Many new parents are scrambling to find formula for their babies, and driving up demand at milk banks.
Many new parents are scrambling to find formula to feed their babies amid a shortage, and driving up demand for donated breast milk.
First, a nationwide shortage of powdered baby formula, followed by a major formula recall, have left store shelves bare and parents worried about their infants. "It is very stressful because you are worried about whether your child is going to be able to have the proper nutrition," said new mom Desara Earle Robbins.FDA: Abbott baby formula recall expanded to Similac PM after another report of illness"A lot of the large retailers, they are out of stock, even online. So that forces us to go into stores and you may find a can or two here and there," said Robbins.
"We have ready-to-feed in the NICU, and we use a lot of donor milk from the Mother's Milk Bank of Houston," said Tammy Sullivan, MSN, RNC-NIC, Manager of the NICU at Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital. "We also happen to be a donor depot, parents can bring milk here.""It is a worry, because we don’t want them diluting the formulas or something like that, trying to make the formula go further, because then we’ll see nutritional deficiencies," said Sullivan.
"The difficulty is our donors declined by 30% over 2021. So we’re now feeling that pain at a time of formula recalls. Because of the knowledge of what a difference human milk makes for babies who are fragile, we have a 10% increase in demand," said Kim Updegrove, Executive Director of"Every healthy lactating mother has the ability to be a supermom, to pump a little extra and save some lives. We’re asking them to contact us today," said Updegrove.
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