Timely way. the first thing is we do have to be working together as communities to try to make sure get the formula where it needs to be for families. we don t want babies to go without nutrition. i think you do point out it is really worth emphasizing there are risks to babies of alternate feeding methods, diluting formula, that could be immediate consequences to that baby and could get quite ill or having seizures or babies will suffer death from that. the long-term consequences of suffering from nutrition as well. i think it is an important point that you bring up and the most important thing for us is to work together and get the formula they need and we do ask families not to horde formula. it is important to plan in
Homemade infant formula recipes, diluting formula or introducing cow s milk too early. all of those could have nutritional implications the if infant. when we think of how parents can really react to this, you know, we ve received assurances from manufacturers that they re going to ramp up production but that has not yet translated to increased stock on the shelf. so while we re optimistic this may get better in the future, right now we re encouraging families to call ahead to their store to really save the trip because we ve heard from far too many moms that have gone to five or six stores and still come up empty handed. are you hearing from parents who have flat out not been able to find formula? meaning yeah, it is quite scary. they re totally out? and you know, that s why it s a community wide effort here because we ve got every stake holder at the local level working on this. the retailers have been really helpful in guiding this process as well as, you know, the food ba