News · moment 10 of 20
Baby Formula Shortage and Breastfeeding vs. Bottle
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2 min
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Tim reads about the nationwide baby formula shortage, then he and Ben discuss whether breastfeeding versus formula-feeding affects infant health outcomes.
- Baby formula shortage described as a nationwide food crisis with 30% drop in availability at retail outlets.
- Tim jokes about articles suggesting infants are too reliant on formula and proposing intermittent fasting for babies.
- Tim was bottlefed while his co-host was breastfed; Tim notes breastfed kids seem just as messed up as bottlefed ones.
- Statistics show formula-fed or mixed-fed infants are 2.88 times more likely to develop gastrointestinal infections than exclusively breastfed infants.
- Not all women breastfeed due to practicality and physical pain from babies chewing on nipples.
- Tim asks whether the formula shortage would be solved entirely if everybody just started breastfeeding.
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