Lack of Baby Formula....and How to Personally Deal with it.

What would have been more useful is for the government to have released clear and carefully written instructions on how to prepare substitute infant formula at home during this temporary shortage – what ingredients are required, how they are to be combined, and why it's important to follow the recipe. (Obviously there are infants with special medical requirements who couldn't use the homemade formula but it would work in most situations.)

Mothers had used homemade formula for many, many years, without harming their little kids.

If you read all the headlines all but one have the same tone.....hysteria. Nothing helpful, just verbiage designed to frighten parents.

After I posted here yesterday, I happened to read a couple of articles in the NYT on this. I had no idea there were a) so many different types of baby formula, b) the formulas contained so many ingredients, and c) that some babies had to have their own special formula due to allergies and diseases. There were mothers of the c) group that were quite distressed - frantic, even - and spoke of how guilty they felt that they were not breast-feeding. So... I have to retract my glib and rather uncaring comments of yesterday. It apparently IS a big deal.