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Trying to conceive with HIV ?
Posted: 01-12-08 09:49am
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had a chance of being born with HIV would
you still try to conceive? Just a curious
question because I have learned a lot
about HIV from a project I did at school
and this is something I was wondering.
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love_pinkish
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Posted: 01-13-08 20:05pm
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that would be a very hard decision to
make. i really don't know what i would do
if I was in the situation. I hope i
wouldn't have to be either.
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Tryingforalittleangel
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Posted: 01-13-08 20:40pm
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I dont know , thats a really tough
question, Wanting a baby can just eat your
heart up, but as a mother you never want
your baby to suffer and I would think that
being born with HIV would be suffering!
Just an all around hard question
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ladylee70
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Posted: 01-13-08 20:52pm
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Personally, I wouldn't. I would be a
foster parent but I wouldn't have my own.
If I conceived, I would have the child
because abortion is not for me.
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Moonmomma
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Posted: 01-13-08 23:39pm
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there are way to have your own child with
out passing one the hiv. you coudl alwayws
get a serigate mom. if you can aford one
or you could adoped but i dotn think i
would got throw a full prgo by my self
knowing i could pass something like that
on to some one so small. i guess it all
depends on the person. if you had got prgo
and carried full turm there are things
they can do to help prevent it from
passing on. there are meds and you can
have a planed c section. but im not shure
if i could do it that way or not.
I think thats the hardest question i have
bean asked in a long time lol
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young Girl
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Posted: 01-14-08 00:00am
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no
no no no
people die of hiv
why in the heck would you bring a child
into the world when they have adisease
that will kill them?
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sillyakchick
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Posted: 01-14-08 11:28am
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"why in the heck would you bring a child
into the world when they have adisease
that will kill them? "
Lots of people do. Not just HIV-Cystic
Fibrosis, etc etc. Being pregnant with a
baby and being HIV positive is a gamble,
but there are drugs that can be given that
have made definitie improvements in
outcomes for babies. Especially in South
Africa, where one in three women are HIV
pos, they have noted tht when prenatal
care is sought early, the chances of
passing the infection on to baby are
greatly reduced. Personally, though, I
would not do it.
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Cambion
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Posted: 01-14-08 12:01pm
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If I was bored enough with my life to want
to spawn and I had HIV, I wouldn't have a
kid. HIV is certainly not a fun thing to
have, and doG knows the thing would
probably contribute to the spread of the
disease when it started kissing and having
sex (if it didn't die before that age,
anyway).
It's not worth it - healthy kids irk me
badly enough, so I certainly wouldn't want
to deal with a messed up little diseased
child.
Or, if I was HIV positive and had the
money to raise a child, I'd instead donate
money to research used to try and find
cures for HIV...rather than force an
innocent kid into a lousy, embarrassing
life because I was selfish enough to breed
with the knowledge of the disease being
passed on to him/her.
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Georgia59
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Posted: 01-14-08 17:29pm
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Well, we could totally broaden this, but
they're all hard questions... cystic
fibrosis, cerebral palsy, autism, HIV,
etc.....
but maybe that's better for the abortion
debate
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young Girl
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Posted: 01-14-08 17:57pm
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if i knew there was any chance my child
would get a disease i had or was carrying
then no i would never even take the
chance. that would be selfish.
or thats what i think
also if i was pregnant and they found out
my child would be/have a disease like
cerebral palsy or womething that would
impair him or her badly enouigh i would
NOT continue the pregnancy
sillyakchick i didnt know there were drugs
that were used to help in certain
situations  thank you for
telling me that because i wasnt aware of
it before  you learn
something new every day
and for once i partially/somewhat agree
with cambion
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Posted: 01-14-08 19:16pm
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I'd never do that. I'd rather adopt.
Unless there was some HIGHLY effective way
to avoid infecting my baby.
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-Tanya-
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Posted: 01-14-08 21:27pm
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Because of the risk of passing the disease
to the child, definitely not.
Even with drugs that protect the baby I
wouldn't have a child if I had a disease
that cut my life expectancy down by such a
great amount. It would be selfish to
knowingly bring a child into a situation
where they would possibly have to watch
their parent suffer, die, and go on
without the guidance of a mother or
father.
