from Europe. Did US manufacturing plants completely shut down?

Someone needs to ask this administration and see how they spin it.

Breast feed your Baby- who needs formula

Oh wait... the GOP is against paid maternity leave -guess all the women FORCED to give BIRTH will continue to have to go back to work at 6 weeks for their minimum wage jobs of $7/hr

I know women who WFH who refuse to breastfeed. You need formula -it’s literally essential for life. Basic necessity pp.

Actually, babies don't "need " artificial cow's milk based formula made in China or contaminated US factories as something " essential to their lives"

Human infants NEED Human milk, made naturally in the mother's body which not only provides ALL nutritional requirements, human breast milk is the ONLY source of transfer of the mother's immune globulins to her newborn to protect babies from various infectious illnesses.

Breast Milk is FREE and sanitary

So ironic that Republicans want to compel women to give birth, but refuse to support those very same women in breast feeding their babies -fully paid 1 year maternity leave

Instead, GOP wants to force more poor women to have babies and - at same time- start a trade war with CHINA- the main source of imported of cow's milk artificial baby formula, fail to inspect US based cow's milk artificial formula factories and allow trade monopolies to weaken the supply chain

You don't seem to understand that there are many women who CANNOT breast feed for a variety of reasons and infants who CANNOT tolerate breast milk for a variety of reasons.
Geez... get a grip, woman.

[Anonymous]

Actually, I am aware of the rare cases where its contra-indicated to breast feed:

* a woman with an infectious disease that is transmitted via bloodstream ( HIV, Hepatitis)
* Rh incompatability
* retro-grade nipples
* breast implants where the surgeon permanently damaged the " let down" nerve sensor reflex
* babies requiring a ketogenic diet

ALL of which are- even combined- a small enough number for their to be enough artificial formula made in China or some US factory for them to buy

For everyone else, breast milk IS and always WILL BE the best nutrition for an Infant- medical fact

What you should be doing is not lobbying for better access to cheap, crap formula that might even be contaminated- but lobbying for public policies that support Infants & mothers like paid 12 month maternity leave so women can , you know , feed their children, bond with them, set them on a good course in life

Instead of propping a formula bottle and off to day care with the baby in 6 weeks

[Anonymous]

Just a reminder that the baby formula shortage is ongoing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just a reminder that the baby formula shortage is ongoing.

Highlighted there is that there is only one formula her daughter can tolerate. Not all formulas are having production issues. Her child Likely needs a hypo, RTF, or amino. This is actually part of the reason I pumped at work until year 1.5 and removed dairy from my diet as my son could not tolerate regular or hypo formulas. He would have required amino acid formulas and you have to trial those because not all babies will tolerate them nor ingest them (they taste awful).
At 4.5 he is just NOW tolerating milk products but it isnt an allergy and something like 90% of kids who have protein intolerances grow out of the by 2. I did not want to rely on formula for both cost and production issues. Cost was the primary issue because most insurance companies will only pay for X number of cans per month and only until 1 year. Anything manufactured has the potential to stop being produced.
I had to exclusively pump until 4 months and kept trying nursing until he latched at 4mos. Continued bfing until 2.5 but I never would have been able to pump exclusively past a year. I dont respond well to a pump AND it is so laborious. We really expect mothers to figure it all out whether its nursing or formula feeding.

I really wish the government would do a random trial of 50000 women across socioeconomic lines and provide 1 year of maternity leave, 6 months of paternity leave, and 3 years of paid preschool. Follow them for 30 years to compare outcomes. We invest the least amount in children 0-3 compared to other nations and wonder why we all have depression, anxiety, low performance, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a reminder that the baby formula shortage is ongoing.

Highlighted there is that there is only one formula her daughter can tolerate. Not all formulas are having production issues. Her child Likely needs a hypo, RTF, or amino. This is actually part of the reason I pumped at work until year 1.5 and removed dairy from my diet as my son could not tolerate regular or hypo formulas. He would have required amino acid formulas and you have to trial those because not all babies will tolerate them nor ingest them (they taste awful).
At 4.5 he is just NOW tolerating milk products but it isnt an allergy and something like 90% of kids who have protein intolerances grow out of the by 2. I did not want to rely on formula for both cost and production issues. Cost was the primary issue because most insurance companies will only pay for X number of cans per month and only until 1 year. Anything manufactured has the potential to stop being produced.
I had to exclusively pump until 4 months and kept trying nursing until he latched at 4mos. Continued bfing until 2.5 but I never would have been able to pump exclusively past a year. I dont respond well to a pump AND it is so laborious. We really expect mothers to figure it all out whether its nursing or formula feeding.

