I am pregnant and just found out I have hep c, it can effect the baby but it is a low risk 1-5% to pass it on to the baby, every thing should be okay

I was your age when I was pregnant with my son. I had hep c, but I didn't know it at the time.

My son is fine. All grown up with kids of his own. And, no hep c or other problems. He's been the love of my life.

Personally, I think you need to be more concerned with taking methadone while you are pregnant. Medicaid, or no medicaid, wait until you are off the methadone before you think about getting pregnant.

Besides hurting the baby, until you get off the methadone, you're still addicted to drugs.

Edwina

I was a iv heroin user when I became pregnant with my second child. I started the methadone program once I found out I was pregnant. But after hearing many horror stories of how much more addicting methadone was than heroin, I stopped taking it after only one week and had very minimal withdrawals. Anyway, when you get in the methadone program they give you a medical screening, and that is when I found out I had hep c. My doctor told me that there is a 1-5% chance that the baby could be born with it. My daughter was born last october and at her 2 week check up she tested positive for it. Her doctor told me that she will be periodically checked for it for up to 18 months because in a lot of cases with babies being born with it, it sometimes "goes away" after about 18 months.

My father has hep c and my sister and I turned out fine. I dont know if theres a higher risk if it's the mother that has it, though.

There is a higher risk if the mother has it because she passes on those antibodies to the child. That's why babies will be re-checked for it for up to 18 months, because by that time the baby has had enough time to build it's own antibodies. In the majority of these cases, the baby will not test positive for hep c once it has it's own. Unfortunately that's not true in every case.