bev
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Not just girls, unfortunately.
FOOD Desperate parents can't find baby formula amid national shortage & stores ration cans after infection killed baby and caused huge recall
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Not just girls, unfortunately.
TKO
Veteran Member
I need to get the Xiden "I did that" stickers and put next to the baby formula. It's going to get worse. As desperate mom's go to powdered milk and weirdo formulas, kids are going to die from that...electrolyte imbalances. Infant deaths were higher in the older days when women did just that...made up these formulas. Xiden and the lesbos do not care. Better to kill them like this than to even abort. Saw a sign today at Meijer. "Limit of 2 except for WIC". Read this as "Limit 2 for whites....Illegals can have as much as they want".
hunybee
Veteran Member
hunybee
Veteran Member
and i am glad that abbot has finally pushed back at the lies.
make no mistake, i do not think that abbot is pure as the driven snow by any means. there definite issues with the plant and the company.
but no one should be made to take the fall on something they didn't do or were not responsible for.
make no mistake, i do not think that abbot is pure as the driven snow by any means. there definite issues with the plant and the company.
but no one should be made to take the fall on something they didn't do or were not responsible for.
Leonard Cohen - The Future (Live in London) - YouTube
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americandigest.org
The Progs: They Hate the Church More Than They Hate Life Itself
by VANDERLEUN on MAY 12, 2022
Modern liberalism is an acid that burns through everything it touches. The Church has shriveled in proportion to its exposure to it. Now those who have long sought its death present themselves, carrying more of this acid, as its healer, and even, as Thomas Cahill wrote in the New York Times, finger Pope John Paul II, who resisted it, as the Church’s enemy…. He then proposes a “solution,” which amounts to trading the teachings of Jesus Christ for modern liberalism.
— St. Peter’s in Chains By George Neumayr in The American Spectator
NEWMAYR’S OBSERVATION that “Modern liberalism is an acid that burns through everything it touches” is of the moment. Today’s progressivism/liberalism (ProgLibIsm) is as dark as the various icons it worships with an almost perverted frenzy.
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
Give me Christ
Or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don’t like children anyhow
I’ve seen the future, baby: It is murder
– – Leonard Cohen
As a one-time card-carrying member of the Culture of Death, I’ve felt the acid burn out the soul and replace it with the dead-end secular totems of possessions, fashion, sexuality, and ego-uber-alles. There is no faux-Randian “virtue of selfishness” when the ProgLibs wield it. I’ve used selfishness to “enhance” my own life and I’ve had “selfishness” used on me in turn to enhance the lives of others.
Money and things drive the ProgLib elites and their unAmerican culture. Vows have zero meaning to them. Truth, less than zero.
In ProgLibIsm spouses are traded for houses much as a fresh bottle of wine is picked up at the grocery store while the drained ones are hidden in the trash.
Commitment and duty have no place in ProgLibIsm — everything is reduced to “lifestyle” choices in which, since people are only things — only soulless lumps and clumps of cells that have grown credit ratings — they can easily be replaced by other things or other people to be used as things, as draft animals for hauling bloated elite egos around the landscape, as checkbooks that pay for frantic feminine fantasies and self-fulfillment until at last they are overdrawn. The is no god in this Brave New 1984 World unless it is the god of Get Yours.
I remember when this acid burned strongly on all fronts and seemed, in the main, unstoppable because it seemed to have become ‘the universal solvent’ — something that could dissolve all that it came in contact with. The flaw in that formula was, of course, the flaw that lurks in the ancient alchemical nature of the universal solvent — it will eventually burn through everything, even its container.
What we’ve seen in the last year is the evidence that the container that holds antiquated ProgLibIsm is beginning to be eaten through at last. I’ve been struck again and again by just how small, mean and trivial the daily “victories” of the ProgLibIsm propaganda mills of the media seem to be.
Under advanced demographic attack by the rigid and extreme conservatism of Islam across Europe, ProgLibIsm in those states seems to be falling back on extending its failed policies of bribes and accommodation — as if offering greater “police-safe” zones in cities and ever higher doles will cause the swelling future to live in peace with the settled present. In time these zones will fail and the demand for bribes in terms of benefits will become so high they cannot be paid. At which point the surviving Europeans will become yet another Islamic food source.
