Don’t Make Your Own Formula
How parents should, and should not, manage the shortage
by Emily Oster
May 17, 2022
3 minutes
By the time they are six months old, 75 percent of babies in the U.S. use formula. And for many babies under 1, formula is the primary or exclusive source of nutrition—which is why the baby-formula shortage is so frightening to many parents. The for the shortage include the general supply-chain issues plaguing many sectors of the economy and the shutdown of a major formula plant earlier this year due
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