With July less than two weeks away, many parents of formula-fed infants are still left wondering how they’ll feed their babies. A problem they’ve been stressed about for months.
"It's infuriating, it's absolutely heartbreaking to feel like you don't know when the next time you're going to be able to find this formula,” said Lindsey Hartell, a mom in Indianapolis.
Target is also still limiting in-person and online customer purchases through June, despite receiving millions of bottles of formula from U.K. manufacturer Kendal Nutricare, whose Kendamil product is a good substitute for babies needing Similac. The plant had to pause production again this week. This time, to survey damage caused by strong storms and flooding.
To ease the strain, the White House completed its seventh Operation Fly Formula mission, including a shipment of nearly 550,000 8-ounce bottles of Nestlé specialty infant formula from Switzerland to Louisville, Kentucky this week."I kept hearing oh there's a military plane that came in and dropped off a whole bunch of formula and I'm like where's my formula and it's not there. It's scary,” said Hartell.