The desperate parents stealing formula to feed their babies
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Data from First Steps Nutrition shows that the cheapest brand of formula has increased in price by 45% in the past two years.
On the Sky News Daily, Leah Boleto speaks to Sky’s Tom Parmenter who has uncovered the story and been speaking to desperate parents and Clare Murphy, from the British Pregnancy Advice Service, who says the country is on the brink of a public health crisis.
Podcast producer: Emma-Rae Woodhouse
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:00.0 | We all love a good meal, but there's no feeling quite like cooking one, |
| 0:04.0 | whether it's everyone at yours for a Sunday roast, or after-school sausage and mash. |
| 0:09.0 | Quick, simple, gone in minutes. |
| 0:12.0 | One thing brings it all together. |
| 0:15.0 | Ah, Bisto, the original gravy, rich,, smooth and unmistakable since 1908. |
| 0:24.6 | When the gravy makes the dish, make the gravy. |
| 0:27.6 | Ah, Bisto. |
| 0:29.6 | Add water to your will. |
| 0:31.6 | And know that from that single drop, life will grow. Communities will flourish. A better world will be left. |
| 0:43.3 | By leaving a gift in your will to Water Aid, you'll help bring essential clean water to people who need it, |
| 0:49.3 | to change their own lives for generations to come. Add Water Aid to your will. Search WaterAid |
| 0:56.7 | Legacy to find out how. As a mum of two, my first baby was bottle fed and my second was breastfed, |
| 1:09.5 | and both journeys had their moments. |
| 1:11.6 | But when I made up my first bottle of formula for my baby, I remember my hand shaking as I poured the powder his only source of food into the bottle. |
| 1:20.6 | I'd never done it before and I was making it up under the pressure from the hunger scream. |
| 1:26.6 | I can't imagine what that experience would have been like |
| 1:29.4 | if I'd have known that I was just a few scoops away from an empty tub |
| 1:34.1 | without any means to buy another. |
| 1:37.3 | It feels completely unthinkable. |
| 1:40.4 | But with the cost of baby formula going through the roof rising up by 45% in the past two years, |
| 1:46.4 | Sky News has spoken to desperate parents across the country who are going to drastic levels to make sure their babies are fed, |
| 1:53.5 | and in some cases risking their baby's health. |
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