• Chlamydia

It is a curable bacterial infection that gets transmitted sexually.

When You Are Pregnant

If you go into labour with this viral infection, you will definitely pass it on to your child. If it happens somewhere during your pregnancy cycle, it can cause miscarriage, pre-term labour and can also give you urinary infection post delivery.

And if it gets passed on to your baby and if left untreated it can develop into an eye infection or pneumonia.

What to Do

This can be treated with an antibiotic. And it is best treated when you are pregnant rather than post delivery. Treating it beforehand reduces the risk of the bacteria being passed on to your baby. And as far as possible, go for protected sex. Use condoms.

• Syphilis

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection where the sore is usually painless but highly infectious.

When You Are Pregnant

Syphilis can get passed on to your baby through the placenta during pregnancy or by contact with the sore during childbirth.

What to Do

Although the symptoms usually clear up with treatment in five to six weeks.  However, the infection remains in the body and can get carried on by your blood stream to your baby.

Therefore it is necessary that you get it treated immediately, as soon as you realise you have the infection.