I really wish the government would do a random trial of 50000 women across socioeconomic lines and provide 1 year of maternity leave, 6 months of paternity leave, and 3 years of paid preschool. Follow them for 30 years to compare outcomes. We invest the least amount in children 0-3 compared to other nations and wonder why we all have depression, anxiety, low performance, etc.

+1000

I had no real problems BFing and BF three babies. I had on average 3 months of leave with each and a relatively supportive work environment. I STILL had my supply taper off after returning to work and had to supplement with formula for DC#2 and #3 because I wasn't as responsive to pumping and not able to adhere to a strict pumping schedule. I think of that all the time when people get into the BFing wars. I had it EASY compared to most moms and it was still really, really hard because of so many things stacked against success at BF. I'm so tired of everyone pitting moms against moms when the problem is a system that is actively unfriendly to parents/babies. If moms were actually supported, those who wanted to and could BF wouldn't need to use formula, making formula available to those babies who need it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a reminder that the baby formula shortage is ongoing.

Highlighted there is that there is only one formula her daughter can tolerate. Not all formulas are having production issues. Her child Likely needs a hypo, RTF, or amino. This is actually part of the reason I pumped at work until year 1.5 and removed dairy from my diet as my son could not tolerate regular or hypo formulas. He would have required amino acid formulas and you have to trial those because not all babies will tolerate them nor ingest them (they taste awful).
At 4.5 he is just NOW tolerating milk products but it isnt an allergy and something like 90% of kids who have protein intolerances grow out of the by 2. I did not want to rely on formula for both cost and production issues. Cost was the primary issue because most insurance companies will only pay for X number of cans per month and only until 1 year. Anything manufactured has the potential to stop being produced.
I had to exclusively pump until 4 months and kept trying nursing until he latched at 4mos. Continued bfing until 2.5 but I never would have been able to pump exclusively past a year. I dont respond well to a pump AND it is so laborious. We really expect mothers to figure it all out whether its nursing or formula feeding.

I really wish the government would do a random trial of 50000 women across socioeconomic lines and provide 1 year of maternity leave, 6 months of paternity leave, and 3 years of paid preschool. Follow them for 30 years to compare outcomes. We invest the least amount in children 0-3 compared to other nations and wonder why we all have depression, anxiety, low performance, etc.

+1000

I had no real problems BFing and BF three babies. I had on average 3 months of leave with each and a relatively supportive work environment. I STILL had my supply taper off after returning to work and had to supplement with formula for DC#2 and #3 because I wasn't as responsive to pumping and not able to adhere to a strict pumping schedule. I think of that all the time when people get into the BFing wars. I had it EASY compared to most moms and it was still really, really hard because of so many things stacked against success at BF. I'm so tired of everyone pitting moms against moms when the problem is a system that is actively unfriendly to parents/babies. If moms were actually supported, those who wanted to and could BF wouldn't need to use formula, making formula available to those babies who need it.

That’s great but it’s still a failure of big business that all the necessary formulas aren’t available. If they can’t manage themselves and only form monopolies that guarantee we’ll have problems later, perhaps they need some more regulations and/or to be broken up so there’s more competition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just a reminder that the baby formula shortage is ongoing.

Highlighted there is that there is only one formula her daughter can tolerate. Not all formulas are having production issues. Her child Likely needs a hypo, RTF, or amino. This is actually part of the reason I pumped at work until year 1.5 and removed dairy from my diet as my son could not tolerate regular or hypo formulas. He would have required amino acid formulas and you have to trial those because not all babies will tolerate them nor ingest them (they taste awful).
At 4.5 he is just NOW tolerating milk products but it isnt an allergy and something like 90% of kids who have protein intolerances grow out of the by 2. I did not want to rely on formula for both cost and production issues. Cost was the primary issue because most insurance companies will only pay for X number of cans per month and only until 1 year. Anything manufactured has the potential to stop being produced.
I had to exclusively pump until 4 months and kept trying nursing until he latched at 4mos. Continued bfing until 2.5 but I never would have been able to pump exclusively past a year. I dont respond well to a pump AND it is so laborious. We really expect mothers to figure it all out whether its nursing or formula feeding.

