The search for scarce formula is worse for rural families on WIC
Two months after giving birth, Jennifer Magee noticed a change in her baby's feeding routine that scared her: She was starting to drink more formula, almost every hour.
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Two months after giving birth, Jennifer Magee noticed a change in her baby's feeding routine that scared her: She was starting to drink more formula, almost every hour.
Constraints imposed by the Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants, and Children, known as WIC, that prevent recipients from using benefits to buy formula across state lines weigh on families as the nationwide formula shortage drags on.
After one of the nation's biggest baby formula companies recalled multiple products, with one brand halting production in its key manufacturing facility,
Constraints on federal assistance program that prevent recipients from using benefits to buy formula across state lines weigh on families as nationwide formula shortage drags on.
Poor health care access and aggressive formula marketing are driving down America’s breastfeeding rates.