Instead of perpetuating itself, European ProgLibIsm looks to the small still fungible victories of jobs for life”!” and long vacations. In the end, Europe will get, in the words of the aptly named Grateful Dead, “A vacation for the rest of its life.” It’s working on that now by poking the Nuclear Bear; begging for the closure that only something truly thermonuclear can bestow.
Lacking real electoral power outside of its ProgLibIsm urban sanctuaries, and finding its support among the ordinary people of America waning with every passing election, American ProgLibIsm has had to withdraw into its armed hamlets of urban ghettos, academia, and the media; hamlets where it is existing on thinner and thinner gruel as time goes by at the same time it is battening on stolen powers. Any university you care to name is now a poster child for how little ProgLibIst academia thinks of free speech. You can see the acid eating its way through the walls of the containers. Soon it will etch the faces of those containers with the melting scars of chemical burns.
None of this is to say that the ProgLibIsm is soon to be a sad historical episode — although its stock and trade seem to be one sad historical episode after the other. ProgLibIsm culture and the people who promulgate and promote it are far too entrenched in the fabric of America — in our schools on all levels, in our media, local and national, in our politics, local, state, and national, and, most insidious of all, in our “approved” national arts and entertainment. Like parasites, the nation is lousy with them. They are far too embedded to vanish like a choking fog at the break of day. They will have to be dug out one by one like embedded ticks bloated with black blood like the political vampires they are.
It is to say that the American demographic, at its roots, has changed and that, in time and perhaps not such a long time, this increasingly sad ProgLibIsm hodge-podge of half-baked new-age nostrums, impoverished politics, and intellectual insanity will prove to confirm its own well-worshipped social Darwinism and, irrelevant at last, travel down the path to extinction.
Only by Fire is Fascism Finished.
This Sin is demanded that Your Line may Live.
Only through Fire is Freedom Reborn.
Each generation pulls the Sword from the Stone.
— Only By Fire is Fascism Finished
Leonard Cohen - The Future (Live in London)
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The Progs: They Hate the Church More Than They Hate Life Itself
Modern liberalism is an acid that burns through everything it touches. The Church has shriveled in proportion to its exposure to it. Now those who have long sought its death present themselves, carrying more of this acid, as its healer, and even, as Thomas Cahill wrote in the New York Times...
americandigest.org
The Progs: They Hate the Church More Than They Hate Life Itself
by VANDERLEUN on MAY 12, 2022
Modern liberalism is an acid that burns through everything it touches. The Church has shriveled in proportion to its exposure to it. Now those who have long sought its death present themselves, carrying more of this acid, as its healer, and even, as Thomas Cahill wrote in the New York Times, finger Pope John Paul II, who resisted it, as the Church’s enemy…. He then proposes a “solution,” which amounts to trading the teachings of Jesus Christ for modern liberalism.
— St. Peter’s in Chains By George Neumayr in The American Spectator
NEWMAYR’S OBSERVATION that “Modern liberalism is an acid that burns through everything it touches” is of the moment. Today’s progressivism/liberalism (ProgLibIsm) is as dark as the various icons it worships with an almost perverted frenzy.
Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
Give me Christ
Or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don’t like children anyhow
I’ve seen the future, baby: It is murder
– – Leonard Cohen
As a one-time card-carrying member of the Culture of Death, I’ve felt the acid burn out the soul and replace it with the dead-end secular totems of possessions, fashion, sexuality, and ego-uber-alles. There is no faux-Randian “virtue of selfishness” when the ProgLibs wield it. I’ve used selfishness to “enhance” my own life and I’ve had “selfishness” used on me in turn to enhance the lives of others.
Money and things drive the ProgLib elites and their unAmerican culture. Vows have zero meaning to them. Truth, less than zero.
In ProgLibIsm spouses are traded for houses much as a fresh bottle of wine is picked up at the grocery store while the drained ones are hidden in the trash.
