As part of the treatment (or whatever the word would be in this case) for Jack’s Milk Protien Intolerance, we put him on a formula called Neocate.  I put a large amount of the credit for Jack having some Happy Baby time to this formula.  You’ve never heard of Neocate you say?  Well, not many kids are on it.  Most can go to some version of Enfamil or Similac for the intolerance stuff.  Some though need to go a step further and that is Neocate.

Here are a few things about Neocate--

1) It’s expensive.  Here’s a comparison:

$14.99

$27.90

$40 on the internet ($70 in the drugstore)

Well, Stunning and I got one thing of the Neocate from the doctor.  All of a sudden, we realized we were running insanely low and this isn’t something you can run to the store to get.  You have to get it from a drugstore (there’s only one in all of San Antonio that carries it in stock and it’s $70 there) or from the internet.  We realized this on Friday, so had to get it delivered on Saturday and had to buy it in a pack of four.  Grand total for four cans of formula?

$169.00

We went from breastfeeding, which would save us thousands to the most expensive formula known to man.  I’m thinking about getting a side job at McDonald’s.