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Herpes is a type of disease that can’t be cured, all we can do is to prevent the outbreaks from recurring. Usually the first outbreak is the most painful. Herpes not only causes physical pains, but also emotional pains, it is hard for a person to accept that they have this disease.

To women who are pregnant, the effect of herpes usually are more painful. They must be wiser about how they do their sex activities, they should be careful if they don’t want the baby affected by the disease. I believe there are no parents that would want to put their babies to any health risk.

Herpes virus is a great risk to infants because the disease can spread to the infant during delivery. Because a woman who has genital will have the virus on her birth canal and cause neonatal herpes.

Another way for the herpes to be spread to the baby is when she is kissed by an infected person during the babies first few weeks of being alive. If the baby is kissed with a person who has cold sores or oral herpes the baby will be infected. If a person who had touched a person with a cold sore and then touches a baby may cause herpes too, but it is a rare situation.

If you are a woman who has herpes, you should not panic about the health your baby. You should just be concerned and worried so that your baby can avoid herpes. This is because according to research that less than .1% of babies are born with neonatal herpes from 25 to 30% of pregnant women with herpes.

The babies will be more at risk from neonatal pregnancy if the mother has contacted the genital herpes on her late stages of pregnancy. This happens because a newly infected mother will not have enough antibodies during her late stages of pregnancy. Therefore the baby will have no natural protection. New herpes infection is also very active, so the chances of the virus to be on the birth canal are very large.