Commitment and duty have no place in ProgLibIsm — everything is reduced to “lifestyle” choices in which, since people are only things — only soulless lumps and clumps of cells that have grown credit ratings — they can easily be replaced by other things or other people to be used as things, as draft animals for hauling bloated elite egos around the landscape, as checkbooks that pay for frantic feminine fantasies and self-fulfillment until at last they are overdrawn. The is no god in this Brave New 1984 World unless it is the god of Get Yours.
I remember when this acid burned strongly on all fronts and seemed, in the main, unstoppable because it seemed to have become ‘the universal solvent’ — something that could dissolve all that it came in contact with. The flaw in that formula was, of course, the flaw that lurks in the ancient alchemical nature of the universal solvent — it will eventually burn through everything, even its container.
What we’ve seen in the last year is the evidence that the container that holds antiquated ProgLibIsm is beginning to be eaten through at last. I’ve been struck again and again by just how small, mean and trivial the daily “victories” of the ProgLibIsm propaganda mills of the media seem to be.
Under advanced demographic attack by the rigid and extreme conservatism of Islam across Europe, ProgLibIsm in those states seems to be falling back on extending its failed policies of bribes and accommodation — as if offering greater “police-safe” zones in cities and ever higher doles will cause the swelling future to live in peace with the settled present. In time these zones will fail and the demand for bribes in terms of benefits will become so high they cannot be paid. At which point the surviving Europeans will become yet another Islamic food source.
Instead of perpetuating itself, European ProgLibIsm looks to the small still fungible victories of jobs for life”!” and long vacations. In the end, Europe will get, in the words of the aptly named Grateful Dead, “A vacation for the rest of its life.” It’s working on that now by poking the Nuclear Bear; begging for the closure that only something truly thermonuclear can bestow.
Lacking real electoral power outside of its ProgLibIsm urban sanctuaries, and finding its support among the ordinary people of America waning with every passing election, American ProgLibIsm has had to withdraw into its armed hamlets of urban ghettos, academia, and the media; hamlets where it is existing on thinner and thinner gruel as time goes by at the same time it is battening on stolen powers. Any university you care to name is now a poster child for how little ProgLibIst academia thinks of free speech. You can see the acid eating its way through the walls of the containers. Soon it will etch the faces of those containers with the melting scars of chemical burns.
None of this is to say that the ProgLibIsm is soon to be a sad historical episode — although its stock and trade seem to be one sad historical episode after the other. ProgLibIsm culture and the people who promulgate and promote it are far too entrenched in the fabric of America — in our schools on all levels, in our media, local and national, in our politics, local, state, and national, and, most insidious of all, in our “approved” national arts and entertainment. Like parasites, the nation is lousy with them. They are far too embedded to vanish like a choking fog at the break of day. They will have to be dug out one by one like embedded ticks bloated with black blood like the political vampires they are.
It is to say that the American demographic, at its roots, has changed and that, in time and perhaps not such a long time, this increasingly sad ProgLibIsm hodge-podge of half-baked new-age nostrums, impoverished politics, and intellectual insanity will prove to confirm its own well-worshipped social Darwinism and, irrelevant at last, travel down the path to extinction.
Only by Fire is Fascism Finished.
This Sin is demanded that Your Line may Live.
Only through Fire is Freedom Reborn.
Each generation pulls the Sword from the Stone.
— Only By Fire is Fascism Finished
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bw
Fringe Ranger
That's not going to calm the herd.
hunybee
Veteran Member
yup.
but the fact that more people are becoming aware of this is a good thing. i have been trying very hard to not to go full out "wake up" (slap, slap!) on people by pointing out what it means, not only in this particular and specific situation, but in the bigger picture.
raw materials are an issue across the board.
manufacturing is an issue across the board.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
It's been the top story on social media since last weekend! It's been in the local news all week, central Iowa.
pauldingbabe
The Great Cat
"virtue of selfishness”
Perfect sentiment for today.
Perfect sentiment for today.
