Those WITHOUT healthy start vouchers- how much is milk costing you a month?

[honeybee2]

We buy C&G comfort milk at £10 a tub for 900g.

We get through at least 1 tub a week, so its costing us £50 a month!

 

[Mummythree]

It will cost you alot less when you get your milk tokens.
we use 4-5 tubs amonth (4weeks in a month) so about £50 a month. we dont get milk tokens, not entitled to them.

 

[rebeccalouise]

We buy C&G comfort milk at £10 a tub for 900g.

We get through at least 1 tub a week, so its costing us £50 a month!

exactly the same it's sooo much money! x

 

[MrsButterfly]

My lo goes through around one tub a week but is on hipp combiotic which is £7.60 ish so quite a bit cheaper which helps.

 

[MrsButterfly]

p.s. what are healthy start vouchers??

 

[Cin]

We're also on C&G Comfort, only just started him on it a few days ago but it's going to cost us £40 - £50 a month

 

[sarahtia]

my dd is going though one and half a week but is on the normal c&g so about £12 a week thats why i cant wait to wean her at about 5 months it will be so much cheaper, we nt entitled to the vouchers tho

healthy start vouchers help you get babys milk, normal milk, fruit and veg each voucher is only worth a set amount and with two vouchers you cant even get one tub of milk and you can get them if you are on

Income Support, or
Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, or
Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, or
Child Tax Credit (but not Working Tax Credit unless your family is receiving Working Tax Credit run-on only*) and has an annual family income of £16,190 or less (2012/13).

You also qualify if you are under 18 and pregnant, even if you don’t get any of the above benefits or tax credits.

 

[aimee-lou]

£55 a month average.

Earl used to drink about the same as Eddy and it wasn't until he was 7+ months that we really noticed a drop in his milk intake (went from 42oz a day to around 28 lol). I'm thinking that we will have about 4 more expensive months and then we'll go down to about £35 a month until he finishes with formula at 13 months. We use the first milk all the way through so can't even save by using follow on which is significantly cheaper. We use SMA1 which is £9 a tub and lasts about 5 days.

 

[dizz]

Get through just over a carton of cow and gate hungry baby milk a week at present. Probably £40-£50 a month, and we come just over the threshold for any help in the form of tax credits or anything at all (by a couple of hundred quid).

Oh well - such is life.

 

[bubbles123]

I get through about 4 tubs of aptamil a month and about 4 or 5 cartons a week when out so spend about 50 pounds.

 

[Vesta]

We spend about £35 a month.

 

[PrincessKay]

We use aptamil so £9.49 a tub. One tub lasts just over a week

 

[honeybee2]

He's a hungry baby so a tub lasts for about 6 full days if we're lucky.

We get tax credits so no milk tokens (healthy start vouchers) for us

 

[Kate&Lucas]

Milk tokens aren't much are they? I've never bothered getting them, too much faff for my liking
Then again I wasn't entitled 'til he was 1. Formula is a right PITA though! I was made up when Lucas started dropping feeds.

 

[MaybBaby]

We don't qualify either - we go through a tub of SMA a week now doms on stage two its 8 pound a week so just under 40 quid a month - i thought cow and gate was ALOT cheaper than that?! because i was gutted dom didnt take to it hehe

i was annoyed with the voucher system as i was told by one person i was allowed, then told as i had a partner and we both worked we were exempt....but then she gave me a free bottle of healthy start vitamins on the side i found it better to talk to my breastfeeding expert about the healthy start, although by the time i got the vits my milk dried up and that was it for BFing. xx

 

[HellBunny]

We use Hipp which is £7.66 for 800g box.. we get through around 5 boxes a month so about £37 x with my eldest he over fed due to reflux.. we spent around £55 a month x

 

[Danielleee]

Before weaning we used 6 £7.99 c&g tubs a month = £48 plus ready made cartons on top,
now we get through 3-4 tubs a month so under £30 x

 

[momofone08]

I did the math and 50 pounds is $81/month. I was paying $18/can but now that she has a milk and soy allergy I am paying$25/can so over $100 a month here

 

[ClairAye]

Roughly £39.
Buy a box of Aptimal once a week

 

[Celesse]

Thought I would share this.

https://info.babymilkaction.org/news/campaignblog310712

Cost of formula feeding for 12 months and where the money goes

Feeding a child on SMA ready-to-feed infant formula and observing the instruction to discard milk not used within 2 hours, will use 1,398 bottles over the first year if following the table on a 250 ml bottle. At 79 pence per bottle (the price in Boots on 24 August 2012), this will cost £1,104.42, not including the teats. Of this, parents are paying between about £585 and £884 towards company promotion costs and profit, based on the above figures.

Powdered formula is cheaper. Following the Aptamil feeding table and current price of £9.49 per 900g tin (Tesco on 24 August 2012), the total amount of milk powder required would cost £436.54 (not allowing for throwing away unused formula and not including bottles, sterilising etc). Applying the above percentages, would mean parents are contributing between £231 and £349 towards company promotion costs and profit.

I find it pretty shocking that half the cost of a tin of formula is going into the companies pockets or towards marketing. Formula companies are not allowed to promote milk aimed at babies under 6 months, but they are allowed to promote follow on and toddler milk. So they are taking the profits from the sales of the milk they are not allowed to advertise and using the money to advertise follow on milk and increase brand awareness.

We are combi feeding so costs are a lot lower. Generally one lot of HIPP lasts us 5 weeks. I really don't know how I would fit in £50 a month extra into our grocery bill if I had needed to FF.