{"id":21850,"date":"2023-05-25T11:33:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=21850"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:23","slug":"will-my-baby-be-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/21850","title":{"rendered":"Will my baby be positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on having a baby.<\/p>\n<p>Are you and\/or your partner on treatment? and do you know your viral load?<\/p>\n<p>Does baby have their own treatment? Usually baby will be given nevirapine for the first few weeks after birth. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/infant-meds-when-the-mother-is-living-with-hiv\">explained more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Being HIV positive does not mean baby will also be HIV positive. Being on treatment yourselves and baby having their own will both significantly reduce the risk of transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Many HIV positive women all over the world will have healthy HIV negative babies.<\/p>\n<p>How is breastfeeding going? and is this the only way that baby is being fed? Before 6 months if you are using breastfeeding and formula together this can increase the risk of transmission. After 6 months this risk is no longer present.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m HIV positive and so is my partner. We are not using protection and I&#8217;m breastfeeding. Will my baby be positive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21850","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\/21850","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=21850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21851,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions\/21851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}