Dux
Veteran Member
I don't remember where, but I read somewhere today ( maybe here on TB ) that US govt has sent a large amount of bavy formula to Ukraine. If so, I hope all those parents remember that come November !
EDIT / CORRECTION -
Just heard on Real Americas Voice, they said the Biden Admin was shipping pallets of baby formula to the border, to give to the illegals.
You forget; your vote doesn't count
hunybee
Veteran Member
Baby formula shortage fueling spike in milk bank interest
It's a pathway that won't work for every formula-fed baby, especially those with special dietary needs, and challenges the country's dozens of nonprofit milk banks who prioritize feeding fragile infants.
Milk banks receive their usual monthly donation offers in a single DAY as moms around the US pitch in to help those affected by the baby formula crisis
- It's a pathway that won't work for every formula-fed baby, especially those with special dietary needs
- It also comes with challenges because the country's dozens of nonprofit milk banks prioritize feeding medically fragile infants
- The organizations collect milk from mothers and process it, including through pasteurization, then work with hospitals to distribute it
- The shortage stems from a safety recall and supply disruptions and has captured national attention with panicked parents looking to swap and buy formula
- President Biden urged manufacturers to increase production and discussing with retailers how they could restock shelves to meet regional disparities
America's baby formula shortage has sparked a surge of interest at milk banks around the United States, with some mothers offering to donate breast milk and desperate parents calling to see if it's a solution to keep their babies fed.
It's a pathway that won't work for every formula-fed baby, especially those with special dietary needs, and it comes with challenges because the country's dozens of nonprofit milk banks prioritize feeding medically fragile infants.
The organizations collect milk from mothers and process it, including through pasteurization, then work with hospitals to distribute it.
It is often frozen to make it easier to distribute across longer distances.
The shortage stemmed from a safety recall and supply disruptions and has captured national attention with panicked parents looking to swap and buy formula online.
President Joe Biden is urging manufacturers to increase production and discussing with retailers how they could restock shelves to meet regional disparities.
Biden's administration also said Friday that formula maker Abbott Laboratories committed to give rebates through August for a food stamp-like program that helps women, infants and children called WIC.
It was an outbreak of bacteria at Abbott's Michigan factory that triggered the current crisis, after three infants died as a result of drinking the tainted milk, with multiple other babies sickened.
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Milk lab technicians Welney Huang processes breast milk at the University of California Health Milk Bank
At the Mothers´ Milk Bank Northeast, based in Newton, Massachusetts, interest in donating and receiving milk because of the shortage has spiked.
Typically, the milk bank gets about 30-50 calls a month from people looking to donate. But on Thursday alone, 35 calls came in from potential donors, said Deborah Youngblood, the bank's executive director.
'It's interesting the first sort of response that we got was from potential donors - so people responding to the formula shortage with sort of an amazing, compassionate response of `how can I be part of the solution?´' she said.
Youngblood was talking about people like Kayla Gillespie, a 38-year-old mother of three from Hays, Kansas.
Gillespie first donated to the Mothers' Milk Bank in Denver six years ago, giving 18 gallons after the birth of her first child, and wasn't planning to do it again.
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'I thought 18 gallons was sufficient for one person,' she said. 'If I hadn't heard of the shortage, I wouldn't be going through the process again, just because I have three kids and it's a little chaotic around here.'
She has pledged at least 150 ounces of her milk, but said she expects to give much more than that.
'I´m very blessed with being able to produce milk, so I just felt I needed to do something,' she said.
She said in the past she has shipped her frozen milk in special containers to Denver, but this time, her local hospital is taking the donations and she can just drop them off.
It's not only donors, though. Parents desperately seeking nutrition for their babies are pursuing milk banks as well.
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At the Massachusetts milk bank, about 30 people called looking for milk because they couldn't find their baby's usual formula, Youngblood said. That's up from nearly no calls at all, since the milk bank typically serves hospitals.
The Human Milk Banking Association of North America, an accrediting organization for nonprofit milk banks, is seeing a 'major increase' in demand, according to Lindsay Groff, the group's executive director.
