{"id":12896,"date":"2017-04-03T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12896"},"modified":"2017-04-03T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T18:03:20","slug":"when-will-i-know-if-my-baby-is-negative-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12896","title":{"rendered":"When will I know if my baby is negative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>And congratulations on the birth of your son.<\/p>\n<p>When a woman has HIV and is pregnant, what&#8217;s important is their viral load, not the CD4 count. Though of course if this is low, this could influence the pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Its the viral load that will influence if a baby is infected or not. The lower the viral load, the lesser the risk. When you gave birth do you know what your viral load was?<\/p>\n<p>No one can tell you for sure if your baby is negative or not until they have been tested. For more about testing in babies, please see here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/hiv-negative\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\/hiv-negative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You are though doing the right thing by giving them medication, and depending on where you live, not breastfeeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave birth at home and went to clinic the next day after the  birth.  I started treatment with a CD4 of 160 when I was 5 months pregnant.  What does this mean for my sons status? I&#8217;m not breastfeeding and I&#8217;m giving him 1.5ml of nevirapine as directed at the clinic. He weighed 2.7kg then 2.9kg after 5days. I want to know what the chances are of him being positive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}