Families feel baby formula shortage squeeze
Brook Blankenship, 21, feeds her 11-month-old daughter Harlynn a bottle Thursday afternoon in their downtown Coeur d'Alene home. With baby No. 2 on the way, Blankenship is feeling the pinch of the national and local infant formula shortage.
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Hayden mom Danielle St. Pierre and son Myles have experienced the infant formula shortage firsthand. "It is heart-breaking," St. Pierre said. "I have woken early and gone to stores in the wee hours of the morning to find his formula in hopes they stocked in the middle of the night, often going to four or more stores only to come out empty handed."
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Mom-to-be Melanie Straw, 20, of Athol, waits for a question to be answered by health education specialist McKenna Mitchell after a Mommy to Be class Thursday at Panhandle Health. Moms everywhere are feeling the pressure of the national shortage of infant formula.
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It was around Christmas when Brook Blankenship first noticed a sparseness in the supply of infant formula....
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