Citizen TV pretty anchor Janet Mbugua has revealed she is feeding her son Etan Huru Ndichu with formula milk.
Janet says she was compelled to use formula milk after her breasts failed to produce enough milk for her son.
She says Huru would wake up after every 45 minutes to breastfeed. She resorted to drinking lots of fluids but still she couldn’t produce enough milk.
Janet says she started feeding Huru with formula milk after her husband and mother encouraged her to do so and to her surprise her baby started sleeping for hours.
“I doubled my fluid intake and everything else I was advised to; soup (mostly), porridge, warm water, juice, Ovaltine…name it, I tried it. Even the widely advised dill seeds. At some point I tried the drug Motillium! While I was producing a fairly good amount of breastmilk (on a good day I could express about 300 mils), I quickly realised that I wasn’t going to be one of those mothers who would be able to exclusively breastfeed my son for the recommended 6 months. Baby Huru wasn’t getting full enough and my husband advised that we try a formula top up. He could see how discouraged and exhausted I was. My mother had to remind me that I, too, was formula fed and I turned out okay! I fought the decision initially but after we saw Huru sleep for two hours for the first time, we realised he needed that top up.” Janet wrote in part.
