Herpes is a disease that is very hard for a person to accept. It causes not only physical pains to the infected person but also emotional pains as well. But what has happened to you can no longer be undone. The only thing that can be done now is to prevent the outbreaks from recurring. You should not worry about it very much after the first outbreak; the first outbreak will be the most painful. After the first outbreak, the recurrence will only happen fewer to some. To some, it may happen 4 to 6 times a year.



However the effects of herpes to women are more painful and have more severe results, especially for those that are pregnant. So it is a must for women to learn to practice healthier sex. They can just try to be wiser about how they practice sex. If the women plan on having children, they should be more wise about their sex life, because if they are not their babies will be affected too. I'm sure that any parent would not want to put their kids at 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.