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Hi there I would say go for it. I have had 2 beautiful kids one daugther that is 10years old and a 9 month old son who are both negative. I would not trade the experince for nothing in the world. I am planning on maybe having one more. As long as you take your meds. like you are suppose to you and your baby will be fine. Just make sure you go to an OB that speacialize in HIV treatment. Good Luck On you Journey to become a parent. I will keep you in my prayers.

yes there is hope, i can say from experance i have a child being poz myself and partner, and he is well. you will have to be on treatment during your pregnance, after the baby is born there is a three months couse of meds. for the baby. the chances of the child is one percent if u have a c-section and it will be grater if u have a natural delivery. so there is hope.

I am positive and my husband is negative and we have been having trouble conciveing is that normal for an hiv positive woman??

when my husband and i were pregnant, we did not know we were poz.
about a year and a half after her birth we found out.

i was undetectable and he was at aids status.

our daughter is negative to this day (she is almost 6).
HIV negative children are very possible.

good luck

I am currently 12 weeks pregnant, HIV positive, and living with an undetectable viral load... At this point I am planning to deliver vaginally, I'm not worried about transmission... however, if my numbers change I will need to reevaluate the method of delivery.

I am pregnant, and undetectable. My husband has remained negative. I am on arv 's too. But, I must mention that I am currently being "investigated" for being misdiagnosed with HIV.

Nobody has yet addressed the point that it is very different with a HIV+ father and HIV- mother than visa versa. If the mother is HIV- and remains uninfected, there is no risk to the infant at all, and no need for Cesarian delivery or drugs etc for the mother. It is very possible for a HIV+ father and HIV- mother to have children with very low or zero risk to the mother. Drug treatment so the father has undetectable viral load greatly reduces the risk of the wife becoming infected while of having children the natural way. But there are sperm washing methods and artificial insemination which can reduce the risk to almost zero. To go to absolutely zero risk, the could could consider using a sperm donor, or adopting children.

Anyway, with drug treatment and/or sperm washing, the risk may be low enough that the couple would consider it to be acceptable risk. Each person has their own idea of what risk they consider to be acceptable, so that is an individual choice. Some of the factors to consider are the health insurance policy of the wife, and whether or not she has a job that would be impacted if she did get infected. Even if the risk is the same, the impact of becoming infected is not equal for all people.