You will save $1000/year in feeding costs alone
 Formula, bottles, nipples, liners and misc. utensils. The costs add up quickly. The American Academy of Pediatrics, in their recent policy statement, report that the 1993 cost of purchasing infant formula was $885 for the first year alone. If you consider that a quite superior product is available at no cost, and considering the millions of infants being fed in the USA at any one time, this is, at the very least, a real waste of our GNP. And our tax dollars. It was reported that the US government spends over $600 million a year to provide formula for its WIC (Women, Infants and Children) supplemental food program. WIC actually provides free infant formula to 37% of all infants born in the USA. Free to the mothers, but of course the formula companies are getting their $600 million. I wonder what we are spending on breastfeeding support under this program? This doesn't touch on the increased health costs of the formula fed baby. A 1995 study by Kaiser-Permanente Health Maintenance in North Carolina found that the formula-fed baby averaged $1400 more annually in medical costs than their breastfed counterparts. Here's a thought, if you take the approximately $2000 you would spend on formula and supplies during your child's infancy, put it into the child's bank account or trust fund, at 9% interest you'll have over $10,000 when your child turns 18! Your breastfeeding can help pay for college! Your breastfeeding can help pay for a month on Hawaii when they leave home! Whatever!
Learn about more benefits of breastfeeding at Disease Prevention, Your Child Will have Fewer Allergies and Breastfeeding is Ecological here at Breastfeeding.com. |
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