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

[twitter]https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1600127357418844160[/twitter][/quote]

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]

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.[/quote]

PP you quoted here.   Yes, and if this hypothetical person got 1 year of maternity leave, they would also be a SAHM for that year.   Why do they additionally need their husband home 24/7 for six months?[/quote]

In countries with significant paternity leave, the father typically stays at home during the first 4-6 weeks during the mother's physical recovery and then the mother and father stagger their parental leave so that one parent is with the child(ren) throughout their first 12-18 months of life.  Countries that require more equity between men and women in parental leave also see their gender pay gap shrink and more paternal involvement in the family.  Greater parental leave overall lowers infant mortality and child abuse.

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Thank you, PP. Again maternity and paternity leave are not some wild liberal alien idea conjured during an ayahuasca session. They are already in place in much of the world and countries continue to provide them because they do improve outcomes. I realize the US and its citizens tend to think they are exceptional and therefore exempt from comparisons to other countries which is why I suggested a small-scale trial in the US across all socioeconomic levels.

-born and raised in the US and think we can do better[/quote]

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