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How Much Infant Formula Costs
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Infant Formula Is the Real Liquid Gold at One Dollar an Ounce

When people say that breastfeeding saves money, they're talking dollars not cents.
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When people say that breastfeeding saves money, they're talking dollars not cents. Since the milk is manufactured by a mother's body, nursing a newborn is nutritious and free. Though breast milk is called liquid gold, it seems like it'd be a more appropriate term for formula once you run the figures on popular brands. On average, one ounce of the powder (which makes two ounces of fluid) costs about a buck with organic and conventional formulas at similar price points. Check out these numbers.

  • Similac Advance w/ Early Shield Powder Formula — 23.2 oz. ($22.49) = $0.97 per ounce
  • Enfamil Premium Powder — 23.4 oz ($24.99) = $1.06 per ounce
  • Earth's Best Milk Based Formula Organic Infant Formula Dairy w/DHA — 25.75 oz ($27.99) = $1.08 per ounce
  • Good Start Gentle Plus Powder — 25.7 oz ($26.49) = $1.03 per ounce
  • Bright Beginnings Milk-Based Organic Infant Formula — 25.75 can ($24.99) = $0.97 per ounce
  • Vermont Organics DHA Soy Based Organic Infant Formula — 25.7 oz can ($24.99) = $0.97 per ounce

Caring for baby can cost a bundle! Check out all our It Adds Up! coverage.

Formula-Feeding Facts
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Test Your Formula-Feeding Knowledge

There's so much talk about the benefits of breastfeeding that society often fails to educate new mamas about the proper way to bottle-feed their tots.
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There's so much talk about the benefits of breastfeeding that society often fails to educate new mamas about the proper way to bottle-feed their tots. Recent studies show that moms are not receiving enough information about the correct and hygienic way to formula-feed their lil ones. Take this quiz and see how much you know about bottle feeding baby.

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Mommy Alert! BPA Found in Formula Cans
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Mommy Alert! BPA Found in Formula Cans

When the bisphenol-A warning came out earlier this year cautioning the use of certain brands of baby bottles, I cleared out my cupboard.
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When the bisphenol-A warning came out earlier this year cautioning the use of certain brands of baby bottles, I cleared out my cupboard.

Now, a research organization, the Environmental Working Group, insists that low doses of BSA can pose a risk to children and questions whether infant formula sold in cans lined with BSA (to protect the formula from the metal can) are safe.

EWG's website lists four major brands — Nestlé, Similac, Enfamil and PBM (who make store-brand formulas for WalMart, Target, Kroger and other retailers) as makers who use PBA in the linings of their liquid formula cans. And, most also use it in their powder formula containers.

Yesterday, a CNN story explored the issue. It said:

"The group (EWG) says, based on its analysis of existing research on BPA, even a very small amount of the compound may cause a host of problems, from brain and behavioral disorders to cancer, a claim the formula makers and federal regulators adamantly deny."

The EWG's website recommends powder formula over the liquid because "calculations indicate that babies fed reconstituted powdered formula likely receive 8 to 20 times less BPA than those fed liquid formula from a metal can."

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