Olivia Munn is “Panicking” Due to Baby Formula Shortage

[pumkinbutter]

It’s so crazy when people say “if you breastfeed you won’t have to worry about the formula shortage!” I have low milk supply, so to keep my baby fed I depend on formula. I wish I could breastfeed so I wouldn’t be panicking about the shortage right now. But I don’t have a choice.
- o l i v i a (@oliviamunn) May 19, 2022
Olivia Munn slammed the people

Comments

[xtinkerbellax]

I think the dumbest comment I've seen in regards to this was, well if you can't breastfeed you shouldn't have kids, as if that's something you'd know before having one. Another miss for US reproductive education.

[crimps4]

(Angry react to what you're quoting not to you!!)

[anakisa]

ia with you and i am betting they're also referring to all the other ppl who know in advance they won't be able to breastfeed due to a variety of illnesses, so this is high-key ableist and homophobic too

they think hiv+ mothers shouldn't be allowed to conceive because they can´t breastfeed, they think trans fathers who can't breast feed because they've had mastectomies shouldn't be able to conceive
and they also just want to shit on cis-mothers because they hate women in general

disgusting ppl always come up with the worst possible takes

[gillenvillain]

But we'll still make you have that kid whether you want it or not...regardless if you can feed, house, educate it... but I digress.

[distant_lines]

Even if we could know, they won't let us abort anyway, so...

[odetothefool]

we need like a list of anti-abortion comebacks and someone should add this one to this list

[delfintaka]

Rude! I think it is pretty common to have good supply with one baby, but more limited supply with another! There are many many factors involved.

[archersangel]

I think it is pretty common to have good supply with one baby, but more limited supply with another!

That's what happened with my Mom. She did very well with me, but when my brother was born 3 years later, dried up after just a few months. My brother was a bottle refuser (as was I) & it was a very frustrating time for both of them.

[ladycyndra]

Those people can fuck off.

[erika92]

People need to shut the fuck up about Womens bodies

[hellojeds]

The BBC interviewed a woman who had just adopted a baby and was struggling to get baby formula. She said there was an all-out war online with some mothers criticising others for not breastfeeding and saying you reap what you sow, etc.

Which conveniently leaves out situations where the baby is adopted, being fostered, from a surrogate, or their caregivers can't produce enough or any milk, or for health reasons, or another of the myriad of reasons why someone might be desperately looking for formula to feed their baby.

[takopoly]

There are so many reasons an infant can't be breastfeed OR given breastmilk (pumped or donated) -- a lot of NICU bebes, for example. Where are the pro-lifers now?

[evilgerbil]

Before I gave birth I bought 2 pumping bras, 4 nursing bras, 6 nursing tank tops, two books on breastfeeding, a breast pump, two containers of ointment for cracked nipples, 3 boxes of nursing pads, and a nursing pillow. But my baby hates breastfeeding and the pump will not remove milk. I have to express by hand (like milking a cow). There are so many like me who wanted to breastfeed and can't. My baby gets 1/3 to 1/2 of her diet from expressed breast milk so luckily I'm not totally dependent on formula.

[angelgurl21]

The amount of money I've spent on pumping machines, part, bras, tanks, etc is just ridiculous. I'm lucky to have that privilege. But it is NOT an easy journey at all and to just expect women to be able to do it is just very naïve to the difficulties of breastfeeding, esp in the modern age where many women in the US don't get much time off postpartum.