We don't bottle feed now but my son was bottlefed and I am thinking it was about 12 cans of the powdered stuff at the highest, of course when he was younger it was less but about 8-12 months I am pretty sure it was 12 cans.
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With my oldest, I was getting 11 cans a month on WIC and would've had to buy some if I wasn't still bf'ing a bit. I would say in the 12-15 range depending on what the baby's appetite is like.
Originally posted by norasmama Yikes! How can anyone afford to bottlefeed?
Without WIC we wouldn't have been able to afford our son. He was on a special formula and it cost way more than I could have ever afforded.
That being said, we went through one 32 ounce can of ready to feed formula a day. Less when he was just an infant, but I don't remember how much less..
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I remember going through 4-5 cans a week back when I had Michael on formula (started at 5 months) and then Melissa was not yet 2 and still drinking soy formula also. (couldn't handle regular milk and I was told not to give soy milk until after age 2).
Those were the smaller cans - at that time soy formula didn't come in big cans. Formula is sold is smaller cans and big cans.
So that was around 16-20 cans a month each can cost $8.99 .
I remember how much that cost having one only on formula and one still having formula in a sippy cup or bottle about 3x/day. Which is why I fought so hard to nurse the twins even with all the issues. We just couldn't have afforded formula for them esp if they needed hypoallergenic. Which Maddy would have - she couldn't tolerate dairy or soy - even me eating them while she was bf-ing. So when she weaned - she drank rice milk, had rice milk on cereal. But we would have gone broke with hypoallergenic formula if I hadn't bf her.
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Last edited by Mama2miracles : 11-07-2004 at 02:43 PM.
Skylar was given the nutramigen and it only comes in the 1lb. cans (or at least back then it only came in that size) and we were going through 10-12 a month.
much love
-Lindsey
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much love
-Lindsey
mama to Skylar (7-12-01), Leah (10-29-04), Addison and Riley (born at 25w4d, 6-17-08)
Married to Ian since 4-28-04
hee-hee - I posted this when we were planning to foster. We've had baby a few months now & I can answer the question:
WAYYYYY tooo much! LOL
Boy, do they go through a LOT of formula!!!! LOL My pantry is full of cans that I have convinced myself I can recycle (wanna guess what people will be getting holiday cookies in? LOL)
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