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[sturmdogg]

You have to have breasts in order to make breast milk.

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I should know, my Chinese girlfriend is so flat

You know, there IS a way to make them bigger...and no, I'm not talking about implants.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Then again issues of toxic substances found in powdered milk probably has something to do with it too.

 

[luxarific]

That just sounds really odd. Like, from an evolutionary standpoint how could a female struggle to produce enough milk? It doesn't seem like artificial formula would have been in our history as a species long enough to have any kind of impact, so you'd think that women would have the ability to easily produce enough.

I mean I'm not doubting your claim, I just find it a bit fascinating.

Wet nurses existed before formula (and are still around). There have always been women who have been unable to breastfeed, whether by necessity or choice.

 

[tino]

Looks like the movie Dumplings really messed up my impression of Hong Kong because all I could think of when reading that title was:
http://i.imgur.com/UxvCDBE.jpg

 

[El'Kharn]

CITATION NEEDED.

And define 'can'? My missus could for the first few months and then it dried up. Your flippancy and fake statistic are annoying me.

That annoyed me aswell. Simple fact is that brest feeding differs from woman to woman. Some can produce enough milk for the needs of their children with no need for formula and some just cant. It has nothing to do with diet or other such factors. Some just do and some just cant. This is comming from someone who has had a huge amount of experiance in such things, i'm the father of six children and my wife could only produce milk for the first four to six months of all of our childrens lives. After that we had to rely on formula.

 

[suzu]

It seems a lot of Chinese citizens don't trust in their own country's products. So they have family or friends send them things from overseas.

I always see many Asian people buying baby formula and vitamins/supplements whenever I go to Costco.

 

[Aad]

first nappies, now this.

 

[crimsondynamics]

You can freeze the milk and warm it up for bottle feeding.
Invalid argument.

Plenty of breastfeeding women try to pump their milk and freeze it but at the same time they comment on how excruciatingly painful it is to do so. Many are forced to give up when their aureole start to blister or bleed so eventually even this no longer is an option.

 

[Thomasnoki]

Yes it is shortage in milk powder. But it is just under manufacturers control. People in HK or smugglers only interesting the milk powder doing the TV commercial all day. The "not so famous" brands just eating dust in the super market.

The latest news is local media found out manufacturers just keep the shipping slow and steady. creating a "shortage" feel to increase the sales.
A Hong Kong hotline set up for parents to order milk formula done 2500 orders in a week. But the new shipment of milk powder is 1,000,000 can.

Hong Kong are the second lowest birth rate of the world. why should we need these much of milk power.

 

[SRG01]

Yes it is shortage in milk powder. But it is just under manufacturers control. People in HK or smugglers only interesting the milk powder doing the TV commercial all day. The "not so famous" brands just eating dust in the super market.

The latest news is local media found out manufacturers just keep the shipping slow and steady. creating a "shortage" feel to increase the sales.
A Hong Kong hotline set up for parents to order milk formula done 2500 orders in a week. But the new shipment of milk powder is 1,000,000 can.

Hong Kong are the second lowest birth rate of the world. why should we need these much of milk power.

I was talking to my mum and dad and they mentioned the same thing too. Part of the reason is that few are willing to try other brands, and the other is that doctors are also unwilling to recommend anything else.

 

[numble]

I wonder what will happen to Hong Kong if they get to the point of real reunification and stop being a special territory to become just another city in China. Will they be able to keep this tax structure and the foreign headquarters within the city or will they all move to Singapore?

It's unlikely to change; even if it does, it'd likely retain the same tax system.

There's still the problem with inertia--why haven't banks moved from Wall Street or London despite those locations becoming some of the most taxed locations in the world? Hong Kong also is a good place for a port in any case, for goods coming out of and into China.

 

[yuna55]

So nurse in the meantime. . .

lol Yes, because after months of feeding a child formula, you can turn on the tits like a faucet.

I always love hearing how easy breastfeeding is from people who will never do it. I breastfeed my child every day and pump every chance I get and still have to give my child formula. It has been harder/more stressful, by far, than pregnancy and childbirth. Unless you're attached to a kid 8-12 times every 24 hours, aka don't work outside the home, your supply will dwindle, for some more than others. It's nature's supply and demand.

Pumps help, but they will never get as much milk as a child who latches properly. When I went back to work and had to replace daytime nursing with pumping, my supply was already cut in half within the first month. My freezer stash of 30+ bags of milk was gone my first "bad" week.

The pain, dragging around a heavy bag with a machine in it, cleaning the parts and bottles, finding somewhere private that's available, getting half undressed in a cold office building, being ridiculed or scolded or looked down upon by coworkers who are in no way affected, etc takes up 1.5-2 hours of what should be an 8 hour work day but is now a 9 or 10 hour work day. All to get a portion of the milk your child could've nursed. Yup, easy peasy.

 

[AlphaTwo00]

The simplest solution and add a 10% tax to all baby formula sold and use the money to subsidize local babies.

This Hong Kong government seem to be very inflexible.

Hard to justify a tax when they're overflowing money and had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to give it out to people.

Also, a tax system on formula hits low and middle income families immediately, but the subsidy that would get back to them may not come in right away. Then suddenly you end up taxing the poor more than fixing the problem of outside demands increasing prices.

 

[MWS Natural]

Why I always make sure my house cleaner is a pregnant Cambodian immigrant.

 

[SRG01]

Hard to justify a tax when they're overflowing money and had a hell of a time trying to figure out how to give it out to people.

Yeah, remember when they had to refund money back to the taxpayers a couple of years ago? UGH.