Question:
Hi,
Ive not been diagnosed yet, but when i last spoke to a dr she said that it appeared to be herpes. It scared me instantly but my main concern eventually switched off from feeling alone to worrying if i can ever have a child and breastfeed.

My mom laughs at me and my older sister for wanting to try and have a baby naturally. My sister couldnt cuz her babies liked to turn. But i want to not only have the full chance to do that but to also breastfeed because i feel like it brings the mother and child closer. Its very healthy for both.

But i dont know if i would be able to enjoy that if i get confirmed by testing.

Answer:
if you are able, you should be able to have children and breastfeed. you may need to have a c-section, but herpes should stop you from fulfulling the dream of being a mom.

Answer:
I think that if you have herpes, it is in the best interests of the baby to have a c-section.

Try and keep an open mind with pregnancy/childbirth, what we want and what we have are two very different things.

As long as you and baby are healthy that is the main thing.

Good Luck

Answer:
Hi

I have two healthy boys five and two both born vaginally. The first was a natural vaginal homebirth. The second planned homebirth but I had to o to the hospital because my midwife was otherwise engaged. You don't need to have a c section because you've got herpes. You need to take care of your health.

Check out this site http://www.authorsden.com/christycharles

Click on the article Herpes Homebirth. It explains how I did it. Besides you've got until the day of the delivery to opt out of a natural birth (it being the best for both mother and child) if you've got an outbreak with lesions on that day. Your mid wife of gyno can advice you then.

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Answer:
you should be able to do it. i was diagnosed a few years ago and when i mentioned wanting to have another child to my family dr. she said it would be fine and she prescribed me valtrex. she warned me that if there were an outbreak at the time of delivery though that i would have to have a c-section.

then when i started going to my ob/gyn after becoming pregnant, i told her the situation and she still planned on me delivering naturally and even talked to me about breastfeeding. she was incouraging it even before i told her that i already planned on it.

i should know more tomorrow about the outbreak close to time to deliver tomorrow. i'm just getting over an outbreak now and i plan on talking to her about it tomorrow.

Answer:
I have had terrible GH for 4 years, and delivered a beautiful baby vaginally, and am still nursing her 13 months later! You can do it!!! Only if you have an OB during delivery do you need a c/s.

Answer:
i'm so glad that so many women are able to have vaginal deliveries but my GH is so bad that i was just too afraid to try. thank god, too, it wouldn't have been fun, lol. as for breastfeeding, you can still do it, you may want to lay a towel over your stomach to keep the skin there from touching (what my lactation consultant told me, not just personal opinion) because a lot of people get it up there as well as their bottoms and such. i did it for a while but then the nursing clothes come in and your stomach rarely touches the baby after that. you can breastfeed with herpes, i believe it's better for them if you have herpes. it makes sense to me that the antibodies your immune system makes are passed through the milk for everything else so why not to H? right?