if h i v positive mother becomes pregnent ,baby may get infected or may not .why so/?

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I can't believe how many misconceptions and wrong answers there are to this question! No wonder there's so much ignorance on this site.

Babies do not share blood with their mothers through the womb, because a baby isn't always the same blood type as a mother. As with blood transfusions or ANY blood sharing procedure, it is FATAL if someone with incompatible blood receives the blood of another person.

Babies get oxygen and food through the umbilical cord, but not blood - their massively reproducing internal cells form their own blood (kind of like how the human body has millions of blood cells dying every year and millions more are created from scratch genetically).

Because HIV is transmitted through sexual fluids and blood, the only way the baby can get it is if, when passing through the mother's vaginal canal, an open cut/injury on the baby or any of its orifices can come into contact with the mother's blood or vaginal fluids. Then the HIV cell enters the baby's body.

The baby actually goes through shock when its born, and there is a massive amount of fluids, especially the mother's, and the baby does get a cut or scrape during birth sometimes, and of course its very easy for the mother's blood and fluids to enter the child's sexual organs as they obviously have to pass through the mother's blood.

The baby does NOT share blood with its mother. That's why children can have a different blood type than their mother - and that's why they can have rn+ or rn- blood (negative/positive factor). Occassionaly this difference in blood type, especially the rn+/-, can cause a dangerous situation as well as the blood types can be so incompatible it might pose a risk if the child's and mother's blood is even interchanged during birth!

PS It's incredibly likely the baby will have HIV though since it does go through contact in birth and through breast milk with the HIV virus.

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just depends on the birth, and whether her blood reacts with the infants

Yes if Mom has HIV POSITIVE...the baby will be born with it..the reason is that it is in the BLOOD...and child will receive that blood when in womb

Chances of getting inflected very high. Same bloodstream

100% pro!

the HIV mother normally passes it on to the baby.

depends on the birth, and whether her blood reacts with the infants
i seen it in movie in hbo on india

the baby may get hiv as the blood of the mother is present in the baby

yes

the only way a pregnant mother can infect her baby is thru a vaginall birth she neeeds to have a c-section to minimize the risk of hiv

It depends wheter the placenta tears before the umbilical cord is cut, causing infected blood to transfer to the baby.
Sometimes this doesnt happen, and you also get drugs to prevent it.
It is not transfered during pregnancy, only during birth.

HIV can cross the placenta, but the main legacy of the search for a cure and treatment for AIDS is that AZT and other drugs can block this placental transfer so that with proper medical attention and drug treatment, and HIV positive mother may give birth to a child free from HIV.

Without treatment, it is still possible for this to occur, but it goes from being a highly likely outcome, to a very rare occurrence.

When driving drunk, you may get into a wreck or you may not. Certainly the odds are more likely that you will but it's not a given. With HIV, we sure hope the baby is not infected.

Ya, the baby also becomes HIV +ve, as the virus gets into the baby thru the placenta

the chances of being infected the feotus are much more possible positive.
90% cases shows the birth of hiv + baby

Definitely get infected via the blood passing through the umbilical cord. After birth through the milk.

200% the baby gets infected
it is just due to transmission of blood from mother to baby

Ultimately it depends upon the severity of mothers infection , mothers defence systems, and also the efficacy of the treatment mother is undergoing.
Nobody in the human race will be able to predict the outcome in such a case...

Chances are very high. Because the child gets its nutrition and development from its mother in her womb. When the child is connected through blood supply from her mother, the child gets naturally affected if the mother is HIV positive.

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