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"?
There's a lot of women who cannot breastfeed due to no fault of their own. It's insensitive to assume women are using formula because they're lazy.
This is an interesting point.
I do not know the biological reasons for why some women can, and some women cannot breastfeed. It does make one wonder if the inability to do so was a desired effect from Big Pharma and Big Food, and if they may have had a role to play.
If the vaccines can cause sterility in men and women, then anything is possible.
Part of it is that neonatal medicine has advanced. Babies that would die before reaching full term can now survive and thrive in NICU. But a premature baby often cannot nurse on his own, because he's too small and weak. In that instance formula saves his life.
Some don’t produce enough milk and need to supplement. Happened to my wife with a couple of our kids.
Nurse maids could be a thing again.
Definitely could be a result of chemicals and who knows what other exposures.
I was born in 1953 and my mother couldn't breast feed. She and my grandmother mixed a formula for me. I've never suffered any health issues other than having the flu once when I was 25. I've also only had one vaccine in my life which was the polio vaccine when I was 6.
There has been little or no discussion about this. Thanks for bringing it up.
Lots "choose" not to because they've been indoctrinated to believe it's "weird or gross"
Otherwise it's just the laziness "convenience" factor - which further perpetuates the consoomer dependency. Remember, they absolutely do not want an independent autonomous populace.
I have a half a dozen friends who desperately wanted to breastfeed and could not. Their body just would not make milk despite trying for days with a lactation expert. When the baby starts starving, you give it a bottle!
Very well could be. Although, if you look into the historical record, it's always been a problem for some. That's where wet nurses would be employed.
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This is what was happened to me with my son. He had latching issues with a serious tounge tie. By the time we figured out the problem, my supplies had plummeted and he was failing to thrive. He responded well to formula and was a happy baby from there on. My daughter had no issues with latching and she nursed for 15 months.
Yes, that happens. And when you end up bottle feeding, it's no big deal. My first kid nursed until she started teething and then I had to switch to a bottle. I just hate cleaning them is why I'm a bf proponent!🙂
Lots of guys on this thread probably have never held a baby much less had to feed one.
Maybe because you need to have some weight on your bones. If not, nature basically choses to save the Mom rather than the child with the hopes she will have more children in the future.
I can tell you that's bullshit from experience. Had my first as a 95 pound nineteen year old. That's when I discovered I could make a TON of milk. No problems there.
Some of these friends I have ain't slacking in the pound department at all!
Although this is physiologically true, the US doesn't exactly have a lot of starving adults...
I'm sure that happens, but there are also a lot of women who had to undergo caesarean and/or have premature NICU babies. A premature baby often doesn't have a mouth large enough to breastfeed and they often don't have the baby-fat to go a prolonged period of time without nursing. In that situation, mom has to pump which is no substitute for an infant, and often milk supply dries up. What should she do then? Let baby starve to death? Hire a wet nurse? Formula is often the answer, and it's often a very emotionally difficult decision for a woman to come to terms that she is unable to breastfeed.
Premature babies make up about 10% of the babies born in the US, which is very high for a developed nation. Probably because of high rates of obesity. 83% of mothers start out breastfeeding, but that number drops to 57% by 6 months. Why does this happen? Supplementing baby's diet with formula AT ALL will tell the boobs to stop producing so much milk. As the baby grows it needs more, not less. Going back to work and resorting to a pump can also cause the milk to dry up since skin to skin contact increases prolactin and oxytocin levels which is needed to make and release breastmilk.
If women were informed about these things maybe they would adjust their plans of returning suddenly back to work or supplementing at all with formula.
All babies should be fed breastmilk, but especially premature ones. It helps their cognitive development considerably.
Mothers also have the option of buying breastmilk.
https://www.onlythebreast.com/
It drops so much at 6 months because that's about the time that babies can start to eat baby food or mashed foods, so the baby is having a mix of breast milk and baby food. Not all babies start around then, but that is the average.
No one is arguing against breast milk. It's the best for baby. No one is arguing against educating women about the benefits of breast milk.
Some women just can't due to their circumstances. Either their own health prevents them from being able to breastfeed, baby's health prevents nursing, and/or the family financial situation. Paying for human breast milk is going to be way more expensive than formula.
Before formula existed, the option for these mothers was to let baby starve and die.
I assume nothing of the sort. I am saying that we are living in a Matrix instead of having normal, healthy families.
Infant mortality rate is much lower now than in years past. But many babies are born premature and unable to nurse, because they're too small and weak. Decades ago these babies would just die. Now they can survive and thrive, and part of that is formula.
I agree with this, I've watched friends marry and have kids and some of that stuff is just disgusting to me. In one case she was having her first kid and she was having anxiety and the doctors told them to have the baby early to which they did as well as get vaccinated and now they all are constantly sick. I can no longer accept this level of ignorance in friends. I can't watch them kill themselves.
Infant mortality rate is much lower because you're not factoring in abortion rates.
Thank you. I made a similar point and was also down-voted.
I downvoted you because you are missing the whole point of the post.
I did not miss the point of the post - I was responding to a comment within your post, which I agreed with. Had nothing to do with what you said as anyone with a lick of common sense knows that breastfeeding is best. Some moms have extenuating uncontrollable circumstances, however, that make that it hard do. In those situations, thank goodness for an alternative - and I would prefer in that case for the mom to home make formula, not rely on Gerber to do the job.