MTG is dragged on Twitter hard about baby formula shortage

[MissB]

22. There are so many reasons why women choose to use formula

Be careful - your privilege may be showing.

Why use formula? Some women need to return to work almost immediately. Not every employer provides enough time and space for a breastfeeding woman to pump. Not every woman has enough supply. Not every woman *wants* to breastfeed, and that's okay too.

I am lucky. I had a very friendly employer that had a room set up that I could use in peace. I was working a union job, so I had two breaks and a lunch hour. I was also doing a job that required me to go in the field frequently. There were quite a few times when I had to hook up the pump while driving down the road at 55+ mph so I could get back to the office in time to grab my kid(s) before daycare closed. It would've been easier to use formula for sure. I was just lucky that I could breastfeed my kids as long as I did. I was lucky that my daycare was in my building at work. (Where was my dh? His job required him to do a lot of traveling in our kids' early years; he worked two blocks from my building.)

But seriously, I was (and still am) in a profession that is really pretty much an office job. I don't work in a warehouse, or in food service. Folks with those sorts of jobs may not be able to easily breastfeed. They may actually need their jobs to keep a roof over the heads of their kids, or perhaps to pay for daycare.