She estimates inquiries from parents seeking to fill the formula gap are up 20 percent in recent days.
Groff called the shortage a 'crisis' and said it's not as simple as parents just supplementing with donated human milk, because the vast majority of those supplies are earmarked for babies with medical conditions.
'If people can donate, now would be the time, because when we have more of an inventory we can look beyond the medically fragile,' she said.
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Parents are also turning to online breastmilk-swapping forums to meet their babies' needs.
Amanda Kastelein, a mother of three from Middlebury, Connecticut, has been supplementing the special formula she needs for 10-month-old Emerson with breast milk from a mom she found on a peer-to-peer Facebook page called Human Milk 4 Human Babies.
Kastelein stopped breastfeeding after getting recurring infections, but tried to begin re-lactating in March after the formula recall, with little success.
'Emerson is allergic to most of the formulas, so it's been difficult to find something he's not allergic to,' she said.
In stepped Hannah Breton of Naugatuck, Connecticut, who had been producing more milk than her 2 1/2-month-old son needs. She's been giving Kastelein about 60 ounces of milk every two weeks. That's enough to supplement her formula supply and keep Emerson fed.
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'She asked a bunch of questions - what medications I'm taking, if any, that kind of thing,' Breton said. 'So we decided, `OK, that's perfect.´ So, she comes by every couple weeks and picks up the milk I've been saving for her.'
'I do feel helpful,' she added. 'It's exciting and rewarding that I can give to a mom that can't find what she's looking for, and if her son can't take formula, I mean, it's scary.
Rebecca Heinrich, director of the Mothers´ Milk Bank in Colorado, advises those looking for milk that searching for donors on their own can carry risks.
'We want to make sure that these moms are being as safe as they can and meeting the needs of their infant, so consulting with their health-care provider on how to meet those needs is the best way to go,' she said.
The shortage creates difficulties particularly for lower-income families after the recall by formula maker Abbott, stemming from contamination concerns. The recall depleted many brands covered by WIC, a federal program like food stamps serving women, infants and children, though it now permits brand substitutes.
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On Friday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sent a letter to the head of Abbott Laboratories expressing what he called his 'grave concern regarding the accessibility of safe infant formula,' noting Abbott holds infant formula contracts in the federal WIC program.
Vilsack asked that Abbott continue a program that provides rebates for alternative products including formula for competitive brands, which it had been doing on a month-to-month basis. The White House said Friday Abbott committed to the rebates through the end of August.
The Biden administration said it's working with states to make it easier for WIC recipients to buy different sizes of formula that their benefits might not currently cover.
Abbott has said that pending Food and Drug Administration approval, it could restart a manufacturing site 'within two weeks.'
The company would begin by producing EleCare, Alimentum and metabolic formulas and then start production of Similac and other formulas. Once production begins, it would take six to eight weeks for the formula to be available on shelves.
On Tuesday, the FDA said it was working with U.S. manufacturers to increase their output and streamline paperwork to allow more imports.
homecanner1
Veteran Member
Probably the goal was "malnouished" infants.
Very easy with compromised pediatricians to sign off on "unfit mother" let her baby fall under 20 lbs etc and court ordered off to the gay foster couple to raise them "better" in an LGBTQ positive household.
All of this is just evil beyond belief, buying up Canadian stocks only creates shortages up north too.
What is this I hear power weight lifters use baby formula too in some kind of liquid diet protocol?
Homemade emergency replacement may be best option for now.
Very easy with compromised pediatricians to sign off on "unfit mother" let her baby fall under 20 lbs etc and court ordered off to the gay foster couple to raise them "better" in an LGBTQ positive household.
All of this is just evil beyond belief, buying up Canadian stocks only creates shortages up north too.
What is this I hear power weight lifters use baby formula too in some kind of liquid diet protocol?
Homemade emergency replacement may be best option for now.
