I am in Canada. Sorry the Nutramigen is about $22 for a 400gm tin vs $24-26 for a 730gm tin of Enfamil regular/soy/AR etc. It was the Neocate that is soooo expensive. It is $50 for a 400gm tin. When she was on Neocate I was spending over $700/month on it. Considering I get $806 every two weeks from EI the formula was costing half of what I was earning per month. Just crazy.
I tried the soy because my numerous appeals to my benefits plan failed and my pead said that based on the type of intolerance she has 80% of infants with that type of intolerance can handle soy. I guess the difference is if there are antibodies in the blood. I can't remember exactly off the top of my head but she didn't have the antibodies in her blood so it wasn't an allergy issue but just an intolerance to the protein. To be honest I think she will be able to tolerate dairy. I'm just not sure I want to switch to a full dairy formula yet until I get her sleeping/teething sorted. I know I'm almost at the point where she should be drinking milk so I'm not really sure what to do. That is one of the things I'm going to discuss with the pead tomorrow. I'm thinking I may try a gradual switch over like I did with the soy. I changed her from the Neocate to soy over a period of a month.
She has made so many improvements over the past couple of months that I'm afraid to push too much but with her going to daycare in 2 weeks I really have to try. I would love to get her off of formula and just onto milk and there is no way I want to be giving her soy milk to drink. I really don't want her having that much soy.
On a bright note, she had some beans today. The beans in tomato sauce. Way more sugar in it than she has ever had so it's no wonder she loved them. But the really big hit of the day was garlic and chive cream cheese sandwiches. She love, love, loved it. She ate half a sandwich and still wanted more
