19-05-2022, 06:01 AM
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USA : Parents desperate as baby formula shortage worsens
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19-05-2022, 06:06 AM
(14-05-2022, 02:03 PM)WhatDoYouThink? Wrote: soybean powder, rice powder, ... so many substitutes, why must stick with milk powder
They are not like China will buy the formulated from all over the world.
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19-05-2022, 07:41 AM
20-05-2022, 09:47 AM
天天硬事2003期——01 美国拜登前往日韩推销IPEF框架其目的是为了围堵与限制中国的发展 02 美国因婴儿配方奶粉缺乏启动《国防生产法》要求企业优先供给奶粉
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20-05-2022, 02:44 PM
‘The Five’ react to baby formula shortage
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21-05-2022, 11:58 AM
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21-05-2022, 12:27 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/well/...rtage.html
Amid a Worsening Formula Shortage, Mothers Are Asked: ‘Why Not Breastfeed?’
The current crisis has exacerbated an already emotionally charged health care issue in the U.S.
Before having her third child last month, Joelyz Lugo had planned to breastfeed, but her daughter’s difficult birth derailed such plans. While in the neonatal intensive care unit, her baby needed to be fed formula, and when the pair finally tried breastfeeding, the baby struggled to latch.
One month later, with a baby formula shortage making it all but impossible for Ms. Lugo to give up breastfeeding, she has settled into a grueling routine. Every three hours, she hooks herself up to a breast pump to try and boost production, but her milk supply remains low. Ms. Lugo gets less than an ounce of breast milk per pumping session — a fraction of what her daughter needs.
Between breastfeeding and pumping and searching stores around her home in New Britain, Conn., in search of formula, she spends hours every day simply trying to ensure her baby has enough to eat.
“I have been crying about it because I’m trying my best, and nothing is working,” said Ms. Lugo, 31, who in two weeks is committed to returning to her job as an assistant kindergarten teacher after six weeks of parental leave. “When am I going to pump then?”
The worsening nationwide formula shortage has exacerbated an already fraught health care issue in the United States. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, babies should be breastfed until they are 1 or older, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that breast milk is the best source of nutrition in those early months. But the medical and economic realities of new parenthood in America can make that one-year finish line an impossible goal for many mothers. By six months, the majority of new mothers give their babies some formula, for reasons ranging from problems with latching and milk supply to the demands of work outside the home.
Now the formula shortage is forcing many new mothers to push themselves harder to breastfeed, even looking for ways to start again after having stopped — a difficult, if not impossible, pursuit since breasts stop producing milk soon after a baby stops feeding from them.
And along with the physical demands are emotional ones. Mothers who already may have been beating themselves up for no longer breastfeeding — an activity deeply bound together with the maternal ideal — now have the added burden of fearing that their child won’t get enough nutrition. They are also afraid of being judged.
“I’ve felt a lot of guilt, and I’ve felt a lot of anxiety that he’s not going to get what he needs,” said Sarah Roy, 33, a stay-at-home parent who cannot breastfeed her 5-month-old son because she takes a daily chemotherapy treatment for leukemia that would be dangerous for her baby. “I have blamed myself. You just think, ‘If I could, if I could, if I could,’ but it’s just kind of out of your hands. A lot of people don’t understand that.”
Ms. Lugo said she has tired of reading comments online that tell mothers just to breastfeed. “It’s easy to say, ‘Breastfeed,’ but it’s not easy to go through with it,” she said.
In recent years, public health campaigns to educate parents about the importance of breastfeeding have been successful: Eighty-four percent of babies start out being breastfed, up from 58 percent in the mid-1990s. Hundreds of “baby-friendly” hospitals nationwide employ strategies aimed at promoting breastfeeding, by encouraging mothers and babies to have uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact right after delivery and not allowing formula, except in cases of medical need.
In many ways, society has also become more accommodating of breastfeeding with lactation rooms in some offices, airports and other public settings.
