Price of formula

[Guest guest]

This may not be accurate but a friend of mine who bottle-fed her

daughter (5 days older than my DD2) reckoned it was about £5 per week

at the beginning. I asked her because I wanted to justify spending

£150 on one of those Slendertone belly buster things!! So when DH

coughed and spluttered about the cost I told him how much money I had

saved us by exclusively BF-ing our girls!! BTW, don't think this £5

took into account cost of bottles, steriliser, sterilising and all the

other stuff you need which we never bought. I think it was just the

cost of the formula.

HTH

Francesca

[Guest guest]

Hazel - know just where you're coming from. I decided very early on with

DS1 that I would breastfeed. I saw no reason not too. However, I had an

emergency caesarean with a GA and missed the first 7 hours of ' life.

I tried to breastfeed for 3 1/2 weeks. But I was ill from the section and

picked up a nasty chest infection because of the anaesthetic. In the end,

my midwife suggested that I would have to give up, because I wasn't getting

any better. The whole thing was just going round and round in circles.

' was then bottlefed whilst I was on complete bed rest for 1 week.

Looking back, I'm not sure how I stayed upright as long as I did!!

When it came to DS2, I was adamant that I was going to breastfeed. I'd felt

cheated the first time round - I hadn't managed to give birth and then I

couldn't feed. I wrote all over my notes that the staff were not to give

the baby a bottle under any circumstances and stuck to it. The pressure at

times made it difficult, but it worked and Oliver fed for 12 months in the

end.

If you decide to go for your next baby, don't think that you won't

breastfeed, because it is possible. You need plenty of support and NCT

counsellors are always willing and (whereever possible) able to help and

support. Go for it!!!

Price of formula? All I remember is that when he stopped having it, there

seemed to be a noticeable amount of money left in the budget each month!!

The tins came in handy for aunt in law's garden though!

Love

Nikki Ford

SAHM to (12), Oliver (9), (4) and Eloise (8/4/00)

" Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited,

while imagination embraces the entire world "

Albert Einstein

[Guest guest]

I understand where you are coming from with the emergency c-section as I had to

have one with epidural to give birth to my son, and it is true, you do feel

cheated out of a natural birth and then not to be able to breastfeed either, its

amazing how many people suffer from this kind of a problem. I had my c-section

at past 10pm and I missed out on valuable feeding time for around 8 hours that

night.

Thanks for your advice Nikki and I am glad that you were able to breatsfeed a

second child.

Hazel

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