In reply to this:
>I received a call from a midwife in our area about a client she has who is
> adopting an infant who has AIDS (antibodies anyway).  She wants to nurse
> this new baby, but she is presently nursing her baby.... so she wants to
> know if her other baby could acquire AIDS from the adopted infant from her
> nursing!  Any ideas on this one?
> Linda Rosetti RN, IBCLC
> Lewiston, ID

Nan Jolly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>She needs to have the baby with HIV antibodies tested for HIV - viral load.
If baby only has antibodies acquired from the mother, and no virus, then
there is no danger of infection.  If there is HIvirus present, then there is
a risk of cross infection.  In which case I would not breastfeed the baby,
despite knowing that it would benefit the adopted baby.<

Would this mother consider pumping her milk for the adopted baby?
That way, the baby would still get the benefits of the milk, without
her biological child (or her) risking the possibility of acquiring
AIDS.

norma, who also recognises that there are many benefits acquired
through the actual act of breastfeeding as well as through the milk.

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