Friday, January 9, 2009

Got Complete Medical Nutrition?

The other day a friend was complaining bitterly about the cost of milk these days and how much her two toddlers drink and how ridiculously high the price of a gallon of milk is, blah, blah, blah. Since I buy Eliza's "complete medical nutrition" a/k/a formula in bulk and shell out about $1500 per delivery I never really thought how much the formula cost per gallon (no, no dear readers, neither my insurance company nor the government feel the need to pay for this). So I took out my handy dandy calculator and came up with (are you ready):

$57.49 per gallon

That could get me quite a few of these in a year:



or these:



or these:





I was a much happier person before I took out that damn calculator.

Prematurity... Should It Be a Classification for Special Needs Services?

It is hard to fathom that in a couple of days Eliza will be ten. I look back on the past decade and and am amazed, and often baffled, how sh...