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"?
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...
They might be nutritionally starving though, depending on what they are ingesting.