Citizen TV’s Papa Shirandula actress Jackie Nyaminde alias ‘Wilbroda’ has revealed how her former nanny who was HIV positive, once breastfed her baby boy while 8 months old when she was away for work in Mombasa.
Speaking to Parents’ magazine recently, Wilbroda says she came to discover this through a call from an anonymous neighbour who told her that her househelp frequently breastfed her baby whenever he cried.
Nyaminde adds that she immediately took an emergency flight back to Nairobi where she took her son for testing. Luckily, her son wasn’t infected.
She disclosed that she received a call that the house help was breastfeeding the child to make him stop crying.
“When my son was around 8 months old, I had to travel to Mombasa on a work assignment and so I left him under the care of a nanny whom I had trusted so much. While in Mombasa, I received an anonymous call from a person who informed me that my house help breastfed my son whenever he cried,” said Wilbroda.
Horrified, she took the first flight back to Nairobi.The radio host then rushed the baby to the hospital where tests were conducted on the baby and found out he was okay.
Filled with anger, Wilbroda says, she fired the nanny the following day.
“I didn’t sleep that night and had to rush to the hospital around midnight to have my son tested. Luckily he was fine. To cut the long story short I fired the nanny the following day. It took immense self-control to restrain myself from harming her.”