You should be correct about goat milk and people always had at least a few goats in any given village.
Baby Formula Shortage…?
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While I agree with this completely and I think ultimately this will have to happen, there will unfortunately be a painful transition period before people become more self reliant again. It looks like the transition period is starting now and I feel awful for those that are unprepared. Also- the prevalence of “food sensitivity issues” in infants and children today compared with kids of the past is super high and there are special formula brands out there for those situations. My speculation is GMOs and vaccines are contributing to all these special cases nowadays. There is going to have to be a whole shift in how we do things for sure.
I noticed this as well. On one hand, breastfeeding is just common sense- it’s natural and it’s the way God intended for babies to be fed. On the other hand, why does the mainstream push it to the point where you are made to feel lesser if you are unable to or can’t for whatever reason? As much as I think breastfeeding is great and would encourage every woman to at least try it, it can’t help but feel like it’s being pushed both by the media and regular people to be just another standard that you must meet as a woman or else you are somehow inferior or not good enough. It used to be beauty standards that made you feel that way although those have somewhat eased off since everyone promoted is ugly or trans now. There’s also a lot of other mothering trends designed to make women feel this way as well.
Since I mistrust everything that the mainstream pushes because they usually push inversions, I’ve noticed this discrepancy as well, and have been wondering why it exists or what it means. Dysgenics makes sense, unfortunately. I’ve also thought this in regards to this formula shortage. It also adds up that the babies with food sensitivities and allergies (as I mentioned in a post above) are going to suffer the most for this shortage. Healthy mothers will breast feed and their babies, if also healthy, will take the milk. If a mother can’t or won’t breast feed, then a healthy baby will take goats milk or some other random brand. It’s a baby who has a particular allergy or sensitivity that won’t get their needs met.
ETA since I have more to say on this- Formula has been the dominate method for feeding babies in the US for 60ish years now. With rare exceptions, our mothers and grandmothers did not breastfeed. “Big formula” marketed itself so well as to make generations of women become completely reliant on it. Now the rug is being pulled out and many women do not have the support and encouragement needed to breast feed. With my first, I was trying to breastfeed an infant, but I had never in my life seen it done by anyone else. My own mother was concerned I was starving him because her solution was to dump bottles down my throat when I was a baby. Easy and sure. The women who tend to succeed the most at breastfeeding are those who research, study, educate themselves on the topic, etc… it’s a personality type. I have it and most here do, too, but we are not the norm. When it comes to something as natural and necessary as feeding babies, most people are going to default to what they know or what their own mothers did. If you aren’t the type to do your research and read breastfeeding books, etc.. then you will be less successful. But that isn’t the way nature intended for us to be able to learn this skill.
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When industrialization happened women went to work in factories and their milk supplies started drying up, so synthetic formula started appearing on the market and doctors ended up backing it, rather reluctantly.
Also Nestle got in trouble for pushing formula in impoverished areas as superior to breastmilk (better than natural-- where have we heard that?), so most formula companies can't make any insane claims.
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I made a thread about this awhile ago, has a link to a video about the Nestle debacle (which most of us know about, just putting it here again)
Definitely agree.
As my husband and I say, any time both sides of the mainstream establishment (conservative and liberal) are pushing the same ideas, something's up.
Yea, I was one of those formula only fed babies too.
Unfortunately, most of the stuff I found while researching (forums and most books) just focused on making the women who can't do it feel guilty and inadequate, and pushing the "breast is best" slogan (and then I found a site called fed is best that focused on the starving babies of women who didn't make enough milk and it terrified me).
It wasn't until I came across the book I mentioned earlier in the thread that anyone mentioned the quality of the mom's diet. Based on logic alone I had the idea that the nutrients must be present in the woman's body in order to be passed to the baby, but the doctor and nurses who I saw for prenatal care that kept insisting on breastfeeding never once mentioned anything about my nutrition.
Just clarifying, I am certainly pro-breastfeeding, I just wish women were given accurate information about the importance of consuming a high nutrient diet during and after the preganancy and not just relying on the synthetic prenatal vitamins (which, incidentally, the nurses told me to stop taking as soon as the baby was born). I'm sure the women who had their babies get injured because of this would have liked to know it was a possibility and how they could prevent it. And women who underproduce or dry up prematurely don't need to be shamed and blamed because sometimes these things are out of our control.
Interesting article. It's really sad about the babies of the poor women that had to go into wet nursing. Things like that show that formula can be a blessing to some.
It was so refreshing to read an article that accurately refers to women as "women", not birthing people or such nonsense.
Why would they tell you to stop taking vitamins?
Good news everyone! There’s more than enough formula for the illegals crossing the southern border!
Thanks Biden!
Thanks Biden!
I wonder if this has anything to do with the shortages:
Apparently Gates and Zuckerberg, among others, invested $3.5 million in 2020 for creating artificial breastmilk produced from human mammary cells.