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Birch
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Posted: 01-14-08 22:25pm
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Coincidentally, I just sat through a
lecture today by the CEO of a non profit
HIV/AIDS organization. She said that in
the past five years, her organization has
a 100% success rate of keeping babies born
from HIV+ mothers from developing
AIDS/HIV.
Here is a thread from me on this subject
back in Dec.
http://ehealthfo
rum.com/health/topic117434.html
"I have also found on google scholar
articles that indicate the average life
span after someone finds out they are HIV+
is 24 more years. It is contingent on
taking meds religiously and having a
healthy lifestyle."
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Darkmoon
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Posted: 01-15-08 03:33am
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Personally I think it's incredibly
irresponsible and selfish for people who
carry serious diseases and genetic
disorders to reproduce. If they want a
child they should adopt. However I'm not
into dictating other people's reproductive
decisions, no matter how selfish I think
they are.
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Posted: 01-29-08 18:10pm
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| sillyakchick
wrote: | "why in the heck would you
bring a child into the world when they
have adisease that will kill them? "
Lots of people do. Not just HIV-Cystic
Fibrosis, etc etc. Being pregnant with a
baby and being HIV positive is a gamble,
but there are drugs that can be given that
have made definitie improvements in
outcomes for babies. Especially in South
Africa, where one in three women are HIV
pos, they have noted tht when prenatal
care is sought early, the chances of
passing the infection on to baby are
greatly reduced. Personally, though, I
would not do
it. |
AMEN! People LIVE with HIV, they die from
AIDS, there is a huge difference! I
would...compassion is my thing and I would
welcome that baby with open arms...hugs
and kisses and lots and lots of LOVE
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little_mama_08
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Posted: 03-11-08 11:29am
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| Cambion
wrote: | If I was bored enough with
my life to want to spawn and I had HIV, I
wouldn't have a kid. HIV is certainly not
a fun thing to have, and doG knows the
thing would probably contribute to the
spread of the disease when it started
kissing and having sex (if it didn't die
before that age, anyway).
It's not worth it - healthy kids irk me
badly enough, so I certainly wouldn't want
to deal with a messed up little diseased
child.
Or, if I was HIV positive and had the
money to raise a child, I'd instead donate
money to research used to try and find
cures for HIV...rather than force an
innocent kid into a lousy, embarrassing
life because I was selfish enough to breed
with the knowledge of the disease being
passed on to
him/her. |
first, i have to say i would totally try
to conceive if i wanted a child-- the risk
factors are decreasing all the time with
modern medicine-- i know mommies with HIV
and healthy babies!!
now, comments like that hurt me....babies
are beautiful no matter what sort of
issues their are! they should never be
referred to as "things" and you act like
HIV is a deformity!-- its a virus... one
that nyone sexually active could get, one
you may have and not know it... you can
live a happy like with HIV, you choose to
have a "lousy, embarrassig life" why would
you be embarrassed of something you
couldnt help anyway?
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Paul86
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Paul86
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Posted: 03-23-08 15:55pm
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Why was my pic taken off. Monkey's are
cute too, you know.
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gugu
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Why not
Posted: 03-26-08 04:21am
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Everyone has a right to be a parent hiv or
not what matters is that one will be able
to take care and love that child as a
parent and hiv makes no difference
aspecially now that there's mother to
child prevention here is South Africa we
had succesfull birth rates of negetive
babies coming from positive mothers
....someone once said what is the use of
giving birth to a child and die and live
him motherless after 5 trs well in that
case now that there's arv's ppl with hiv
live longer to see their kids get married
...people forget that even giving birth on
it's own pos or neg is a risk you may die
on that bed so must I be scared of getting
preggies because I fear death or even fear
that after 5 yrs of giving birth I might
have a car accident and die ppl think out
of the box and be reasonable we all have
needs and disires weather hiv pos or hiv
negetive...that my opinion 
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Birch
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Posted: 03-26-08 10:50am
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Parenting is a priviledge, not a right.
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