It has been covered on Fox and mentioned on the mainstream news.

You haven't got the beginnings of a clue, my wife was unable to produce milk, and this is not an uncommon issue.

Spoken by someone who doesn't have a clue.

We raised three kids and never used formula.
People are treating this like obesity in America.
"I have a thyroid problem!"  Sure you do.
Not being fat is hard work.
Nursing a baby is hard work.
But sure, there probably does exist that fraction
of 1% that are legitimately fat because of a thyroid problem.

China plays the long game. less Mil age males 20 years from now.

Fixed. Apparently, they prefer foreign babies over domestic ones.

But the "great replacement" is just a conspiracy theory.

It's still a crisis. 1st world country forced to used 3rd world improvised solutions not only affects the US, the rest of the world suffers worse.

I was told via some mommy groups that if you select Canada as a source on Amazon their stock is better and you can order via that route. Not sure how true it is but if you're in need give that a try. Thankfully (because of this and for my wallet) my son should be weaning off formula this month.

Politics aside, even during the height of COVID back when it was assumed to be apocalyptic there weren’t supply issues past the first month or two. Trump kept shit on the shelves. This shit happening now is inexcusable and undeniably poor management.

The problem is that you don't know who to believe. These are the same people that told us not to treat COVID until it was in an advanced stage.

I'm sure formula is the optimal solution but homemade may be ok for an interim solution. If they don't recommend a solution to feed your baby they are part of the problem.

Switch your VPN to Canada and look at ebay and Amazon. As of yesterday, no limits and very little price increase.

Women that voted for biden will still vote for biden. They won’t accept that they were wrong.

Percentage wise, it's a small part of the problem, but still a problem. The lion's share of the problem is, as usual, political and bureaucratic incompetence and screwups.
Washington Examiner article

Even with the runaway invasion of illegal immigrants in 2022, it's still a small but finite part of the problem.


FWIW, My wife and I were children during WW2. Boiled water, condensed milk, Karo syrup, and some readily available supplements were the order of the day for everybody. Today, it can be supplemented with what formula is available. IMHO, the illegals should be the ones getting the condensed milk and Karo substitute.

He'll fix it like he lowered gas prices.

Look at the mortality tables.


Table

We're inflationary now, the big guy raised his take to 20%.

Source?

ETA: You wont find one because this is bullshit

That includes deaths from other causes, too. Remember that penicillin wasn't available until around the time of WW2, and a multitude of other antibiotics entered the market in the decades following. The Salk and Sabine innoculations for Polio didn't hit the market until the early '60.
Surgical procedures and diagnostics have also advanced by leaps and bounds during the same time period.

A brief timeline of baby formulas

And lets not leave out that it's far easier to tell if there are serious genetic/physical issues with a unborn child nowadays as opposed to way back when and people often abort them before birth which skews stats even more.

Not so for all women.

My wife couldn't nurse beyond 2.5-3 months and she dried up. Nothing could be done about it.

You can order as much as you want from Amazon.ca....


Or,


Tell the wife she has to deal with sore nipples like billions of women before her. Start inducing now if she dried up, takes about 2 weeks.

Sure they do. It's not complicated. They know, roughly, how much formula is needed. The amount needed will vary somewhat due to a variety of factors. If formula is scarce more women will breastfeed. And babies will get fed goat or cows milk instead of formula... it worked for millennia and it works today even if we are told it isn't ideal. As supplies come up then the usage will come up as well. But it's not hard to get some good estimates of usage.

Then there is the supply and you can bet that CEO has a real good idea about how much can be produced.  He probably has a good understanding of how much can be imported to alleviate the shortages as well. He can't know what other crap will be coming down the line to disrupt things. Maybe Biden officials will decided to shut down more plants. Maybe Biden officials will confiscate the formula so it can be shipped to other countries.

So he can't say for sure, but the CEO does have a good idea. Whether he is telling the truth or not is another matter.

I would actually say that the predictability of the baby formula market is one of the reasons there is a shortage. To make up numbers, if a million tons of baby formula gets used every year and your company has 25% of the market, then you have the capacity to produce a quarter million tons a year. Maybe you expand so you can produce 300k tons, just in case that ad campaign works out and to account for needed maintenance in some plants/lines but you don't invest in the needed factories to make a million tons all by yourself. If the market were more volatile then you might decided to expand production capacity so you can profit off of demand spikes, but for a product with as stable a demand as baby formula, there is no reason to do so.

And that means when the Biden officials shut down production at a major plant, there is no way to make up for the shortfall.

