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Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache
Thank Jesus my youngest is off baby formula too. You better hope the mom breast feeds because holy smokes has that ever got expensive. I spent close to $8000 the first year just on formula. Is it really that expensive to produce this stuff?
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Especially when the manufacturer stops making a certain formula and tells you they'll have a replacement sometime in the future. So then you need ready to feed bottles, and that's an insanity cost. The whole thing with baby formula is outrageous.
I will say, though, that 8k per year is probably a poor guess. We foster, and so we need to use formula. However, due to the fostering, we get all infant care reimbursed, so I know exactly how much we spend on diapers, formula, etc. Over the first 6 months we've spent $420/month, or just over $5k for a year, and we use the fancy Enfamil formula too. So $8k per year just for formula alone is highly excessive, I would guess.