But many parents cannot or do not breastfeed. Though some adoptive or foster parents do induce lactation — a process that requires the use of hormone-mimicking drugs — many do not. Mothers also face significant physical challenges, from cracked and bleeding nipples to clogged ducts and low milk supply. Mastitis, when breast tissue becomes infected, affects anywhere between 2 and 20 percent of breastfeeding moms.
There are also mental health challenges. Research shows that women who have painful early breastfeeding experiences are more likely than others to suffer postpartum depression.
“I can’t tell you how many women walk through our doors and say, ‘It started with breastfeeding,’” said Paige Bellenbaum, founding director of The Motherhood Center, of the mothers who come to her New York City-based perinatal mood disorder treatment facility.
As if that isn’t enough, there is now a nationwide formula shortage, driven by supply chain problems and exacerbated by the closure of a major production plant in February and the recall of select infant formulas sold under the Similac, Alimentum and EleCare brands. Currently, more than 40 percent of baby formulas are out of stock, and President Biden has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reports of price gouging.
Ms. Roy’s son has gastroesophageal reflux disease that requires him to be on a specialized amino-acid based formula, and it has frequently been out of stock at stores near her home in Southington, Conn. Without it, her baby cries, vomits and twists his body in pain.
Ms. Roy has been heartened by the way families have come together during the formula shortage, starting local Facebook groups to share cans of formula and time-stamped photos of what they see on store shelves. But she finds it “scary” that a day might come when she would be unable to find any formula for her son — and unable to offer her son breast milk.
As the shortage worsens, other mothers who cannot breastfeed say they feel as though they just need to try harder. Jane Varghese Williams, 27, has felt guilt over not breastfeeding her son, who has a feeding disability, since he was born last November.
“It definitely makes me feel like an inadequate mom, especially because before I had my son, I thought I would breastfeed for at least the first year,” said Ms. Williams, who is a stay-at-home parent in Atlanta. “I was in denial that he couldn’t breastfeed, and he ended up losing 10 ounces from his birth weight. That was the wake-up call we needed to get him on formula.”
But finding her son’s preferred formula has been difficult, and having to switch between various brands makes him fussy and uncomfortable, the combination of which has renewed pressure on her to find a way to breastfeed.
“I have considered trying to relactate,” said Ms. Williams, referring to the difficult process of trying to restart breastfeeding after it has been stopped for weeks or months.
Caitlin Joyce, 22, is also researching relactation after spending hours every week searching for formula. Last week, she and her mother drove for two hours up and down the South Shore of Massachusetts, scouring every Target, Walmart or supermarket they saw along the way — “and they didn’t have anything,” Ms. Joyce said. Though she has not breastfed her baby in six months, she has been searching online moms’ groups for tips on how to restart milk production.
Dr. Casey Rosen-Carole, director of the breastfeeding and lactation medicine program at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said the physiology of breastfeeding “is not especially resilient, in that once it’s over it’s very hard to build it back.” The prospect that women may be attempting to relactate in response to the formula crisis concerns her, she said, because mothers could compound stress by pushing their bodies to do something that is difficult, if not impossible.
Dr. Alison Stuebe, an OB-GYN and distinguished scholar in infant and young child feeding with the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, said the idea that every woman can produce all of the breast milk her baby needs “is not predicated on reality. Every person can’t make all the insulin they need. That’s why there’s a disease called type 1 diabetes — and we don’t say, ‘Well, if you just tried harder, you wouldn’t need that medicine.’”
Staring down the prospect of being without formula, some mothers are mulling alternate ways to feed their babies. When her daughter was born, Zumely Ebanks, 23, had to be separated from her because of medical issues and could not breastfeed. Her baby got used to formula, she said, and at 3 months old has not breastfed at all. Ms. Ebanks, who lives with her mother and baby in Houston, called the shortage “alarming.” “If there isn’t any formula, I would not know what to do,” she said.
So far, she has been able to find her preferred formula at her local H-E-B grocery store, but if that changes she plans to turn to “previous traditions,” like rice water and atole, a corn-based drink. Health experts have warned parents against resorting to homemade baby formula, but women are worried they may have no other options.
