I hate my insurance company.

I'd always planned on breastfeeding my son.  I nursed my daughter until she was 14 months old, and I enjoyed the experience once we overcame our initial difficulties.  My son has been a dream nurser - persistent and highly effective.

Unfortunately, he was just diagnosed with a severe milk protein allergy, despite my having eliminated just about every speck of dairy from my diet.  As a result, his pediatrician put him on Alimentum (an extremely expensive hypoallergenic formula) for the next week to see if he improves.  If he does get better, we'll have two choices:

1) I can essentially go vegan (which may not work anyway), or

2) We can keep him on Alimentum indefinitely.

I'm already crushed about the prospect of not being able to continue nursing my baby boy.  But to add insult to injury, I just checked our insurance company's website and it turns out that they won't cover one red cent of the exhorbitantly priced formula.  (Some companies will cover it - that's why I checked.)  The stuff costs $26 for a 16-oz can.  That's more than double the cost of a regular can of formula.

We make 'too much money' to qualify for WIC, but can still barely afford the stuff.  I'm so mad I could have a fit over it.  I hate insurance companies.  We pay through the nose for coverage and now that we really need them, they don't come through.  I also hate formula companies.  I feel like they have me in a total chokehold.  :(