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Apparently Gates and Zuckerberg, among others, invested $3.5 million in 2020 for creating artificial breastmilk produced from human mammary cells.
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The only answer I can think of is my conspiracy theory, nothing else makes sense to me. I ignored them and continued taking them anyway.
To be clear, I'm not saying the individual nurses mean anyone harm -- it's what they have been told to say by higher ups, and when I asked why they just said I don't need them anymore. But they said to stop taking them, not that it was optional.
That hospital (and many others, but not all) was part of this Baby Friendly Initiative program and I think they get most of their guidelines, and literature, directly from them.
This bothers me.
I don't know if it makes me a big hypocrite, but I would have a huge problem feeding my child this, but not "traditional" formula if necessary. Something about bioengineering is just plain wrong to me. Even back when I was a dumb atheist I had a sense that tinkering with DNA at the molecular level is something you just don't do. Back then I wouldn't have referred to it as "playing God" but that's exactly what it is. And every time something is funded by Gates and claims to "fight climate change" you know they're looking out for our best interests - not.
In a way I have bioengineering to thank for me eventually coming to Christ because it was my horror at finding out what was in the food supply that led me down the conspiracy rabbit hole and eventually to God.
Infant mortality was also way higher, so a direct comparison is hard to make.
Did they mean to stop taking prenatals and start taking something else? That was one of the first things they asked me at my follow-up.
I was at a baby friendly hospital too and had a fairly good experience, although the lactation consultants were kind of annoying ("make your breast into a sandwich" WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN, why can't you just say "flatten") and every hour there's a different nurse saying "hi honey
we need to check your tear"I took regular multivitamins in my last pregnancy b/c they're half the price and have basically the same ingredients and the doctor was like "that's fine, you just need the folic acid."
Maybe. Create shortage --> here's the solution!
That could have been what they meant, but if so they sure had bad communication skills. I asked 'should I take a different one?' and they said no. But I still had a full bottle so I kept taking them, which was good because I was pregnant again before my daughter was weaned.
It was right after delivery, I didn't bother going to my follow up...
Lol, they probably have never gotten a good response from telling a woman to flatten her breast.I was at a baby friendly hospital too and had a fairly good experience, although the lactation consultants were kind of annoying ("make your breast into a sandwich" WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN, why can't you just say "flatten") and every hour there's a different nurse saying "hi honey
I took regular multivitamins in my last pregnancy b/c they're half the price and have basically the same ingredients and the doctor was like "that's fine, you just need the folic acid."
The only good thing I have to say about my experience at the baby friendly hospital was that at least they respected when I was feeding my daughter and came back later to do things like hearing test and other assessments instead of insisting it had to be done right now. Other than that, 0/5 stars do not recommend.
The other hospital was more woman friendly but kept making me unlatch my son because that's when it was convenient for the pediatrician to examine him. And they didn't want to let me feed him as he got his heel stick test or other blood draws but I put my foot down and they finally relented.
This is a horrible development in the story.
Below video is BIOMILQ's startup pitch (January 7, 2021).
CNN Business recently (May 3, 2022) wrote an article about BIOMILQ.
Lab-grown 'human milk' may be just three years away
Unrelated to BIOMILQ, but related to Bill Gates...back in February of 2020, he donated money to a Canadian university's breast milk research group.
University of Manitoba researcher granted $6.5M to study breast milk
Edit. The Baby Formula Shortage is a distraction to keep everyone's attention away from the real issue like the article below.
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Yeah, I just find it strange that they would say that. Then again, I had a pediatrician who thought my son had torticollis (he doesn't) because sometimes he holds his head to the side.
My grandma and great-grandma had a saying, "Go to the doctor, see what they have to say, tell them they're full of sh**, then treat yourself!" So I try to respect our familial traditions.
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That’s exactly what I was thinking. Add to that some vaccinated mother’s milk seems toxic… Gates will swoop in with his “miracle milk” and save all the starving babies. It’s all so predictable and tiresome.
Eta: It also makes me think this is another step in the destruction of the family. Removing women further yet from motherhood. All they need to perfect is the artificial womb.
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Oh boy- I would trust the Carnation canned evaporated milk before Gates and Zuckerberg created “Biomilq”. Well- this makes more sense now that I see this development has taken place. They have created zombie/robot milk to solve the current problem. The best part is that the women who donated tissues and cells to this study received a Target gift card. Yeah—- I’m speechless all around right now. I can’t even…..
Whenever my elderly mother goes to a doctor or hospital due to a serious illness, she will call them out - i.e., "You sucks at your job; you don't know what you are doing/talking about." - if they can't figure out why she's sick (i.e., extreme stomach pains).My grandma and great-grandma had a saying, "Go to the doctor, see what they have to say, tell them they're full of sh**, then treat yourself!" So I try to respect our familial traditions.
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Thank you for the biological material, here's $5 to Dunkin'