Amid a Worsening Formula Shortage, Mothers Are Asked: ‘Why Not Breastfeed?’
The current crisis has exacerbated an already emotionally charged health care issue in the U.S.
Before having her third child last month, Joelyz Lugo had planned to breastfeed, but her daughter’s difficult birth derailed such plans. While in the neonatal intensive care unit, her baby needed to be fed formula, and when the pair finally tried breastfeeding, the baby struggled to latch.
One month later, with a baby formula shortage making it all but impossible for Ms. Lugo to give up breastfeeding, she has settled into a grueling routine. Every three hours, she hooks herself up to a breast pump to try and boost production, but her milk supply remains low. Ms. Lugo gets less than an ounce of breast milk per pumping session — a fraction of what her daughter needs.
Between breastfeeding and pumping and searching stores around her home in New Britain, Conn., in search of formula, she spends hours every day simply trying to ensure her baby has enough to eat.
“I have been crying about it because I’m trying my best, and nothing is working,” said Ms. Lugo, 31, who in two weeks is committed to returning to her job as an assistant kindergarten teacher after six weeks of parental leave. “When am I going to pump then?”
The worsening nationwide formula shortage has exacerbated an already fraught health care issue in the United States. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, babies should be breastfed until they are 1 or older, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that breast milk is the best source of nutrition in those early months. But the medical and economic realities of new parenthood in America can make that one-year finish line an impossible goal for many mothers. By six months, the majority of new mothers give their babies some formula, for reasons ranging from problems with latching and milk supply to the demands of work outside the home.
Now the formula shortage is forcing many new mothers to push themselves harder to breastfeed, even looking for ways to start again after having stopped — a difficult, if not impossible, pursuit since breasts stop producing milk soon after a baby stops feeding from them.
And along with the physical demands are emotional ones. Mothers who already may have been beating themselves up for no longer breastfeeding — an activity deeply bound together with the maternal ideal — now have the added burden of fearing that their child won’t get enough nutrition. They are also afraid of being judged.
“I’ve felt a lot of guilt, and I’ve felt a lot of anxiety that he’s not going to get what he needs,” said Sarah Roy, 33, a stay-at-home parent who cannot breastfeed her 5-month-old son because she takes a daily chemotherapy treatment for leukemia that would be dangerous for her baby. “I have blamed myself. You just think, ‘If I could, if I could, if I could,’ but it’s just kind of out of your hands. A lot of people don’t understand that.”
Ms. Lugo said she has tired of reading comments online that tell mothers just to breastfeed. “It’s easy to say, ‘Breastfeed,’ but it’s not easy to go through with it,” she said.
In recent years, public health campaigns to educate parents about the importance of breastfeeding have been successful: Eighty-four percent of babies start out being breastfed, up from 58 percent in the mid-1990s. Hundreds of “baby-friendly” hospitals nationwide employ strategies aimed at promoting breastfeeding, by encouraging mothers and babies to have uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact right after delivery and not allowing formula, except in cases of medical need.
In many ways, society has also become more accommodating of breastfeeding with lactation rooms in some offices, airports and other public settings.
But many parents cannot or do not breastfeed. Though some adoptive or foster parents do induce lactation — a process that requires the use of hormone-mimicking drugs — many do not. Mothers also face significant physical challenges, from cracked and bleeding nipples to clogged ducts and low milk supply. Mastitis, when breast tissue becomes infected, affects anywhere between 2 and 20 percent of breastfeeding moms.
There are also mental health challenges. Research shows that women who have painful early breastfeeding experiences are more likely than others to suffer postpartum depression.
“I can’t tell you how many women walk through our doors and say, ‘It started with breastfeeding,’” said Paige Bellenbaum, founding director of The Motherhood Center, of the mothers who come to her New York City-based perinatal mood disorder treatment facility.
As if that isn’t enough, there is now a nationwide formula shortage, driven by supply chain problems and exacerbated by the closure of a major production plant in February and the recall of select infant formulas sold under the Similac, Alimentum and EleCare brands. Currently, more than 40 percent of baby formulas are out of stock, and President Biden has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reports of price gouging.
