Free Baby Formula

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09 Feb 2007 12:21 PM

Enfamil is offering a coupon for free formula. You can choose from one of three different formulas: Nutramigen Lipil, which claims to resolve colic symptoms often within 48 hours, Enfamil Gentlease Lipil, which has easy to digest proteins, and Enfamil A.R. Lipil, which is thicken with rice starch to reduce spit up.

To get your free formula, print out your coupon and bring it to your pediatrician's office, where they will redeem the coupon for your free formula. The office will then present you with your recommended choice from the three offers.

This brings up some other ways to obtain free formula. For example, you can also use this coupon opportunity to ask the office for other samples. Pediatrician's offices are bombarded with formula, since every company wants them to recommend their brand.

Hospitals are another good source of free formula. Many will send you home with cases of formula, if you ask. Again, they usually get it free from the formula companies.

Other ways to score some free formula include asking friends and co-workers. You may find moms who overbought their formula, and would be happy to give it away rather than throw it away.

Although I'm an exclusively breastfeeding mom, I am still inundated with formula samples, cans of powdered formula and liquid formula, and tons of formula checks. Although I have never signed up for a formula offer, the formula companies found me anyway. I have given all of this formula, in its various forms, away to friends who use the various brands. Maybe they got my name from the hospital?

Just to be sure that you will get free formula direct from the companies, sign up for those formula mailing lists. That is the best way to get the checks and offers in the mail.

Finally, you may be eligible for free formula from the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. You can check the website for income requirements and information about applying to the program.

Here are the links:

Free coupon for Enfamil formula

Welcome Addition (Similac Sign Up)

Bright Beginnings

WIC program

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JennBUT (232) 09 Feb 2007 11:57 AM

AWESOME! Thanks! I have received some of the formula checks, also, but we have used them all so this is great! Thanks for the tip.

kimchee67 (16781) 09 Feb 2007 12:39 PM

Thanks for the ideas. I EP, but I get so many of those checks and samples in the mail. I give them to friends who use them. I never signed up for anything and I BF so I wondered why I receive free formula and the ones who actually use it don't. Now, I can pass this info along to them!

Mary Ann Romans (26876) 09 Feb 2007 12:49 PM

I'm glad that the article was useful! Thanks for your comments.

Mary Ann Romans (26876) 09 Oct 2007 04:01 PM

Update: One formula company told me that you can request free formula by calling the company and requesting samples.

Valorie Delp (49340) 09 Oct 2007 05:12 PM

Yes, every baby formula company gives away free samples and happily too. It's totally worth it for them bc they're supplying you with a sample of a product that you are completely dependent on (in theory) for at least the next year. So if you ask while you're pregnant you're likely to get twice as much!!!

Mary Ann Romans (26876) 04 Dec 2007 06:53 AM

Many companies are now marketing toddler formula as well.