I really wish the government would do a random trial of 50000 women across socioeconomic lines and provide 1 year of maternity leave, 6 months of paternity leave, and 3 years of paid preschool. Follow them for 30 years to compare outcomes. We invest the least amount in children 0-3 compared to other nations and wonder why we all have depression, anxiety, low performance, etc.

+1000

I had no real problems BFing and BF three babies. I had on average 3 months of leave with each and a relatively supportive work environment. I STILL had my supply taper off after returning to work and had to supplement with formula for DC#2 and #3 because I wasn't as responsive to pumping and not able to adhere to a strict pumping schedule. I think of that all the time when people get into the BFing wars. I had it EASY compared to most moms and it was still really, really hard because of so many things stacked against success at BF. I'm so tired of everyone pitting moms against moms when the problem is a system that is actively unfriendly to parents/babies. If moms were actually supported, those who wanted to and could BF wouldn't need to use formula, making formula available to those babies who need it.

That’s great but it’s still a failure of big business that all the necessary formulas aren’t available. If they can’t manage themselves and only form monopolies that guarantee we’ll have problems later, perhaps they need some more regulations and/or to be broken up so there’s more competition.

Oh, I also agree that monopolies are inherently antithetical to resilience.

[Anonymous]

Its bad again. My 10 month old can only tolerate hypoallergenic forumla and its extremely difficult to obtain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reporters need to ask KJP about this crisis at the press briefing.
Perhaps she will have an answer in her book.

And, in case anyone thinks this is old footage.... July 20. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-formula-shortage-fda/

Honestly asking - how is that possible? This has been going on for half a year. There have been dozens of shipments from Europe. Did US manufacturing plants completely shut down?

Someone needs to ask this administration and see how they spin it.

Breast feed your Baby- who needs formula

Oh wait... the GOP is against paid maternity leave -guess all the women FORCED to give BIRTH will continue to have to go back to work at 6 weeks for their minimum wage jobs of $7/hr

I know women who WFH who refuse to breastfeed. You need formula -it’s literally essential for life. Basic necessity pp.

Actually, babies don't "need " artificial cow's milk based formula made in China or contaminated US factories as something " essential to their lives"

Human infants NEED Human milk, made naturally in the mother's body which not only provides ALL nutritional requirements, human breast milk is the ONLY source of transfer of the mother's immune globulins to her newborn to protect babies from various infectious illnesses.

Breast Milk is FREE and sanitary

So ironic that Republicans want to compel women to give birth, but refuse to support those very same women in breast feeding their babies -fully paid 1 year maternity leave

Instead, GOP wants to force more poor women to have babies and - at same time- start a trade war with CHINA- the main source of imported of cow's milk artificial baby formula, fail to inspect US based cow's milk artificial formula factories and allow trade monopolies to weaken the supply chain

No one needs, or should be given, a free ride year for a year so they can nurse. You already get FREE time from employers to pump and employers are forced to provide luxury nursing rooms for you. Oops, I forgot to mention other employees taking up your slack while you have your free pumping breaks.

Society is not responsible for your choice to procreate and don't give me your song and dance about your offspring paying for my social security.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its bad again. My 10 month old can only tolerate hypoallergenic forumla and its extremely difficult to obtain

My sister is struggling with this too- she does breastfeed/pump but had to cut all sorts of things out of her diet and can’t produce enough so supplements with hypoallergenic formula and it s been stressful to find.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reporters need to ask KJP about this crisis at the press briefing.
Perhaps she will have an answer in her book.

And, in case anyone thinks this is old footage.... July 20. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-formula-shortage-fda/

Honestly asking - how is that possible? This has been going on for half a year. There have been dozens of shipments from Europe. Did US manufacturing plants completely shut down?

Someone needs to ask this administration and see how they spin it.

Breast feed your Baby- who needs formula

Oh wait... the GOP is against paid maternity leave -guess all the women FORCED to give BIRTH will continue to have to go back to work at 6 weeks for their minimum wage jobs of $7/hr

I know women who WFH who refuse to breastfeed. You need formula -it’s literally essential for life. Basic necessity pp.

Actually, babies don't "need " artificial cow's milk based formula made in China or contaminated US factories as something " essential to their lives"

Human infants NEED Human milk, made naturally in the mother's body which not only provides ALL nutritional requirements, human breast milk is the ONLY source of transfer of the mother's immune globulins to her newborn to protect babies from various infectious illnesses.