Ms. Roy’s son has gastroesophageal reflux disease that requires him to be on a specialized amino-acid based formula, and it has frequently been out of stock at stores near her home in Southington, Conn. Without it, her baby cries, vomits and twists his body in pain.
Ms. Roy has been heartened by the way families have come together during the formula shortage, starting local Facebook groups to share cans of formula and time-stamped photos of what they see on store shelves. But she finds it “scary” that a day might come when she would be unable to find any formula for her son — and unable to offer her son breast milk.
As the shortage worsens, other mothers who cannot breastfeed say they feel as though they just need to try harder. Jane Varghese Williams, 27, has felt guilt over not breastfeeding her son, who has a feeding disability, since he was born last November.
“It definitely makes me feel like an inadequate mom, especially because before I had my son, I thought I would breastfeed for at least the first year,” said Ms. Williams, who is a stay-at-home parent in Atlanta. “I was in denial that he couldn’t breastfeed, and he ended up losing 10 ounces from his birth weight. That was the wake-up call we needed to get him on formula.”
But finding her son’s preferred formula has been difficult, and having to switch between various brands makes him fussy and uncomfortable, the combination of which has renewed pressure on her to find a way to breastfeed.
“I have considered trying to relactate,” said Ms. Williams, referring to the difficult process of trying to restart breastfeeding after it has been stopped for weeks or months.
Caitlin Joyce, 22, is also researching relactation after spending hours every week searching for formula. Last week, she and her mother drove for two hours up and down the South Shore of Massachusetts, scouring every Target, Walmart or supermarket they saw along the way — “and they didn’t have anything,” Ms. Joyce said. Though she has not breastfed her baby in six months, she has been searching online moms’ groups for tips on how to restart milk production.
Dr. Casey Rosen-Carole, director of the breastfeeding and lactation medicine program at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said the physiology of breastfeeding “is not especially resilient, in that once it’s over it’s very hard to build it back.” The prospect that women may be attempting to relactate in response to the formula crisis concerns her, she said, because mothers could compound stress by pushing their bodies to do something that is difficult, if not impossible.
Dr. Alison Stuebe, an OB-GYN and distinguished scholar in infant and young child feeding with the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, said the idea that every woman can produce all of the breast milk her baby needs “is not predicated on reality. Every person can’t make all the insulin they need. That’s why there’s a disease called type 1 diabetes — and we don’t say, ‘Well, if you just tried harder, you wouldn’t need that medicine.’”
Staring down the prospect of being without formula, some mothers are mulling alternate ways to feed their babies. When her daughter was born, Zumely Ebanks, 23, had to be separated from her because of medical issues and could not breastfeed. Her baby got used to formula, she said, and at 3 months old has not breastfed at all. Ms. Ebanks, who lives with her mother and baby in Houston, called the shortage “alarming.” “If there isn’t any formula, I would not know what to do,” she said.
So far, she has been able to find her preferred formula at her local H-E-B grocery store, but if that changes she plans to turn to “previous traditions,” like rice water and atole, a corn-based drink. Health experts have warned parents against resorting to homemade baby formula, but women are worried they may have no other options.
21-05-2022, 12:37 PM
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61524134
Formula milk: Online groups hunt for baby milk during US shortage
Parents in the US are using social media to try to track down infant formula milk - and unsafe alternatives - during a shortage that's affecting North America.
This week President Joe Biden called in the military to help distribute supplies. The situation is a result of a combination of global supply chain issues, and one of the leading US manufacturers having to shut down its factory following contamination.
Rebecca Romo Teague, a radio presenter in Cape Cod, set up a Facebook group for her local community where parents can upload photos of the baby aisles in supermarkets they visit, so others can see - in real time - where there are supplies.
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Formula milk: Online groups hunt for baby milk during US shortage
Parents in the US are using social media to try to track down infant formula milk - and unsafe alternatives - during a shortage that's affecting North America.
This week President Joe Biden called in the military to help distribute supplies. The situation is a result of a combination of global supply chain issues, and one of the leading US manufacturers having to shut down its factory following contamination.
