It’s extremely rare and research suggests the infants have mild cases of the virus.
As the pandemic continues, there's now growing medical evidence that parents can pass COVID-19 to babies in utero. adds to growing medical proof that birthing parents can pass the virus to babies in the womb. It’s a shift in opinion months in the making and one that doctors note is an extremely rare phenomenon.
Doctors in France confirmed that a baby boy conceived by a mother with COVID-19 in a Paris hospital had contracted the virus while in utero, according to in peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Communications on Tuesday. Both the mother and her baby have since recovered.,” lead researcher Dr. Daniele De Luca told the Guardian. “Clinicians must be aware that this may happen. It’s not common, that’s for sure, but it may happen and it must be considered in the clinical workout.”last week about a baby girl with COVID-19. Testing in both instances showed that the novel coronavirus spread from the parent’s blood and into the placenta.
In the rare cases of babies born with COVID-19, they appear to have mild cases of the disease. Only two of the mothers’ children in Italy tested positive, but were asymptomatic. The Texas-based girl’s symptoms settled down a few days after birth and she was discharged from medical care after three weeks. The boy born in Paris recovered without treatment.and gradually despite all this, and this confirms that the disease is milder in early infancy,” De Luca told the New York Times.
In the pandemic’s early stages, Canadian birth professionals only stressed the potential for viral transmission between recent parents and babies through respiratory droplets. Currently,MORE ON PARENTING
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