Marie
Veteran Member
The brainwashing is ridiculous any infant over 6 months can safely, barring allergies or medical conditions,drink whole cows milk with added poly-vi-sol for nutrients if and that's a big if they aren't on a completely nutritious solid food diet.Baby formula shortage fueling spike in milk bank interest
It's a pathway that won't work for every formula-fed baby, especially those with special dietary needs, and challenges the country's dozens of nonprofit milk banks who prioritize feeding fragile infants.www.dailymail.co.uk
Milk banks receive their usual monthly donation offers in a single DAY as moms around the US pitch in to help those affected by the baby formula crisis
- It's a pathway that won't work for every formula-fed baby, especially those with special dietary needs
- It also comes with challenges because the country's dozens of nonprofit milk banks prioritize feeding medically fragile infants
- The organizations collect milk from mothers and process it, including through pasteurization, then work with hospitals to distribute it
- The shortage stems from a safety recall and supply disruptions and has captured national attention with panicked parents looking to swap and buy formula
- President Biden urged manufacturers to increase production and discussing with retailers how they could restock shelves to meet regional disparities
America's baby formula shortage has sparked a surge of interest at milk banks around the United States, with some mothers offering to donate breast milk and desperate parents calling to see if it's a solution to keep their babies fed.
It's a pathway that won't work for every formula-fed baby, especially those with special dietary needs, and it comes with challenges because the country's dozens of nonprofit milk banks prioritize feeding medically fragile infants.
The organizations collect milk from mothers and process it, including through pasteurization, then work with hospitals to distribute it.
It is often frozen to make it easier to distribute across longer distances.
The shortage stemmed from a safety recall and supply disruptions and has captured national attention with panicked parents looking to swap and buy formula online.
President Joe Biden is urging manufacturers to increase production and discussing with retailers how they could restock shelves to meet regional disparities.
Biden's administration also said Friday that formula maker Abbott Laboratories committed to give rebates through August for a food stamp-like program that helps women, infants and children called WIC.
It was an outbreak of bacteria at Abbott's Michigan factory that triggered the current crisis, after three infants died as a result of drinking the tainted milk, with multiple other babies sickened.
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Rebecca Heinrich, director of the Mothers' Milk Bank, loads frozen milk donated by lactating mothers from plastic bags into bottles for distribution to babies
Milk lab technicians Welney Huang processes breast milk at the University of California Health Milk Bank
At the Mothers´ Milk Bank Northeast, based in Newton, Massachusetts, interest in donating and receiving milk because of the shortage has spiked.
Typically, the milk bank gets about 30-50 calls a month from people looking to donate. But on Thursday alone, 35 calls came in from potential donors, said Deborah Youngblood, the bank's executive director.
'It's interesting the first sort of response that we got was from potential donors - so people responding to the formula shortage with sort of an amazing, compassionate response of `how can I be part of the solution?´' she said.
Youngblood was talking about people like Kayla Gillespie, a 38-year-old mother of three from Hays, Kansas.
Gillespie first donated to the Mothers' Milk Bank in Denver six years ago, giving 18 gallons after the birth of her first child, and wasn't planning to do it again.
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It's a pathway that won't work for every formula-fed baby, especially those with special dietary needs, and it comes with challenges because the country's dozens of nonprofit milk banks prioritize feeding medically fragile infants
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Heinrich advises those looking for milk that searching for donors on their own can carry risks
'I thought 18 gallons was sufficient for one person,' she said. 'If I hadn't heard of the shortage, I wouldn't be going through the process again, just because I have three kids and it's a little chaotic around here.'
She has pledged at least 150 ounces of her milk, but said she expects to give much more than that.
'I´m very blessed with being able to produce milk, so I just felt I needed to do something,' she said.
She said in the past she has shipped her frozen milk in special containers to Denver, but this time, her local hospital is taking the donations and she can just drop them off.
It's not only donors, though. Parents desperately seeking nutrition for their babies are pursuing milk banks as well.
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Bottles of frozen milk donated by lactating mothers waits to be loaded into refrigerators
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Elizabeth Amador bottle feeds her daughter Destinee, 9 months, at the Ellis R. Shipp Public Health Center
At the Massachusetts milk bank, about 30 people called looking for milk because they couldn't find their baby's usual formula, Youngblood said. That's up from nearly no calls at all, since the milk bank typically serves hospitals.