Rebecca Romo Teague, a radio presenter in Cape Cod, set up a Facebook group for her local community where parents can upload photos of the baby aisles in supermarkets they visit, so others can see - in real time - where there are supplies.
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25-05-2022, 12:06 AM
美国奶粉荒一罐难求！ 纽约市进入紧急状态 | 八点最热报 24/05/2022
13-06-2022, 06:43 PM
https://www.businessinsider.com/fda-inve...ort-2022-6
FDA investigated up to nine infant deaths linked to baby formula, documents show: report
The Food and Drug Administration has investigated reports that up to nine infants died after consuming baby formula made by Abbott Nutrition at its Michigan factory – seven more than had previously been known, new documents indicated.
FDA investigated up to nine infant deaths linked to baby formula, documents show: report
The Food and Drug Administration has investigated reports that up to nine infants died after consuming baby formula made by Abbott Nutrition at its Michigan factory – seven more than had previously been known, new documents indicated.
13-06-2022, 08:26 PM
因食用美国密歇根州雅培实验室工厂生产的婴儿配方奶粉而死亡的儿童上升至9人。
一份基于检举人的报告称，美国雅培实验室和联邦监管机构于2021年初被警告在密歇根州斯特吉斯的一家食品制造厂存在潜在问题，大约一年前，一次污染事件迫使工厂关闭，并最终导致美国全国婴儿配方奶粉短缺。
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一份基于检举人的报告称，美国雅培实验室和联邦监管机构于2021年初被警告在密歇根州斯特吉斯的一家食品制造厂存在潜在问题，大约一年前，一次污染事件迫使工厂关闭，并最终导致美国全国婴儿配方奶粉短缺。
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14-06-2022, 12:56 PM
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06...g-j13.html
Seven more children died after consuming baby formula produced at contaminated Abbott Labs factory in Michigan
According to newly released documents, nine children have died since 2021 after consuming powdered baby formula produced by Abbott Labs at its pediatric nutritionals factory in Sturgis, Michigan, seven more than had been previously acknowledged by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The document also revealed that consumers submitted to the FDA 25 complaints that were categorized as “life-threatening illness/injury” and 80 instances of “non-life-threatening illness/injury.”
The existence of the documents was reported in the Washington Post on Friday. The Post said that the FDA confirmed that it had received seven additional reports of children dying or being made sick after they drank formula made at the Sturgis factory.
Previously, the government regulatory agency and Abbott Labs had only revealed that four children became ill and two died from bacterial infections beginning in September 2021, and all of whom had consumed baby formula made at the Sturgis facility.
Seven more children died after consuming baby formula produced at contaminated Abbott Labs factory in Michigan
According to newly released documents, nine children have died since 2021 after consuming powdered baby formula produced by Abbott Labs at its pediatric nutritionals factory in Sturgis, Michigan, seven more than had been previously acknowledged by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The document also revealed that consumers submitted to the FDA 25 complaints that were categorized as “life-threatening illness/injury” and 80 instances of “non-life-threatening illness/injury.”
The existence of the documents was reported in the Washington Post on Friday. The Post said that the FDA confirmed that it had received seven additional reports of children dying or being made sick after they drank formula made at the Sturgis factory.
Previously, the government regulatory agency and Abbott Labs had only revealed that four children became ill and two died from bacterial infections beginning in September 2021, and all of whom had consumed baby formula made at the Sturgis facility.
14-06-2022, 01:04 PM
when such incidents happen in china, the entire gang of flgdogs sure 倾巢而出
and kbkp nonstop.
and kbkp nonstop.
14-06-2022, 01:57 PM
Not sure why this guy spent so much time spreading this news about baby formula problem in the US whereas spending zero time talking about the baby powder happening in China.
The US baby formula problem was caused by bacteria infection but the baby powder in China was caused by “黑心伤人”。 The former is the act of negligent and the latter was a criminal event.
In the 2008 "黑心奶粉“ event, 290,000 babies sicked and 52,000 hospitalised. There was scattered report of baby dead but this was never pick up by the media which is not surprised.
