Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata
A pregnant Singaporean woman, infected by the coronavirus gave birth to a baby with antibodies against the virus, giving insight to the fact if the virus can be transformed from mother to child.
The women’s doctors suspect that the mother, who got infected by the by the virus during March, transferred her antibodies to her child during pregnancy. She along with her mother and daughter contracted COVID-19 after returning from a family trip during March.
Researchers at the World Health Organisation (WHO) due to lack of scientific evidence could not confirm whether it is possible or not for the infected mother to transmit the virus to her foetus, during pregnancy. Till the recent time, traces of the active virus had not been found in amniotic fluids or breast milk.
Transmission of this new novel corona virus from a pregnant mother to her foetus is deemed rare by doctors. Though medical practitioners in China have reported the decline over time of COVID-19 antibodies in newborns born to infected mothers.
Latest evidence shows that whether the baby gets Covid-19 from his mom isn’t influenced by the mode of delivery, feeding choice such as breast or bottle feeding, or if the mother and baby stayed in the same room after delivery.
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