{"id":9307,"date":"2013-09-06T06:25:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T06:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=9307"},"modified":"2013-09-06T06:25:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T06:25:39","slug":"can-i-breastfeed-while-waiting-for-test-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/9307","title":{"rendered":"Can I breastfeed while waiting for test window?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>This is a good question and the asnwer will depend on the time you were last at risk and when you had your HIV test.<\/p>\n<p>It will also depend on the advice from your doctor as she or he will know more about your circumstances and level of risk.<\/p>\n<p>If you tested negative during the pregnancy and havent; been at risk since then, you are probably HIv negative and so breastfeefing would be fine.<\/p>\n<p>If however, you became HIV positive because you had sex without condoms during the pregnancy, then your viral load cold be very high and this would put your baby at high risk.<\/p>\n<p>If you are able to access a viral load test yourself, this would be be a quicker way to know whether you are HIV positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband tested positive and I tested negative when I was pregnant .<\/p>\n<p>I now have a baby can I still breast bleed my baby without the risk of  the baby getting positive, while I wait for the window period?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-pregnancy","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}