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E5%B9...B%E4%BB%B6
https://www.asianews.it/news-zh/%E5%8F%8...14155.html
After 17 years later, the same scandle came back to haunt the PRC people.
https://www.cincainews.com/news/world/20...al/1866572
The PRC people already lost faith and confidence about the Chinese made baby powder
http://finance.sina.com.cn/zl/china/2014...0049.shtml
The US baby formula problem was caused by bacteria infection but the baby powder in China was caused by “黑心伤人”。 The former is the act of negligent and the latter was a criminal event.
In the 2008 "黑心奶粉“ event, 290,000 babies sicked and 52,000 hospitalised. There was scattered report of baby dead but this was never pick up by the media which is not surprised.
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E5%B9...B%E4%BB%B6
https://www.asianews.it/news-zh/%E5%8F%8...14155.html
After 17 years later, the same scandle came back to haunt the PRC people.
https://www.cincainews.com/news/world/20...al/1866572
The PRC people already lost faith and confidence about the Chinese made baby powder
http://finance.sina.com.cn/zl/china/2014...0049.shtml
14-06-2022, 02:08 PM
teaserteam is using very old news to smear China's milk industry!
China's latest situation :
https://www.foodtalks.cn/news/14367
国产奶粉逆袭：新国货背后的新消费力量
市场规模高达千亿的中国奶粉市场，一直是全球乳业企业的竞争焦点，国产奶粉品牌与外国奶粉品牌较量多年胜负难分。新国潮趋势下，国产奶粉品牌补短板锻长板，国产奶粉受到越来越多消费者欢迎。
近几年，虽然国产奶粉品牌竞争力与日俱增，占有率不断创新高
https://news.sina.com.cn/o/2021-06-09/do...cre=tianyi&mod=pctech&loc=16&r=0&rfunc=69&tj=cxvertical_pc_tech&tr=12
飞鹤奶粉领跑 市场占有率冲破19% 国货扛旗崛起
聚焦婴幼儿奶粉行业，历经十年浴火淬炼，以飞鹤为代表的国产奶粉迎来集体振兴，一场国产品牌的价值共振正在重塑市场格局。2019年，国产奶粉市场份额首次重回60%，中国奶粉重划实力经纬线。
聚焦中国飞鹤，更是以爆发式增长成为这场奶粉“国货运动”的扛旗者。截至2021年4月，飞鹤奶粉市场占有率进一步提升至19.0%。今年4月，经过国际权威调研机构弗若斯特沙利文认证，2020年飞鹤奶粉取得了北京婴幼儿配方奶粉市场零售销售额第一的重要成绩，“北京市场销售第一”的佳绩，进一步提振了中国消费者对于国产奶粉的消费信心。
China's latest situation :
https://www.foodtalks.cn/news/14367
国产奶粉逆袭：新国货背后的新消费力量
市场规模高达千亿的中国奶粉市场，一直是全球乳业企业的竞争焦点，国产奶粉品牌与外国奶粉品牌较量多年胜负难分。新国潮趋势下，国产奶粉品牌补短板锻长板，国产奶粉受到越来越多消费者欢迎。
近几年，虽然国产奶粉品牌竞争力与日俱增，占有率不断创新高
https://news.sina.com.cn/o/2021-06-09/do...cre=tianyi&mod=pctech&loc=16&r=0&rfunc=69&tj=cxvertical_pc_tech&tr=12
飞鹤奶粉领跑 市场占有率冲破19% 国货扛旗崛起
聚焦婴幼儿奶粉行业，历经十年浴火淬炼，以飞鹤为代表的国产奶粉迎来集体振兴，一场国产品牌的价值共振正在重塑市场格局。2019年，国产奶粉市场份额首次重回60%，中国奶粉重划实力经纬线。
聚焦中国飞鹤，更是以爆发式增长成为这场奶粉“国货运动”的扛旗者。截至2021年4月，飞鹤奶粉市场占有率进一步提升至19.0%。今年4月，经过国际权威调研机构弗若斯特沙利文认证，2020年飞鹤奶粉取得了北京婴幼儿配方奶粉市场零售销售额第一的重要成绩，“北京市场销售第一”的佳绩，进一步提振了中国消费者对于国产奶粉的消费信心。
14-06-2022, 02:15 PM
(21-05-2022, 12:27 PM)cityhantam Wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/well/...rtage.html
Amid a Worsening Formula Shortage, Mothers Are Asked: ‘Why Not Breastfeed?’
