Mother Gives Birth To Baby With COVID-19 Antibodies
Mother Gives Birth To Baby With COVID-19 Antibodies A woman who was pregnant when infected with COVID has reportedly given her child antibodies against the virus. To date, the active virus has not been found in samples of fluid around babies in the womb or in breast milk A Singaporean woman who was pregnant when she was infected with coronavirus in March has reportedly given birth to a baby with antibodies against the disease, offering a new clue as to whether the infection can be transferred from mother to child. The baby, who was was born this month, does not have COVID-19 but has the virus antibodies, the Straits Times newspaper reported on Sunday, citing the mother. “My doctor suspects I have transferred my COVID-19 antibodies to him during my pregnancy,” Celine Ng-Chan told the paper. Ng-Chan had been mildly ill from the disease and was discharged from hospital after two and a half weeks, it said. Ng-Chan and the National University Hospital, where she gave birth, did not immediat...