What to do with formula samples? - Page 2

[srmina]

Here's something I found in Tribal Areas...an adoptive mom who will need to supplement and is looking for formula and bm.

http://www.mothering.com/discussions...d.php?t=277378

[womama]

i left the coupons on the formula in the grocery store.

[tayndrewsmama]

Originally Posted by womama

i left the coupons on the formula in the grocery store.

I did that once with coupons for free boxes of rice cereal too.

[zerby]

I donated mine to a womens violence shelter with the logis that the moms in need were already FFing. I pumped for my daughter while she was tube fed, so that would be a harder call for me to make, with the addition that the formula that she would have required was NOT offered as a sample, ( since it cost $40+ a can as compared to $10). I don't know how I woulddonate if that opportunity arrived in that case.

[Leatherette]

You could contact your local family services agency and give samples and coupons to foster parents. I think they have a legitimate reason to not be breastfeeding.

L.

[Chanley]

Dont know if this has been mentioned but most pounds and humane societies will take formula for infant puppies and kittens that have been abandoned.

[JanetF]

I fed it to my cats and put it on my potplants. Any bottles or anything related to ff I've ever been given I have thrown away. No one needs any more encouragement to give up bf IMO.

[annettemarie]

Originally Posted by Chanley

Dont know if this has been mentioned but most pounds and humane societies will take formula for infant puppies and kittens that have been abandoned.

Actually, the shelters around here won't take it anymore. They said it wasn't good enough for the animals. (!)

[darwinphish]

It's not nutritionally complete for young cats and dogs, that's why it's not "good enough" for animal shelters.

[KariM]

We donated ours to a rehab shelter for moms. It's a place in Milwaukee that takes in moms and their kids and helps the moms kick drugs/alcohol. Since most of the moms have street drugs in their systems feeding the babes formula seemer the safer choice.

--Kari

[supervee]

Thanks for all these great ideas!

[elmh23]

I gave the cans to a girl I know who had a baby a month before me and chose not to breastfeed. She is a poor, working mom, so I figured if I wasn't going to use it, she might aswell save money on the four cans I got.

I've been getting the coupons every month for five months and every single one is thrown in the trash.

[Simply Nurtured]

What about freecycle?

I just saw someone offering formula on my freecycle board.

[annettemarie]

Originally Posted by Simply Nurtured

What about freecycle?

I just saw someone offering formula on my freecycle board.

Again, there are ethical issues with potentially interfering with the breastfeeding relationship.

[Benji'sMom]

I threw mine away. I didn't know anyone who was already ffing.

[polka123]

I got tons of cans in the mail & donated them to my church
& a battered women's shelter
when a mama/with babes needs to escape in the middle of the night, she needs whatever.
if they are FF'ing, there ya go.

[girlndocs]

I would have DH take Polaroids of me flushing it down the toilet. Then I would send the formula compny some nice pics

[ZeldasMom]

I have not tried this (while I was figuring out what to do with the formula I received it went past the expiration date), but I have read that you can drink the formula yourself for a nutritional boost while bf.

[Electra375]

I too wanted to not promote formula feeding, so I listed the cans I had on the MDC TP for free. I figured if any woman needed them for what ever reason, I'd rather it be a woman pursuing natural living.

I could not bf my first son, so I know there are woman like me out there who truly desired to, but for what ever reason could not. I've since be able to breastfeed, but it wasn't without a lot of help from a very knowledgable and dedicated IBCLC.

No TP takers, so they ended up in the trash, expired. I sort of felt bad about it, but in the end, I can't hang on to crap just b/c. I tried to find it a suitable home, it didn't work out, so the trash was a good place for it.

[tayndrewsmama]

Originally Posted by Electra375

I listed the cans I had on the MDC TP

Pssst...I don't think you're supposed to do that.