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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a reminder that the baby formula shortage is ongoing.

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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 [b]provide 1 year of maternity leave, 6 months of paternity leave,[/b] 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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

Ma'm respectfully it is not about the adult but the children and if you actually read my statement you would see that I used it as an example of providing for the support of the child directly through the family unit and how it might change outcomes for children.

I appreciate your husband's service and my grandmother raised 4 kids while he was in Vietnam and ended up having 2 more afterwards. Every time he came back for a couple days she ended up pregnant again. It was not ideal and it was not good for her or for the kids. She only survived because of the assistance from family and other officer's wives. They would work together since they all lived on base. That doesnt happen anymore and there is not a village pre-baked for most people. The military might be an exception but it probably would have been nice to have your husband home for a few months. Not everyone's job is going to be the same but the military should be providing assistance to new mothers when their husbands are deployed and vice versa. There is nothing shameful or wrong about having help. [/quote]

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