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If mother is covid positive. And baby is 10 days old. Can she keep her baby with her? Or there will be chances for baby also to get positive?
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Baby can be taken care of by the mother if any other caretaker is not available. Mother has to wear a mask all the time and follow hand hygiene while handling the baby. She can breastfeed the baby.
There are chances of baby getting covid from mother but intensity of disease is mild. So you have to look into the pros and cons of keeping the baby with the mother or separating from her.
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She can keep baby with her, but with barrier nursing,
Like wear mask while feeding baby, touch baby after proper hand washing.
As brest feeding not contraindicated in such condition.
If mother have symptoms like fever cough cold then express brest milk and feed baby by katori spoon till symptoms resolve
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By now baby might have already got infected from mother, still mother can feed her and handle her baby. Only precautions you need to take always wear mask, avoid kissing, wash your hands frequently.
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Dr. Maheshwari Jadhav
Pediatrician
8 yrs exp
Kolhapur
Hi. No need to worry. It s best to keep the baby with the mother. You can breastfeed the baby like before. Just take care that u wear mask while feeding. Do frequent hand wash before carrying the baby. Just keep looking for any symptoms in the baby like fever, cough, decreased feeding, difficult breathing. In that case u ll have to go to doctor. Take care of yourself.
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Dr. Maheshwari D
Pediatrician
10 yrs exp
Salem
1.It's recommended that mother wears double mask while continuing to breastfeed the baby
and she has to sanitize or wash hands before handling the baby
2.some other caretaker handles the baby instead of her ,except during breast-feeding.
3.Better to avoid keeping baby and mother in same room
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