Perrigo Nutritionals *GIVEAWAY*

I am a breastfeeding mom. I have breastfed all three of my children. However, with my oldest I was working full-time and even pumping I couldn't keep up with her needs. So my husband and I made the difficult decision to add formula to her diet along with the breast milk. I will admit, I refused to purchase a store brand formula and instead opted for a name brand. We were poor newlyweds, my husband was still in school and my meager salary was pathetic. We definitely felt the pinch in our finances from purchasing formula. I was happily no longer working when my second daughter came along and I was able to breastfeed her on demand for 21 long months. And now, here I sit with a beautiful 11 month old in my lap, fast asleep after a nursing session. But I have a dilemma with her. She wasn't gaining weight fast enough. She was nursing several times a day, eating baby food and a few real foods like avocados and bananas and nothing was working. The doctor suggested PediaSure and adding some formula to her diet. Now, we are making more money than we were nearly 7 years ago when we made the decision to feed our oldest formula, but we've added 2 more kids and we were willing to try out store brand formula for this. And for the sake of honesty, I'll admit, she won't drink it. But she won't drink brand name formula either. The girl just likes her mommy milk...and the PediaSure. She's gaining, so we're not pressing the issue. I'm sure had we started it earlier she might have taken it. But the day the doctor suggested we add formula to her diet I was offered the opportunity to review a formula from Perrigo Nutritionals, the makers of Walmart'a Parent’s Choice, Target's Up & Up, Kroger's Comforts and Sam’s Club's Simply Right brand formulas. I thought this was great, and for others I know it's fantastic because one of you will win some formula and that's awesome!

First, here's a little bit of information from the Perrigo Nutritionals “Brand” New Mom Study:

Baby-related advertisements strike an emotional chord with moms – nearly one in four feel overwhelmed (23%) and one in five feel anxious (20%) or confused (20%)

53% of moms admit thoughts of their baby product budget plague them on a daily basis

37% of moms feel guilty if they cannot afford a specific product for their babies
Moms are willing to purchase store brand over the counter medicine for their baby (42%) and store brand pharmaceuticals (44%), but only 21% of moms are willing to buy store brand infant formula.

For more information on store brand formulas from Perrigo please click here.

And now, like I mentioned above, one of you will win some formula from Perrigo Nutritionals as well as some promotional items.


To enter simply leave a comment on this post telling me if you've used formula with your children.

If you'd like more chances to win you can do the following after doing the above requirement, leave a comment for each entry:

- Follow @RedSoxMommy on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway, you can do this once per day, just leave a comment with the link to your tweet each time (1 entry each time). Feel free to copy and paste the following tweet:

#WIN a Perrigo Nutritionals prize pack @RedSoxMommy #giveaway ends 3/10 #MyBlogSpark http://bit.ly/zKHCAA

- Follow Red Sox Mommy publicly on Google Friend Connect. (1 entry)
- Blog about this giveaway, leave the link to your post in the comments. (5 entries, leave 5 comments)

Disclaimer: You must have a US mailing address. You must leave a valid email address so I can contact you if you win. I will not use the addresses for any other purpose. You must follow the first entry requirement before any extra entries will be counted as valid. No "count me in" style comments will be qualified to win, please follow the directions. You have until March 10, 2012 at 11:59pm MT to enter. I will choose the winner at random soon after that time and s/he will have 72 hours to respond to the winning notification or a new winner will be chosen by the same method.

Good luck!

Disclosure: Prize pack, information, and giveaway have been provided by Perrigo Nutritionals through MyBlogSpark.