Posted on 07/18/2022 2:11:49 PM PDT by DFG
President Joe Biden's administration announced its 17th Operation Fly Formula mission on Monday as marketing data shows the baby formula shortage is getting worse.
The administration announced two flights to transport Nestlé Health Science amino acid-based formula from Switzerland to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on July 21 and 22.
The delivery will include the equivalent of 802,446 8-ounce bottles of formula, which will be distributed primarily to hospitals and home health care providers.
But, despite the rash of flights the administration has announced, U.S. stores are still struggling to stock baby formula on their shelves.
Formula availability dropped to its lowest level so far this year, with about 30% of products out of stock for the week ended July 3, according to the market-research firm IRI.
That translates into a 70% stock rate for that week, which is down from the 77% stock rate for the preceding week.
IRI tracks inventory of the product across more than 125,000 stores in the United Stats. Rates were hovering at 90% before the February recall and factory shutdown for Abbott Laboratories, which sparked the shortage.
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Abbott finally got it’s plant up and running again. Now if it only stays dry then maybe they can start meeting demand.
Potential future mothers duly noting this administration’s not so subtle message: “Babies are not welcome. If young pregnant PWVs allow their babies to be born alive, we will subject as many of those babies as possible to starvation.”
In my lifetime America has never had empty shelves this long.
30% out of stock?? not around here. More like 90% out.
My grandson and wife are having a time getting formula.
Ordered some online, 2.5 day supply, $70.
I’m checking stores for them.
The one they need in out everywhere. It’s the only one the baby will tolerate.
And no one has been talking to these mothers about nursing their babies for a few months??????
The government sparked the shortage as they do with almost everything.
“802,446 8-ounce bottles of formula”
WOW!!! Way to go Brandon. And up next chocolate rations will be increased 4 grams to reward we peasants for increasing production of left handed socks 14%.
By now, they could have filled the whole shipload of baby formula and deliver!
unpossible, it would be all over the news...
There’s something going on. This situation is not fully accounted for, in any explanation which I have read.
Can the mom do breastfeeding?
Even in conservative Alabama, only 35 - 40 percent of new mothers choose to breastfeed. It is very disturbing that many refuse to consiider it.
Those who can breastfeed and choose not to have nothing to complain about.
They have a source of free, perfect for the baby food that they refuse to use.
The ones who can’t are the ones my heart goes out to.
I believe unless a woman starts at birth breastfeeding , their breasts dry up and they can't go back.
“The ones who can’t are the ones my heart goes out to.”
When my son was born my first wife dried up after about 5 weeks. Nothing would restart her. We depended on formula.
I’m getting pretty tired of the “just breast feed” crowd around here.
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There’s nothing wrong with the *just breastfeed* thinking. Every woman who actually gives birth should at least try. If they can’t, they can’t. But no one is going to know until and unless they try.
Especially today in light of the known formula shortage. It’s not like this shortage has caught anyone by surprise at this point. Any mother who doesn’t at least try knowing that formula is iffy, has no basis for complaint about formula availability, not when they have a potentially unlimited source of free, sterile, cheap food they can use and CHOOSE not to.
Sometimes stuff happens that makes breastfeeding not work and there needs to be options for those women. If enough women who could breastfeed did, then there’d be enough formula for those like your wife.
But that’s not the problem. If someone can breastfeed, they should. The whining I am not interested in is the ones who can and won’t, not the ones who can’t and would.
BIG difference.
Actually, there is about a week where a woman can start after giving birth.
The first few days is colostrum, which is EXCELLENT for the baby. Then it changes over to milk and the milk comes in whether you nurse from the moment of birth or not.
With one of my roommates after giving birth, she was planning on going back to work in a few weeks so decided to not even try, just went straight to formula. Her milk came in anyways and she was in agony. I always thought she’d have had a much easier time of it if she had nursed for a few weeks then switched over to formula and gradually dried herself off.
Milk production is based on demand. At the very least, you can switch over to formula and then pump just enough to relieve the pressure. You’ll dry up quick enough that way.
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