The current crisis has exacerbated an already emotionally charged health care issue in the U.S.
Before having her third child last month, Joelyz Lugo had planned to breastfeed, but her daughter’s difficult birth derailed such plans. While in the neonatal intensive care unit, her baby needed to be fed formula, and when the pair finally tried breastfeeding, the baby struggled to latch.
One month later, with a baby formula shortage making it all but impossible for Ms. Lugo to give up breastfeeding, she has settled into a grueling routine. Every three hours, she hooks herself up to a breast pump to try and boost production, but her milk supply remains low. Ms. Lugo gets less than an ounce of breast milk per pumping session — a fraction of what her daughter needs.
Between breastfeeding and pumping and searching stores around her home in New Britain, Conn., in search of formula, she spends hours every day simply trying to ensure her baby has enough to eat.
“I have been crying about it because I’m trying my best, and nothing is working,” said Ms. Lugo, 31, who in two weeks is committed to returning to her job as an assistant kindergarten teacher after six weeks of parental leave. “When am I going to pump then?”
The worsening nationwide formula shortage has exacerbated an already fraught health care issue in the United States. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, babies should be breastfed until they are 1 or older, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that breast milk is the best source of nutrition in those early months. But the medical and economic realities of new parenthood in America can make that one-year finish line an impossible goal for many mothers. By six months, the majority of new mothers give their babies some formula, for reasons ranging from problems with latching and milk supply to the demands of work outside the home.
Now the formula shortage is forcing many new mothers to push themselves harder to breastfeed, even looking for ways to start again after having stopped — a difficult, if not impossible, pursuit since breasts stop producing milk soon after a baby stops feeding from them.
And along with the physical demands are emotional ones. Mothers who already may have been beating themselves up for no longer breastfeeding — an activity deeply bound together with the maternal ideal — now have the added burden of fearing that their child won’t get enough nutrition. They are also afraid of being judged.
“I’ve felt a lot of guilt, and I’ve felt a lot of anxiety that he’s not going to get what he needs,” said Sarah Roy, 33, a stay-at-home parent who cannot breastfeed her 5-month-old son because she takes a daily chemotherapy treatment for leukemia that would be dangerous for her baby. “I have blamed myself. You just think, ‘If I could, if I could, if I could,’ but it’s just kind of out of your hands. A lot of people don’t understand that.”
Ms. Lugo said she has tired of reading comments online that tell mothers just to breastfeed. “It’s easy to say, ‘Breastfeed,’ but it’s not easy to go through with it,” she said.
In recent years, public health campaigns to educate parents about the importance of breastfeeding have been successful: Eighty-four percent of babies start out being breastfed, up from 58 percent in the mid-1990s. Hundreds of “baby-friendly” hospitals nationwide employ strategies aimed at promoting breastfeeding, by encouraging mothers and babies to have uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact right after delivery and not allowing formula, except in cases of medical need.
In many ways, society has also become more accommodating of breastfeeding with lactation rooms in some offices, airports and other public settings.
But many parents cannot or do not breastfeed. Though some adoptive or foster parents do induce lactation — a process that requires the use of hormone-mimicking drugs — many do not. Mothers also face significant physical challenges, from cracked and bleeding nipples to clogged ducts and low milk supply. Mastitis, when breast tissue becomes infected, affects anywhere between 2 and 20 percent of breastfeeding moms.
There are also mental health challenges. Research shows that women who have painful early breastfeeding experiences are more likely than others to suffer postpartum depression.
“I can’t tell you how many women walk through our doors and say, ‘It started with breastfeeding,’” said Paige Bellenbaum, founding director of The Motherhood Center, of the mothers who come to her New York City-based perinatal mood disorder treatment facility.