The Human Milk Banking Association of North America, an accrediting organization for nonprofit milk banks, is seeing a 'major increase' in demand, according to Lindsay Groff, the group's executive director.
She estimates inquiries from parents seeking to fill the formula gap are up 20 percent in recent days.
Groff called the shortage a 'crisis' and said it's not as simple as parents just supplementing with donated human milk, because the vast majority of those supplies are earmarked for babies with medical conditions.
'If people can donate, now would be the time, because when we have more of an inventory we can look beyond the medically fragile,' she said.
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Ashley Maddox feeds her 5-month-old son, Cole, with formula she bought through a Facebook group of mothers in need
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Executive director of Mothers' Milk Bank of the Northeast, Deborah Youngblood, poses in her office. She says interest in milk banks has soared due to the ongoing formula shortage
Parents are also turning to online breastmilk-swapping forums to meet their babies' needs.
Amanda Kastelein, a mother of three from Middlebury, Connecticut, has been supplementing the special formula she needs for 10-month-old Emerson with breast milk from a mom she found on a peer-to-peer Facebook page called Human Milk 4 Human Babies.
Kastelein stopped breastfeeding after getting recurring infections, but tried to begin re-lactating in March after the formula recall, with little success.
'Emerson is allergic to most of the formulas, so it's been difficult to find something he's not allergic to,' she said.
In stepped Hannah Breton of Naugatuck, Connecticut, who had been producing more milk than her 2 1/2-month-old son needs. She's been giving Kastelein about 60 ounces of milk every two weeks. That's enough to supplement her formula supply and keep Emerson fed.
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Lab manager Shantel Collins holds a pasteurized container of breast milk
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Lab manager Shantel Collins stands in the freezer next to a shelf of pasteurized breast milk
'She asked a bunch of questions - what medications I'm taking, if any, that kind of thing,' Breton said. 'So we decided, `OK, that's perfect.´ So, she comes by every couple weeks and picks up the milk I've been saving for her.'
'I do feel helpful,' she added. 'It's exciting and rewarding that I can give to a mom that can't find what she's looking for, and if her son can't take formula, I mean, it's scary.
Rebecca Heinrich, director of the Mothers´ Milk Bank in Colorado, advises those looking for milk that searching for donors on their own can carry risks.
'We want to make sure that these moms are being as safe as they can and meeting the needs of their infant, so consulting with their health-care provider on how to meet those needs is the best way to go,' she said.
The shortage creates difficulties particularly for lower-income families after the recall by formula maker Abbott, stemming from contamination concerns. The recall depleted many brands covered by WIC, a federal program like food stamps serving women, infants and children, though it now permits brand substitutes.
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Milk lab technicians Welney Huang, right, and Nguyen Nguyen, process breast milk at the University of California Health Milk Bank
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Milk lab technician Welney Huang processes breast milk
On Friday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack sent a letter to the head of Abbott Laboratories expressing what he called his 'grave concern regarding the accessibility of safe infant formula,' noting Abbott holds infant formula contracts in the federal WIC program.
Vilsack asked that Abbott continue a program that provides rebates for alternative products including formula for competitive brands, which it had been doing on a month-to-month basis. The White House said Friday Abbott committed to the rebates through the end of August.
The Biden administration said it's working with states to make it easier for WIC recipients to buy different sizes of formula that their benefits might not currently cover.
Abbott has said that pending Food and Drug Administration approval, it could restart a manufacturing site 'within two weeks.'
The company would begin by producing EleCare, Alimentum and metabolic formulas and then start production of Similac and other formulas. Once production begins, it would take six to eight weeks for the formula to be available on shelves.
On Tuesday, the FDA said it was working with U.S. manufacturers to increase their output and streamline paperwork to allow more imports.
My god I get so tired of the brain washed masses
annieosage
Inactive
My daughters friend saw her pediatrician and when she said she can’t find formula and asked him about making it his response was “that’s a sweet sentiment”. What an effing condescending comment! And she follows his advice. Her baby has a heart murmur and is underweight. She will never divert from what he tells her.
