How much money do you save by breastfeeding then?

[mrsfirth]

Obviously there are lots of reasons to b/feed (as there are to f/feed). A handy one is the saving of much needed cash.

I've now b/fed for 2.5 years, so can anyone give me an estimate of how much I have saved?

Ta

loads, sorry can't work it out as don't use formula!

however, the only breastpads that i liked cost about a fiver a pack and i needed them for months and months...

I would guess about £600 if that's two babies you're talking about, £300 for just the one as afaik you don't need to give formula after a year, maybe a bit less/more but I could be wrong as I'm also a breastfeeder.

Tassis, I got the washable ones which work out cheaper, and not scratchy.

idunno but i spent a fotune on lansinoh adn other crap. and hob nobs.

Well Formula is about £7-£8 a tub & you would probably get through one a week

I used washable breast pads when breast feeding so saved so mch money they were fab, brought them for £4.99 for a box of 3.

yep, formula £7 a week. That's the only additional expense as I had steriliser and bottles for b/f anyway. Breast pumps on the other hand can be costly. Also lanisoh at £9.99!

ScoobyDoooo - a box of 3? How does that work then?? Any recommendations?

Sorry i mean a box of 3 pairs.

So six breast pads, i brought them in mothercare i thought they were fab!

it would also depend on whether you would have hypothetically given cows milk or formula after twelve months?

but sod the money ...think of the grief it saved you

Ok LOL.. that makes more sense..

i'm still on the same tube of lansinoh i got when dd was born

aqnd i use it for the nappy covers and everything!

saved fortunes by bf-ing, couldn't have afforded formula

here are there breast pads

Have often wondered this myself, although decided that I probably spent that saving in extra food for me (you know, nutrious super foods like chocolate ).

I've spent about £50 on bras - although I hate them all and have now switched to normal tshirt bras which I just yank down.

Otherwise, I have bought some freezer storage bags and an Avent bottle (my mum bought the pump and steriliser).

I've never needed breast pads.

Those avent washable pads didn't sork for me -leaked right through them!

I've just started yanking down normal bras TQOC and it's really lovely to be in normal bras...why didn't I do this before?!

I think the money I saved on not buying formula, bottles etc was offset by the amount of chocolate and biscuits I consumed due to my incresed appetite.

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this time i have probably spent more Bfing than i would have FFing, this is due to the major problems i had last time i thought this time i would get prepared for the worse and so far have bought;

Silverlon Pad £9.99
2 x Heavenly Breast Pads £6.99 (which have now been reduced GRRR!)
Booby Tubes £16.99 (i think)

things i prob would have bought new for summer anyway are...

Nursing bras £60 approx
Nursing tops £60 approx

Yep, cost was up there on my list of reasons to bf but I have spent an insane amount of money (those are gritted teeth btw).

When I was going through sore nip hell I bought everything and anything that might conceivably help. Oh and the bras and breastpads and pump yaddah yaddah yaddah

Mind you, it kind of acted as a mini-incentive to keep on plugging away...

Not just the money I am so lazy and the idea of bottles and shopping adn sterlizing and mixing and AARRGH!

ITA dimpled

roughly about £955 - 1100

I don't know where you lot buy your formula - or what brand - but when I was in Boots and Morrisons yesterday the price of formula was similar to when I fed DS2 about 2yrs ago - more like £5-6 a tub as opposed to £7-8!!!

Ha, I was waiting for a thread like this to start as I was lying in bed the other day calculating how much I had spent on breastfeeding. Here goes:

2 bras for expressing £50
mini electric breastpump £50
hand breastpump £15
lansinoh £10
silverette £25
Nursing bras £50
Breastmilk storage bottles £20
Widgey cushion £15
Books on breastfeeding £30
New freezer to store all the ebm I expressed while ds was in special care £100

Fortunately was lent massive electric breastpump by the hospital for seven months free of charge, otherwise that would probably have set us back £50 a month for seven months: £350

Worth every penny imo. Now I know what I am doing plan to never go near a breastpump, cushion or read another book on breastfeeding ever again!

I have still got the same bf bras that used for DS. Can't be bothered with pumping, so no real expense... except for my Starbucks cake habit. Hmm, I am the woman who didn't buy her daughter formula so that she could eat cake.