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

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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.

Why in the world would one need a year of maternity leave PLUS 6 months of paternity leave? My husband was active duty military and deployed within weeks of the births of my babies---DEPLOYED to a foreign country for 7+ months. Not around AT ALL---not "in his home office from 10 am-1 pm but able to come out and get coffee, walk the dog, and do whatever as often as he wants."
I managed to breastfeed all my babies.

NP: So you were a SAHM. That already puts you ahead of a lot of mothers who went back to work at 6 weeks. Hard to breastfeed your babies when you're away from them most of the day.

Boo hoo. Live within your means and you can stay home with your children and breastfeed all day long.

This is the way. Too many families are overextended and reliant on two incomes. They have no savings and no plan for one parent being down for any reason. Live within your means, save for the future, and sacrifice for your future children.

Women should know their proper place is in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.

But only after they've spent their 20s paying off their student loan debt.

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Anonymous wrote:As a Texan the thread here is hard to read for the lack of empathy. There’s a pipeline (or maybe cycle) from education (including sex ed) to reproductive services to maternity support to childcare back to education, where at every stage there is not just apathy but something like schadenfreude driving people in a race to the bottom.

Not sure what your being from Texas has to do with anything at all, but I agree with you. People want to be aggressively rude, want to push the idea that if you do not accomplish everything entirely on your own then that means “you suck and I did everything on my own so why can’t you?” and generally don’t seem to get that treating other people as warmly as a venereal disease doesn’t lift anyone up.

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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

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.

You should probably stop talking. Maternity / Paternity leave is not a "free ride." What kind of a--hole even says that? People (and children with issues that require it) are healing, many dealing with mental health issues (PPD), stress, etc. Having to balance those things with work after a few weeks is extremely stressful and difficult (and my birth experience was easy and I still struggled). It is beneficial to families and societies -to have healthy well adjusted kids, parents, and workers- not to mention the morally indicate position to allow to a) allow it to happen, and b) recognize it's importance.

Your post is a callous, selfish, ignorant one. And one mostly relegated to a different era, though not yet fully, as posts like yours demonstrate. The sort of society you describe, that runs families into the ground, is not one that holds any virtue and is one that most other developed countries like ours shun. They mock us and they should. It's embarrassing. People like you are embarassing.

Put it to a vote nationwide and you will find out how wrong you are.

And people wonder why there is an opioid epidemic in America...

What is the connection between opioid epidemic and maternity leave?

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Anonymous wrote:As a Texan the thread here is hard to read for the lack of empathy. There’s a pipeline (or maybe cycle) from education (including sex ed) to reproductive services to maternity support to childcare back to education, where at every stage there is not just apathy but something like schadenfreude driving people in a race to the bottom.

Not sure what your being from Texas has to do with anything at all, but I agree with you. People want to be aggressively rude, want to push the idea that if you do not accomplish everything entirely on your own then that means “you suck and I did everything on my own so why can’t you?” and generally don’t seem to get that treating other people as warmly as a venereal disease doesn’t lift anyone up.

I meant the Texan thing as, it’s hard/ironic to know that women in this state have trouble getting abortions even for life-threatening conditions, and then go see the attitude becomes “just live within your means so you can breastfeed” for babies with health issues after birth (the ones most affected by the formula shortage). It’s just… how can these be real expectations for people to meet?

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At this point, if there's still a shortage, then that's ENTIRELY on the private sector.

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The baby formula company, Abbott Laboratories, is now under federal criminal investigation.

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Anonymous wrote:The baby formula company, Abbott Laboratories, is now under federal criminal investigation.

Yup. It looks like they manipulated the whole "shortage." During the whole crisis I noticed my local Walmarts all seemed well-stocked with formula. I guess Walmart is too big to cross. I hope people at Abbott go to jail if babies were harmed.

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It's not the Biden Administration's fault, it's due to nature of the infant formula industry including consolidation and aging manufacturing facilities. What would have the Biden Administration do that they can do under existing law?

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Oh, those Republican women