{"id":233,"date":"2016-01-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/ttfa\/?page_id=233"},"modified":"2016-03-04T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:15:04","slug":"4-mothers-health-and-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/6-hiv-and-pregnancy\/4-mothers-health-and-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"6. 4 Mother&#8217;s health and pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A mother&#8217;s own health (and her own treatment) is the most important consideration to ensure a healthy baby.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Overall, treatment for an HIV positive pregnant woman will be the same as for any HIV positive adult.<\/p>\n<p>It is important that the mother receives support from an experienced healthcare team during her pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Antenatal counselling for HIV positive women should always include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting treatment, if a woman is diagnosed in pregnancy.<\/li>\n<li>ART and pregnancy, if she is already taking it when she finds out she is pregnant.<\/li>\n<li>Advice about preventing vertical transmission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"own\">HIV<\/h2>\n<p>Pregnancy does not make a woman\u2019s own health related to HIV get any worse. It will not make HIV progress any faster or slower.<\/p>\n<p>HIV treatment (ART) actually stops HIV progressing and puts it on hold.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"CD4\">CD4 count<\/h2>\n<p>Pregnancy might cause a drop in a woman\u2019s CD4 count.<\/p>\n<p>This is can vary a lot but it is usually about 50 cells. It is not a real reduction in CD4 cells but the same amount in a larger amount of blood (which increases in pregnancy). The drop is only temporary. The\u00a0CD4 count will normally return to the\u00a0pre-pregnancy level soon after the baby is born.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes if a woman starts ART in pregnancy her CD4 count does not increase very much, even though the viral load goes down. The CD4 count catches up after the baby is born.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"opportunistic\">Opportunistic infections<\/h2>\n<p>In general, pregnant women need the same treatment to prevent opportunistic infections as people who are not pregnant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother&#8217;s own health (and her own treatment) is the most important consideration to ensure a healthy baby. Overall, treatment for an HIV positive pregnant woman will be the same as for any HIV positive adult. It is important that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":224,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}