gillian: thanks very much, john. john: pennsylvania now bring in stephanie harkin, one of the millions of parents struggling to find formula, with her 5-year-old son hudson with her. tell us about your situation, what type of formula hudson is drinking and the problems you are having trying to find it. hudson was born in november and even since november, you know, i started to see kind of a pullback on what we saw on the shelves. he s on a special formula, nutramigen because of severe eczema, so it s based on a milk allergy, so it s a special formula that probably over the last four weeks i have seen, you know, significant decrease in what we are seeing on the shelves, and he needs it. you know, he s an itchy baby, and the eczema does flare up
other things to be concerned about, and not anything i ever thought i would have to worry about. john: stephanie, while we are talking to you. go to the grocery store and pick up a can, right now you can t. john: while we are talking to you, i want to put up on the screen a map of the united states that shows the depth of the shortage here. and clearly when you have a child, particularly one who has, you know, problems with various kinds of formula as hudson does with the eczema and all that, talk to us about the sense of anxiety that you are in a constant state of now, not thinking about things you need to think about typically with a baby but just trying to feed him. i know. i know. and i feel like the last like 3 or 4 days i sit on my phone every hour, you know, looking at walmart and target and amazon and bye-bye baby and everywhere you can buy formula, walgreens, cvs, all out of stock and as a
person i m a little high anxiety anyway, you know. my husband always said like make sure you are stocked up and i never thought it would become an issue, so i didn t listen to him, and i should have but yeah, it s it s just a different time and something that, you know, i m thankful for the people that have been able to help us so far, but it s definitely not a concern i ever thought i would have to worry about. gillian: and good news, by the way, stephanie, he s so cute. i actually can t take it. thank you for bringing him on the air. i just love his face, so awesome. he s a chunk. john: he does look like he s well fed. he needs the formula. john: interesting what you said about not listening to your husband. yesterday we talked to a mom whose husband said no, don t worry about it, we had don t need to do anything. he should have listened to her. the exactly.
stephanie, great to talk to you. let us know how your search goes. gillian: he s getting sleepy. you are doing great, stephanie. thank you. bring in brian kilmeade, co-host of fox and friends, host of one nation, and a dad. brian, talk to us about how you see this problem unfolding, what are folks telling you about what they are living through. i know you talk to people all day long on your radio show. it s unbelievable what s going on and the most telling thing elise picked up the phone, called the white house and said listen, there s a problem with baby formula, a new mom and among leadership on the republican side. we have to handle the baby side situation. the minute there s a recall and you think and something i didn t know, i don t know too many other people that knew, four major companies produce all the baby formula in the united states, and when there s a legitimate problem the f.d.a. has to get involved, i understand it. what you say is listen, as a