Chapter 1: What challenges do new mothers face with breastfeeding and formula feeding?
I went into motherhood grounded in all of these beliefs and expectations that my body would be able to exclusively breastfeed my babies.
Chapter 2: How do FDA nutritional standards impact infant formula quality?
Five days in to having my first kid, I got mastitis and it got to the place where I wasn't able to get enough milk out to feed my child. And the alternative for me to feed my child was going to a pharmacy to buy my baby's food. And I was riddled with guilt. Formula is food. Why are we also going to a pharmacy, which is typically a place that you would go purchase drugs for a medical need?
Your ability to not be able to breastfeed shouldn't be seen as a medical problem.
Chapter 3: What are the emotional effects of formula usage on mothers?
There's been so much shame and stigma tied to how you feed your child that we have to develop a new relationship with it.
Laura Modi is the co-founder and the CEO of Bobby, the first women-led organic infant formula company driving policy and cultural change in early nutrition. Now, before founding Bobby, she spent six years at Airbnb, where she led global host experience and trust initiatives.
In 2025, she was named one of Times Magazine's Women of the Year for her leadership in reshaping how America feeds its babies.
I started looking at the nutritional standards that the FDA had set and was questioning why hadn't they really evolved over the last 30 years. Essentially the same formula that I probably was consuming as a child was the same formula that existed on shelf for our kids. But every other food source has seen some change with the latest science. 50% of babies born in the country rely on WIC.
The way it's set up for infant formula is that the two major companies will bid for the winning per state and they will be the formula of choice in that state for any WIC participants.
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Chapter 4: What lessons were learned from the 2022 infant formula shortage?
So what that does is limits choice. I mean, frankly, I think it's a sign that inequality starts day one.
Chapter 5: How does the composition of breast milk influence infant health?
How do you give advice to mothers who are trying to figure out how to navigate this space? How do they make the right choice for themselves and for their baby?
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Chapter 6: What are the differences between US and European formula standards?
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Chapter 7: How does stigma around formula feeding affect parents?
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Chapter 8: What policy changes are needed to improve infant formula access?
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Thank you for having me. Delighted to be here.
Now, we're talking about a topic today that impacts millions of people that has been fraught for many reasons and problematic, which is how do you feed your baby? Breast milk formula... Good, bad? How do we think about it? And what are the problems with our current situation around formula, particularly in America? As a physician, and I delivered 500 babies in my day.
Wow.
And I loved OB, and I was a family doctor, so I took care of the mother and the baby. So the whole way through. And I remember being in the hospital, especially where I was training, And I would deliver babies, and I would have to put an order in the chart to not feed the baby formula unless it was under a doctor's order. Mark!
And the reason I did that was because I wanted the nurses to actually support and encourage mothers to breastfeed.
Of course.
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