Consumer Reports Best Baby Products Book Giveaway and Baby Formula Coupons

November 15, 2009 Comment

***This giveaway is now over. Congrats to the randomly chosen winner, Laureen, aka MamandeEDS on Twitter! Laureen, please check your email for the winner notification I sent you.***
I’m sure you’re familiar with Consumer Reports, the organization that blows the lids off all the BS and brings consumers the information they need about the validity of claims made by manufacturers as well as the usability, safety and efficacy of products.

Today I want to let you know, my dear readers, that MamaDivas.com is giving away a copy of the 368-page baby product guide Consumer Reports Best Baby Products, 10th Edition ($16.95 value) (giveaway information is at the end of this post)

Of course we all know that "breast is best", but when breastfeeding is not feasible or possible, moms turn to baby formula, which is one of the costliest expenses of parenting. According to the Consumer Reports Best Baby Products guide, store brand formula is just as nutritious for babies as nationally advertised, brand-name baby formula is. If you’ve ever stopped to compare the prices of baby formula, you know that many times the difference between store brand vs. brand names like Similac or Enfamil is quite substantial, up to 50% depending on the establishment.

This is great news for all new parents who choose or need to formula feed, but especially so for those same mothers under the WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program. Because of the recent positive increase in breastfeeding awareness and the support that surrounds feeding babies mother’s milk, WIC guidelines have recently changed to further promote breastfeeding. I think that’s definitely a wonderful initiative by WIC, though as a result of the changes, subsidies provided by the organization towards infant formulas are reduced up to 26%, which may possibly affect mothers benefiting from the program.

What with the worries about the state of the economy and the parsimonious personalities that those worries have created over the past year, the fact that store brand baby formula is just as good for baby as brand-name infant formula is awesome news for all parents, whether you’re pinching pennies to save or just to get by.

And now for the best part:

You can sign up for coupons from StoreBrandFormula.com so can save on store brand infant formula from Walmart, CVS, Babies ‘R’ Us and other retailers. Don’t forget to watch this video featuring Dr. Barbara Levine of Weill Cornell Medical College as she talks about how you can save money on infant formula by buying store brand without sacrificing quality.

Consumer Reports Best Baby Products Book Giveaway Guidelines:

The entry period for this giveaway will run from Nov. 15, 2009 to Nov. 20, 2009 at 11pm EST.

There’s a few ways you can enter. You can do each method once, and each will earn you one entry:

Leave a comment on this post with a valid email address and your feelings on store brand vs. nationally advertised baby formulas since Consumer Reports has found that store brand is just as nutritious
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US addresses only, please. You must be 18 years of age or older to enter. No purchase necessary, void where prohibited. Please also see general guidelines set forth here.

*This wonderful giveaway is made possible thanks to PBM Products and MamaDivas.com’s affiliation with Team Mom*

P.S. It’s not that we don’t care about ourselves, but did you notice that once we pass the threshold into parenthood, our awareness of product safety increases? By tenfold, at least! Before pregnancy we fancy ourselves fairly immortal, but once the wonderful title of parent is bestowed upon us, anything and everything that comes into contact with our children is checked, inspected and rechecked.