That is all.
EDIT: Boy, did this get lively. And we have a new term here: "Mom shaming."
Interesting how all these people interpret the question in the title their own way, one that has nothing to do with this simple question, nor its intent.
Is all the formula sold for babies whose mothers can't breastfeed? No. Has baby formula been around the 150,000 years that Homo sapiens has been around? No. There's a fundamental problem here.
We humans need to be free. Free from large corporations. Free from government. If babies are dependent on large corporations and "supply chains," there is something seriously wrong.
The globalists created a fake "women's rights" movement to get women out of the home into fake careers so they could control and tax them. It is at that point that so many children stopped being breastfed. For 150,000 years it was totally normal for mothers to breastfeed their babies, then suddenly not? Seriously question this.
So then a manufactured shortage of baby formula causes complete chaos.
You are being manipulated, folks.
Some mothers physically cannot breastfeed. Is the answer to that to make those mothers dependent on corporate supply chains? Isn't there a better way to handle this? Shouldn't this be something produced on a household or local level?
Lots of the discussion below sounds like a pack of Wokes. It is based on emotion, not logical thought. Playing victim is never the answer. Finding practical, local solutions not dependent on the globalists is.
Here is a quote from the comments: "It's pretty easy for a man or non-mother woman to talk about breasts." Why does this writer assume that's who is writing this post? And "Mom shaming"?
If this is in reference to the formula shortage, there are a great number of women who cannot breastfeed.
The meta has squarely shifted to the side where breastmilk is touted as superior, and it is, and it's accepted as fact. Understand the strain on those who cannot.
My son was in the NICU for 30 days. My wife's ability to breastfeed without the baby in near constant contact with her causes milk supply to plummet. It was very devastating to her.
At a glance online, I'm seeing 1 to 5 percent of women cannot breastfeed. That doesn't really seem to be the issue here. The issue is that our society, both as a whole and as individuals, are so disconnected from reality that we are not running normal families with normal practices. Out-of-control taxes and brainwashing about "careers" are part of the problem, but many many families have figured out how to deal with that.
I think the point OP was trying to make is more that we have plenty of formula for those who need it, but not enough for those that want it. It is most certainly just a convenience for the majority of people. But your points still stand, it shouldn't be happening either way.
A lot of women choose not to breastfeed, though, increasing demand for formula. I think that is the larger point.
Choose not to breast feed is another way of saying choose to work you know. Don’t pop off your opinion without any direct personal experience to help shape that opinion into something resembling reality
I would be interested in seeing how years of birth control affects breast milk production.
Amen Hallelujah. Well said. 👏Mom shaming someone because they do not breastfeed is not good for anyone. A lot of babies cannot latch because of the structure of their mouths. It can be a huge source of angst for the mother and thank goodness there are alternatives because the surgery to fix it is not always easy and finding a wet nurse in proximity is also not simple. I had based parents - my mom had eight kids and only nursed half because to take care of the others while nursing was taxing, so she made her own formula for the other half. She was an amazing person and I never would have shunned her for choosing not to nurse four of us.
They need to do tongue-tie checks in those cases. Even a very slight one can affect things and once it's easily remedied, nursing happens well.. source, personal experience.
It came off a lil femenazi-ish kek
Most definitely.
they shame wet nurses and shut down any human milk market (which has this specific, very practical use) My mother was a neonatal nurse and it was very common for them to hook mothers up with each other if some needed help feeding decades ago. and in my personal opinion, an organization with the name " Planned Parenthood " should be at the forefront of coordinating things like this for new families, instead of just being murder factories.
https://www.onlythebreast.com/
Ask around the people you know with babies. Likely you don’t know just how many women struggled because you never thought to ask the very people in your own life. I know I didn’t have a clue until I was knee deep in the baby game. In my small circle I would say it’s a third formula fed for mom to go back to work or for on the go convenience , a third breast fed because it worked and they knew it was best option, and a third formula fed because of medical complications (infections, low supply, baby intolerance, etc).
"great number" is a HUGE exaggeration, and although your NICU experience is tragic, it's also an giant outlier.
The vast majority of women don't end up with babies in the NICU and the vast majority of women can breast feed just fine.
They simply chose a career over their kids and dropped them off at the dontcare with bottles of fake milk.
I do believe it was OPs intention to touch upon the cultural factors that lead to opting for formula, versus physiological ones. Although before we jump to "choosing a career over their kids", we must first reconcile:
That is by far the larger elephant in the room, not the more visible, corporate climber Karen archetype of suburbia we as a demographic are more exposed to.
Completely agreed that the single mother situation is the elephant in the room. Whether you're a Karen corporate climber, which my office is FULL of, or a single mother, the root cause still points back to mothers in both cases.
Women control access to sex, and thereby control male behavior. If women are wanton whores, and throw their sex around freely, then they create, through their actions, men of low quality.
Men, in general, will take sex however they can get it. If women put sex behind strict rules of monogamy and commitment, then men will alter their behavior in order to have access to sex. Men will become monogamous and committed family men in order to reach the vagina grail.
If women flop over and go legs up for any swinging dong that passes by, then men will take the no-commitment sex that leads to single mothers. So both the corporate climbers and the single mothers are leading to the failure of western civilization.
Women, on their own, could almost completely fix western civilization through just a couple of smart decisions, starting with treating their vagina like the most precious gift they have rather than a cheap ride at the traveling carnival.
Don't know why you've been downvoted. This is 100% true.
So true. Like it. "Woman as victim" is as sexist as it gets.
And should we consider why so many homes are single mothers? After all if we are doing root cause analysis, shouldn't we?
Destruction of the family unit. Both due to financial and cultural factors.
All Clown goals. Do you not think the Great Awakening will impact this? Do you think "The Best is Yet to Come" will not address the 25% of children growing up with single moms?
If anons aren't thinking this big, then they don't fully grasp how encompassing Clown World is. How seeped into every single piece of Media we have consumed, our parents have consumed, and even our grandparents have consumed their entire lives.
Yep!
Mine tried, and did everything we were told but also couldn't produce.
I was never a formula proponent before, but when you literally can't make it...
My daughter just had her first baby, who was born with a double cleft lip and cleft palate. The baby cannot breast feed, and so my daughter is not producing much milk even though she pumps as much as she can. Her baby is dependent on formula to keep her healthy and allow her to grow large enough that she can have surgery to repair the cleft lip.