My friend, M, who I met in the NICU, has lots of issues with her daughter, M.
I think she sees the physio, occupational therapist, speech therapist, dietician, normal paed and a neurologist on a regular basis. She's the one who had 11 appts in a 3-week period last month.
Baby M sees the same dietician that we saw - not surprising as we're with the same paed.
Anyway, so I phoned (!) her and asked her where the best place was to get the Pediasure/ Nutrigen.
She said either Baby City or Dischem.
On Saturday all of us set out to a shopping centre to buy this stuff.
Baby City only had Pediasure in 400 and 900g cans, no Nutrigen.
So off to Dischem (ginormous pharmacy franchise) and they had both. The nutrigen was 79% of the price (when I'm exact like this, I think of MandyH :)) of the Pediasure so I took everything on the shelf.
All 12 cans.
12 400g cans @ R75 a can = R900
Can number 1 lasted until today after morning cereals.
2.5 days.
I then divided 2.5 into a 30-day month and that comes to .... 12 cans.
Pure coincidence.
But what this means is that in a good month, we'll spend R900 on Nutrigen (which, please note, is the cheaper option).
In our worst days of buying formula for the babies, we never spent more than R765 (I checked my spreadsheet :)) and we got 20% back on our credit card the following month, which will not happen now since this is not a partner store.
So I'm freaking out a bit. At the cost and at all the cans littering my kitchen!
Is it bad to give them the Nutrigen in their bottles and still use normal milk for their cereals? I may save about R300...
We were using 1 L full cream milk a day which works out to R240 for the month. So you can see why I'm freaking out at R900!
What do you spend on milk for your baby (ies) in a month?
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