Staring at row upon row of bare shelves where baby formula should be, I was gripped by a now-familiar cocktail of emotions - frustration, dread, exhaustion, panic – as I asked myself repeatedly how I was going to feed my five-month-old daughter.I broke down in tears in the middle of the aisle in a CVS in , pushed to my limit by the sheer helplessness of navigating the acute baby formula crisis that’s gripping America, leaving supermarket and pharmacy shelves bare and to find enough produce to feed their children.I'm a working, first-time mom to my daughter Amelia. Leaving my child at day-care at such a young age is hard. Worrying what to feed her takes new motherhood to a new level of stress. Add to the equation that she, like so many other babies, requires a specific brand of lactose-free formula because her digestive system is unable to break down large milk proteins and, in this climate, it's a whole new stratosphere of anxiety.
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