Maryland Mom of Twins Worries over Baby Formula Shortage: ‘This Is Scary!’

“This has GOT to be addressed!!!!” she wrote on Facebook on May 9. “Raise the gas prices, inflate the food, but give our babies the food they NEED!!!! How the hell did this just become optional?”

She continued:

For now, Zurenko is trying to find workarounds, as her family in other parts of the country are checking local stores for baby formula and sending it to her if they have any. But even when they do find some, the family runs into snags, as customers are typically limited to purchasing a certain amount as stores such as Walgreens and CVS are rationing the supply.

“I have to show them pictures of my twins,” she said. “I’m like, ‘Look, I really have two babies.’”

“Formula is fundamental for all of us moms who don’t have a choice in the matter. And we’re going to have babies that are malnourished,” she said, adding that people are complaining about gas prices and inflation, but pointing out, “at least food and gas are available.”

“Gas is way too high and it’s overpriced. But it’s available — that is the difference.”

“I would almost rather the formula be available and the prices inflated, like everything else in the country right now,” she said, adding that the Biden administration would likely be “jumping in” to “fight” the battle if the country ran out of gas rather than formula.

A mother of twins feeds her babies. (Getty Images)

Biden’s baby formula shortage has driven countless parents across the country into panic, as they tell the stories of their struggles to access nourishment for their babies.

“Since early April, baby formula out-of-stock rates have soared to 40 percent across the country, according to our analysis,” Ben Reich, CEO of Datasembly told Breitbart News.

“Baby formula demonstrated inflationary spikes in July of 2021, and the situation has continued to worsen the first few months of 2022. Inflation, supply chain shortages and product recalls have continued to bring volatility to the category, and continues to be one of the most affected products in the market,” he added.

This week, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) attributed the baby formula shortage to the economic shutdown during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to allow an Abbott Laboratories plant in Sturgis, Michigan, to reopen, after it was forced to recall baby formula and shut down over allegations of contaminated formula months ago. The FDA has not said when it can reopen, even though an investigation  revealed that “infant formula produced at our Sturgis facility is not the likely source of infection in the reported cases and that there was not an outbreak caused by products from the facility,” according to Abbott.