{"id":20224,"date":"2022-07-16T15:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20224"},"modified":"2022-07-16T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T15:56:12","slug":"can-i-breastfeed-for-the-first-few-days-and-then-switch-to-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20224","title":{"rendered":"Can I breastfeed for the first few days and then switch to formula?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on your pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>If you intend to switch to exclusively formula feeding after these 4 days it is safe to breastfeed to begin with. If you are going to mix feed (breastfeed while on formula) there is increased risk of transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Baby will be on their own medication for a short while. This is regardless of how they are fed. <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19891\">This is explained more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I&#8217;m lovely my question today is that I&#8217;m HIV+ and on my meds. Just find out when I was 4 weeks pregnant now I&#8217;m almost 8 weeks now I&#8217;m thinking of breastfeeding my baby just for 4 days after birth. I will switch to formula feeding after. Will this affect my baby I don&#8217;t want to put him\/her at any risk. I will only be breastfeeding the baby only when I&#8217;m in the hospital. <\/p>\n<p>And will my baby need medication if I&#8217;m feeding him or her formula. I will be grateful if you can answer my question thanks in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}