{"id":15412,"date":"2020-01-21T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T09:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=15412"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:43","slug":"why-cant-i-breastfeed-my-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/15412","title":{"rendered":"Why can’t I breastfeed my baby?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n

Feeding guidlines for babies vary depending on where it is that someone lives. In the UK breastfeeding isn’t recommended and this is even if a woman’s viral load is undetectable. There’s info about this here: https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy<\/a><\/p>\n

Though being undetectable means you can’t transmit HIV when having sex without a condom, it may not apply to infant feeding, this is why there a need to be cautious: https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/34455<\/a><\/p>\n

All babies who are born to positive mothers must be given ARVs, this is a precautionary measure as the pregnancy guide explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been told by my clinic that when I have my baby I need to give them medication. I’ve also been told that I shouldn’t breastfeed. I’m on treatment and my viral load is undetectable so I don’t understand why my baby needs to be given medication. Also why can’t I breastfeed? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-children","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412","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=15412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25132,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15412\/revisions\/25132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}