I Realized My Own Privilege When I Spent $600 on Baby Formula

And I’d do it again

Michele Pittman
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readJun 5, 2022

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The national baby formula shortage may be waning, but I promise you, for anyone with formula age babies, the anxiety associated with that scarcity mindset isn’t. A perfect storm of pandemic hoarding, pandemic supply chain issues, a national formula recall, and ultimately the shutdown of Abbott Laboratories, a large producer of…

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Michele Pittman
ILLUMINATION

Writer, seeker, curious human & truth-teller. I write it all.