Janet Mbugua Resorts To Feeding Her Son With Formula Milk Following Problems With Her Breasts

The Citizen TV anchor says she was compelled to feed baby Ethan Huru Ndichu with formula milk after her breasts terribly ‘let her down.’

Baby Ethan was sucking his mother’s breasts dry yet he still couldn’t get enough to snuff out his unending hunger.

Janet Mbugua says her baby would wake up after every 45 minutes to breastfeed. Her milk wasn’t enough for her son and yet she wasn’t producing enough.

“Often time he would fall asleep on my bosom. But I grew concerned; he would sleep for 45 minutes, at most, and wake up with raging hunger again. He would then breastfeed for an hour and we would repeat this pattern. At times this got really tiring and I was terribly sore, as mentioned earlier. But more than that, I wondered why he didn’t seem to be getting full and began to worry that I wasn’t producing enough milk for his seemingly insatiable appetite.” Revealed Janet Mbugua.

The Citizen TV anchor says she resorted to drinking a lot of fluid to boost her milk production but it still didn’t work.

“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.”[sic]

Janet started feeding Ethan with formula milk after her husband Eddie Ndichu and mother advised her after seeing how she was struggling with breast milk.

Formula milk worked magic on baby Ethan as he slept for two long hours on the first day he was fed formula milk.

“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.” Wrote Janet in part.