Breast Milk is FREE and sanitary

So ironic that Republicans want to compel women to give birth, but refuse to support those very same women in breast feeding their babies -fully paid 1 year maternity leave

Instead, GOP wants to force more poor women to have babies and - at same time- start a trade war with CHINA- the main source of imported of cow's milk artificial baby formula, fail to inspect US based cow's milk artificial formula factories and allow trade monopolies to weaken the supply chain

No one needs, or should be given, a free ride year for a year so they can nurse. You already get FREE time from employers to pump and employers are forced to provide luxury nursing rooms for you. Oops, I forgot to mention other employees taking up your slack while you have your free pumping breaks.

Society is not responsible for your choice to procreate and don't give me your song and dance about your offspring paying for my social security.

Omg this must be satire right? I’m surprised you didn’t insert some pro-life nonsense while you were at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reporters need to ask KJP about this crisis at the press briefing.
Perhaps she will have an answer in her book.

And, in case anyone thinks this is old footage.... July 20. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-formula-shortage-fda/

Honestly asking - how is that possible? This has been going on for half a year. There have been dozens of shipments from Europe. Did US manufacturing plants completely shut down?

Someone needs to ask this administration and see how they spin it.

Breast feed your Baby- who needs formula

Oh wait... the GOP is against paid maternity leave -guess all the women FORCED to give BIRTH will continue to have to go back to work at 6 weeks for their minimum wage jobs of $7/hr

I know women who WFH who refuse to breastfeed. You need formula -it’s literally essential for life. Basic necessity pp.

Actually, babies don't "need " artificial cow's milk based formula made in China or contaminated US factories as something " essential to their lives"

Human infants NEED Human milk, made naturally in the mother's body which not only provides ALL nutritional requirements, human breast milk is the ONLY source of transfer of the mother's immune globulins to her newborn to protect babies from various infectious illnesses.

Breast Milk is FREE and sanitary

So ironic that Republicans want to compel women to give birth, but refuse to support those very same women in breast feeding their babies -fully paid 1 year maternity leave

Instead, GOP wants to force more poor women to have babies and - at same time- start a trade war with CHINA- the main source of imported of cow's milk artificial baby formula, fail to inspect US based cow's milk artificial formula factories and allow trade monopolies to weaken the supply chain

No one needs, or should be given, a free ride year for a year so they can nurse. You already get FREE time from employers to pump and employers are forced to provide luxury nursing rooms for you. Oops, I forgot to mention other employees taking up your slack while you have your free pumping breaks.

Society is not responsible for your choice to procreate and don't give me your song and dance about your offspring paying for my social security.

Maybe we should just boot all the moms from the workplace and then you dudes would have less competition and bitterness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reporters need to ask KJP about this crisis at the press briefing.
Perhaps she will have an answer in her book.

And, in case anyone thinks this is old footage.... July 20. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/baby-formula-shortage-fda/

Honestly asking - how is that possible? This has been going on for half a year. There have been dozens of shipments from Europe. Did US manufacturing plants completely shut down?

Someone needs to ask this administration and see how they spin it.

Breast feed your Baby- who needs formula

Oh wait... the GOP is against paid maternity leave -guess all the women FORCED to give BIRTH will continue to have to go back to work at 6 weeks for their minimum wage jobs of $7/hr

I know women who WFH who refuse to breastfeed. You need formula -it’s literally essential for life. Basic necessity pp.

Actually, babies don't "need " artificial cow's milk based formula made in China or contaminated US factories as something " essential to their lives"

Human infants NEED Human milk, made naturally in the mother's body which not only provides ALL nutritional requirements, human breast milk is the ONLY source of transfer of the mother's immune globulins to her newborn to protect babies from various infectious illnesses.

Breast Milk is FREE and sanitary

So ironic that Republicans want to compel women to give birth, but refuse to support those very same women in breast feeding their babies -fully paid 1 year maternity leave

Instead, GOP wants to force more poor women to have babies and - at same time- start a trade war with CHINA- the main source of imported of cow's milk artificial baby formula, fail to inspect US based cow's milk artificial formula factories and allow trade monopolies to weaken the supply chain

No one needs, or should be given, a free ride year for a year so they can nurse. You already get FREE time from employers to pump and employers are forced to provide luxury nursing rooms for you. Oops, I forgot to mention other employees taking up your slack while you have your free pumping breaks.

Society is not responsible for your choice to procreate and don't give me your song and dance about your offspring paying for my social security.

Omg this must be satire right? I’m surprised you didn’t insert some pro-life nonsense while you were at it.

Agree! I wish he could be excluded from all benefits that a younger generation provide the wretched elderly in this country.