Lea writes:
For a newborn to 1 month old who will have a 2 ounce bottle 7x a day
Cost/week: $8.33
For a 2 month - 6 month old who will have a 4 ounce bottle 7x a day
Cost/week: $17
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I would be willing to wager there are very few 2 week old infants on
formula that take only 2 ounces/feed. I would also be willing to wager that
most 3 month olds drink 5 to 6 ounces per feed.
Don't forget to include the cost of waste -- Mom fixed 8 ounces and baby
only took 6, so two were tossed.
I did some calculations on this years ago -- gosh, I wish I could remember
what they were now....but costs, just of the formula itself, was a lot
higher than this.
We looked at the costs of powder, concentrate and RTF. I think I did it
in about 1990 or 1992.
Just got this off the San Diego BF website:
Cost per year
1 Breastfeeding (200-500 kcal/d) $300 Formula:2 Powder (1 lb can)
$1,188 Concentrate (13 oz can) $1,512 Ready to feed (32 oz can) $1,728 Ready
to feed (8 oz cans, 4 pack) $2,376
1. Assuming average formula intake for 1st year of life of 10,800 oz
2. Enfamil with Fe, Von's Supermarket shelf price, San Diego, CA, Dec 2001
I think every high school health class ought to figure this out.
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA
Lactation Education Consultants
_www.lactationeducation.com_ (http://www.lactationeducation.com/)
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