As far as Biden knowing the future goes... He is right in that he would have to know the future to have predicted this. And there is an actual way to predict the future called SCIENCE. In this case, understanding the science of economics makes many of the Biden failures entirely predictable. And maybe that is part of the problem with the Left, they are detached from the idea of cause and effect when it comes to the economy.

It's beyond incompetence, it's intentional and planned malice.

If the FDA and the MI plant that had a so called contamination could work at the speed took Congress to fund a few more billion to Ukraine......
You clean the plant, FDA inspects, tests a new sample of first batch through and it's done.

In the ghetto they don’t call it “formula.”

They say “baby melk” (pronounced just like it’s incorrectly spelled).

“Where da baby melk at?”

They are all factors. Poor nutrition is a major item. If you don’t eat a healthy diet, you are much more likely to get sick.

They never found a link between the plant and the contamination that killed two babies. They did find operation and training issues as well as a different contamination in a non production area. According to Fox News, the FDA got a tip in October, interview the Whistleblower  in December and inspected the plant at the end of January. They are moving very slow on this. Parents and their babies are paying the price for our broken government.

Only because you have political ideologue bureaucrats and the president holding up Abbott
If they told Abbott to resume production, and lifted the ban on Euro formulas, I’d bet they would have a very good idea how long it would take to replenish the supply chain - they know the competition’s output when running 100% or close to it
Because what government does seldom makes good sense, it cannot be accurately predicted.

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Putins fault in 3..2..1

If things get bad, drive/fly to Canada or Mexico. They shouldn’t be quite as bad off as we are.

Saw an interview with plant CEO. He said plant is ready, FDA is keeping closed.

Did I make it in before the Arftaliban declared that only whores use baby formula and all children should be breastfed or it's a sin?

You're raising one tough little kid. I hope you at least got him a milkshake to wash it down.

C’mon now!

You can’t start ‘em too early on McNuggets.

*not applicable to freshly arrived new citizens from south of the border

This is it in a nut shell.  We will know if we've got huge issues with our election security.  The one curveball is the abortion ruling bringing out people who might have sat at home instead...

I was wondering if there was a way to restart breast milk production with hormones or something.  All three of my kids were breast fed until momma went back to work and then we went to formula for convenience.

He continued nursing through 12 months. I had just got back from Afghanistan, he had teeth and was looking pretty hungrily at my chic fil a nuggets, so I let him have a little.

Once you get to ~6 months they don't have to have 100% breastmilk and formula. You can start mashing food up and letting them have a little. Or buy canned/pouched baby food and let them have that.

So, just like we all know, when you fuck with momma bear or her cub, you get mauled, so do the globalists. Anyone that thinks these types of shortages/issues are not at least being encouraged by the Left are blind. People love government regulation/control/interference when they promise to fix the issue. We all know that will not end well. Wet nurses are probably making a killing with the 10-15% of the population that can afford them right now. I have one son that was allergic to everything and due to illness my wife could not breast feed him. Without the special formula available, and this was 1991, we would have been fucked. 2nd son, no problem, wouldnt give up the tit till we forced him. There are also genetic disorders where infants cannot eat normal formula, nor breast milk.

If anyone runs across some Enfamil Neuropro give me a PM

This is not due to legitimate Democrat voters.   It was the massive vote fraud.  Those responsible ideally will be tried for a capital crime and publicly executed.

Give Super Walmart a try.  Web site showed that they were OOS and a visit there showed that the usual shelves were bare.  Wife noticed some on the endcap that was marked down to $20/case with a expiration date in 2023.  

We picked up some for our Granddaughter as we keep her during the week and I am not able to produce milk.
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With women forced to breastfeed, vaccinated women will pass the vaccine into the newborn babies.

One of many other reasons why nothing out of the ordinary today was just happen stance.

It's called breast feeding. Solved.  

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Try the stores even if the app says they are out. I was able to get some at Sam’s when the app showed they were out. I was making a run looking at Target, Jewel, Walmart, Walgreens and Sam’s.

I also tried Costco’s website several times a day. Friday I was able to order the two package limit. I checked today and they  are out. I had ordered once before from Costco and they allowed the order but canceled it the next day. I am buying this for my grandniece in Texas. Over 52% of the stores are out of stock. Illinois was slightly better. I can’t wait for late August when she will be one and off of formula.

We were able to buy about 4 months worth yesterday between three stores. Now that we have a good base, we will just grab a can here and there as they pop up.

Walmart at the next town north had about 12 cans of our formula (Similac 360 total care) Attached File