Comments on: Genital Warts and Pregnancy – A Must Read Guide

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:35:25 +0000

I am a mother who was diagnosed with HPV while pregnant. I will try to answer a few questions to the best of my ability.

1) Does cryo treatment hurt? I haven’t tried it on genital warts per sey. I had 2 biopsied and what they did was numbed me a little (bullshit) and then cut them off, and used nitro to seal the resulting cut (cauterize it). It was horribly painful. I have dealt with regular warts my whole life- cryo treatment stings like a SOB and I don’t think I would want to do it on my sensative lady bits. Am I a wuss? Depends. I did natural child birth, no pain meds and toughed it out- but I whimpered when they put in the IV… a lot.

2) Transmission – It is theorized that mothers pass HPV to their children. Personally I think this is how I got mine because I checked with all my past partners and no one seemed to have HPV, yet my mother told me she had skin tags that might have been HPV. I was born C-section, so if I got them from mom, C-section isn’t the solution. IMPORTANT NOTE: There are LOTS of different strains of warts, find out what kind you have before you make any major decisions. The kind I have are not cancer-causing, and are also not the kind that cause throat/eye/voicebox warts. Risk to my child was minimal, so I chose not to have a c-section unless I absolutely needed it.

3) C-section – C-section is only really reccomended for when internal warts reach sized that block the birth canal. Seriously, this is a major surgery with plenty of its own risks. Find out what strain you have.

4) What happened after birth? – My daughter is 2.5 years old and perfectly fine. My warts fell off on their own within a month of giving birth. I haven’t had an outbreak since. I’m on this site because I am pregnant again, and they might come back.

Do more research. Be careful with what your doctor tells you. They have to be careful so they don’t get sued and are often willing to take unneccessary precautions to the extreme in hopes to avoid such. American medical is pretty crazy- arm yourself with knowledge.

I’m looking into other solutions for the warts, if I find something that works, I’ll post on it.

I’ll get off my soap box now…

By: vickii

vickii — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:12:58 +0000

Im 22 weeks and my warts sprouted up at around 16 weeks ive never had them before my mum had them while she had me and had them removed i wonder if she passed them to me during my birth now i have them carrying my daughter! They grew triple in size in a week i have never seen hpv on my.ex or.current partner so i have no idea ? If anyone has had the freeze method can you tell me is it uncomftable or does pain occur

By: Alison

Alison — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:33:18 +0000

I just received a diagnosis of genital warts today during my prenatal appointment. My OB doesn’t think it will affect my desire for a natural delivery, but is doing research to make sure given that they are all the way up inside and may compromise the birth canal.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:09:49 +0000

i just found out i have genital warts, and im pregnate now. im scared my baby will get it but i want to give a natuarl birth. Is there anyway when they fall off i can get them tested to make 100% sure that its really genital warts. Like i just dont believe it , because i have had this skin growth for awhile and ive been to the doctors nd they said before that its normal that it wasnt genital warts and now a different doctor says it is. What can i do to get more proof?

By: Abigail

Abigail — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:59:59 +0000

i have genital warts. And I want to be pregnant. my partner now has no genital warts. if we contact will i pass the virus to my partner?

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 04:52:40 +0000

Jodi,
You can give vaginal birth if you have Genital Warts, however, it is not recommended. The mother can pass on the virus to her child after coming in contact with it, so most doctors will recommend a Cesarean delivery.

Corinne,
Genital Warts and the warts you have on your hands and feet are different viruses. Just as warts on your hands or feet cannot cause genital warts, genital warts cannot cause warts on your hands and feet. Also, it’s not fact, but it is popular belief that the HPV virus cannot travel through the placenta, as stated above, it is mostly conceived through vaginal delivery.

By: Corinne

Corinne — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:59:03 +0000

Jodi,
I am not sure but I do not think you can. My mom has warts and she had to have a c section with all three of her kids.

If a mother had Genital warts can it cause a different strand of warts in her children? My brother, my sister, and I have all had foot warts and my little brother has hand warts not. Is it possible that this is because of our mother?

By: Jodi

Jodi — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:05:58 +0000

if the warts are in the vagina is it still possible to give a vaginal birth?

By: Vera

Vera — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:19:40 +0000

Genital warts during pregnancy can be uncomfortable for the women that suffer from them. Mostly because of the exposure of the genital warts to a lot of people during appointments and labor.

Women may want to keep their warts private and pregnancy makes this hard.

Unfortunately, during pregnancy the warts are usually at their worst.