Meanwhile DD and I drove to 5 stores this morning and couldn’t find a single can of what she needs. Shelves were 90%-95% empty.
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pauldingbabe
The Great Cat
You betcha.
wintery_storm
Veteran Member
could never figure that out. I mean what is the deal with breasts. I was born unfortunately over compensated. I hate the jokes and guys trying to grab them in grade and high school. It was abuse.
It really did a number on my body image.
When I was in my 40's my back hurt so much from them and Finally a doctor agreed I needed a reduction. That was the best thing that ever happened to me. The weight and pain Gone. I was smaller but still sized for my body shape.
I did not care about the long scare marks on them. I was Free..
wintery_storm
Veteran Member
I would as her Mom called the SOB up or go to his office and demand his samples. And give him a piece of my mind. I have several Doctors in the family and my husband worked in Pharma and he even said today that this Baby formula is a Gimmic to make Money.
We both agreed our parents gave up the Karo and can Pet milk as babies and we are fine.
If you can't find it then your daughter has no choice but to make up the old fashion ingredience until she can get what she needs. Or buy it for a high price on ebay.
I find it interesting that there was this huge recall and plant shut down, but we can send pallets to the border. The recall was to get all the for,uma they could and start shipping it. And I bet some is going to the refugee camps
Don’t Mexican babies need safe formula too?
That is how you know this is all BS. If the formula really was contaminated they wouldn’t be sending it anywhere.
Don’t Mexican babies need safe formula too?
That is how you know this is all BS. If the formula really was contaminated they wouldn’t be sending it anywhere.
To me, men leaving me alone finally was the best thing about getting old.
wintery_storm
Veteran Member
Terrwyn;
I agree. I was always hit on and it was not for me but my body. I hated it. Yes I was a very pretty red head. But still even after I married it was constant. they did not care I was married. I hated it.
llknp
Senior Member
I was talking to a friend earlier today about this. She told me to go to Amazon and check for availability of name brands of formula. Most were out of stock. Then she told me to go and change the Amazon country to Canada. All the formulas were in stock and available. Still think we aren't being played?
annieosage
Inactive
Trust me this is not my daughter. It’s her friend
annieosage
Inactive
We actually tried to order from Amazon.ca but they would not ship to a US address…
Marie
Veteran Member
Common myth is you can't milk meat goats. Their milk is not as palatable as some dairy goats but perfectly drinkable. Same of course goes for cows. We milked both as kids.
usafwifey
Member
I live in Massachusetts and the formula shelves are empty. My mom and I drove all over town the last 2 days looking for formula for my best friend (she has a three month old baby). We tried Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, Stop and Shop and other miscellaneous grocery stores and we never found even one container. Amazon is sold out, Amazon Canada is sold out and/or won't ship to the U.S. ... It's so scary.
annieosage
Inactive
Josie
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Yes, and I have one liberal wacko friend from college that posted on her facebook page that "MIGRANT" babies have hearbeats too. I sooo wanted to reply that this was spoken by a person with no babies that needed this formula (which she doesn't). Citizen babies of THIS country have heartbeats too but no law to protect their foodsource. Babies of ILLEGALS also have a home country. Instead, she went back on snooze. I am very quickly approaching the point where she will be unfriended. I hate doing that because we share some wonderful memories of our college days.
MinnesotaSmith
Membership Revoked
See if you can find a Canada-based remailer that will ship to the U.S.
MinnesotaSmith
Membership Revoked
That also means that most will no longer care if you live or die, seeing no possible use for you. Still like that change?
Could care less. I made it to 79 which considering my misspent youth was a miracle. I'm on the downhill now. So somebody caring or not caring doesn't make a shed of difference.
Panner
Veteran Member
A thought just occurred to me this morning. Is the baby food plant that was shut down a union or non-union plant? Sure enough it was non-union. This explains why the Biden administration made no effort to get it up and running. They are completely evil with what they are doing to Americans.