As if that isn’t enough, there is now a nationwide formula shortage, driven by supply chain problems and exacerbated by the closure of a major production plant in February and the recall of select infant formulas sold under the Similac, Alimentum and EleCare brands. Currently, more than 40 percent of baby formulas are out of stock, and President Biden has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reports of price gouging.
Ms. Roy’s son has gastroesophageal reflux disease that requires him to be on a specialized amino-acid based formula, and it has frequently been out of stock at stores near her home in Southington, Conn. Without it, her baby cries, vomits and twists his body in pain.
Ms. Roy has been heartened by the way families have come together during the formula shortage, starting local Facebook groups to share cans of formula and time-stamped photos of what they see on store shelves. But she finds it “scary” that a day might come when she would be unable to find any formula for her son — and unable to offer her son breast milk.
As the shortage worsens, other mothers who cannot breastfeed say they feel as though they just need to try harder. Jane Varghese Williams, 27, has felt guilt over not breastfeeding her son, who has a feeding disability, since he was born last November.
“It definitely makes me feel like an inadequate mom, especially because before I had my son, I thought I would breastfeed for at least the first year,” said Ms. Williams, who is a stay-at-home parent in Atlanta. “I was in denial that he couldn’t breastfeed, and he ended up losing 10 ounces from his birth weight. That was the wake-up call we needed to get him on formula.”
But finding her son’s preferred formula has been difficult, and having to switch between various brands makes him fussy and uncomfortable, the combination of which has renewed pressure on her to find a way to breastfeed.
“I have considered trying to relactate,” said Ms. Williams, referring to the difficult process of trying to restart breastfeeding after it has been stopped for weeks or months.
Caitlin Joyce, 22, is also researching relactation after spending hours every week searching for formula. Last week, she and her mother drove for two hours up and down the South Shore of Massachusetts, scouring every Target, Walmart or supermarket they saw along the way — “and they didn’t have anything,” Ms. Joyce said. Though she has not breastfed her baby in six months, she has been searching online moms’ groups for tips on how to restart milk production.
Dr. Casey Rosen-Carole, director of the breastfeeding and lactation medicine program at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said the physiology of breastfeeding “is not especially resilient, in that once it’s over it’s very hard to build it back.” The prospect that women may be attempting to relactate in response to the formula crisis concerns her, she said, because mothers could compound stress by pushing their bodies to do something that is difficult, if not impossible.
Dr. Alison Stuebe, an OB-GYN and distinguished scholar in infant and young child feeding with the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, said the idea that every woman can produce all of the breast milk her baby needs “is not predicated on reality. Every person can’t make all the insulin they need. That’s why there’s a disease called type 1 diabetes — and we don’t say, ‘Well, if you just tried harder, you wouldn’t need that medicine.’”
Staring down the prospect of being without formula, some mothers are mulling alternate ways to feed their babies. When her daughter was born, Zumely Ebanks, 23, had to be separated from her because of medical issues and could not breastfeed. Her baby got used to formula, she said, and at 3 months old has not breastfed at all. Ms. Ebanks, who lives with her mother and baby in Houston, called the shortage “alarming.” “If there isn’t any formula, I would not know what to do,” she said.
So far, she has been able to find her preferred formula at her local H-E-B grocery store, but if that changes she plans to turn to “previous traditions,” like rice water and atole, a corn-based drink. Health experts have warned parents against resorting to homemade baby formula, but women are worried they may have no other options.
Are they selling breast milk nowadays? Just squeeze from women's breasts then sell directly lah! You want or not leh?
14-06-2022, 02:23 PM
(14-06-2022, 02:15 PM)cheekopekman Wrote: Are they selling breast milk nowadays? Just squeeze from women's breasts then sell directly lah! You want or not leh?
u think any woman also has breast milk? Some after give birth not a single drop of milk.
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(14-06-2022, 02:26 PM)cheekopekman Wrote: Use your tongue and fingers lah!
U mean use them can produce milk?
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