Problems with the placenta and the umbilical cord.Low birthweight is when a baby is born weighing less than 5 pounds, 8 ounces. Fetal growth restriction is when a baby doesn’t gain the weight she should before birth. Fetal growth restriction (also called growth-restricted, small for gestational age or small for date) and low birthweight.This is birth that happens too soon, before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Miscarriage is when a baby dies in the womb before 20 weeks of pregnancy. Complications depend on how long you were infected with syphilis during pregnancy and if and when you got treatment.Ĭongenital syphilis can cause problems for your baby during pregnancy, including: Your baby may seem healthy at birth, but syphilis may cause health complications later in life if he doesn’t get treated right away. How can congenital syphilis affect your baby during and after pregnancy?Ĭongenital syphilis can cause complications for your baby during pregnancy and after birth. Up to 2 in 5 babies (40 percent) born to women with untreated syphilis die from the infection. If your syphilis isn’t treated, it can cause serious problems for your baby, including death. If you have syphilis during pregnancy and don’t get treated, you can pass it to your baby. You also can get syphilis by having direct contact with (touching or kissing) an infected person’s syphilis sore. This means you get it from having unprotected sex with a person who is infected with syphilis. An STI is an infection you can get from having unprotected sex or intimate physical contact with someone who is infected. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (also called STD). Vaginal birth is when contractions in your uterus (womb) help push your baby out through the vagina. Most of the time, syphilis is passed from mom to baby during pregnancy, but it can happen during vaginal birth if a baby has direct contact with a syphilis sore. The only way your baby can get congenital syphilis is if you have syphilis and pass it to your baby. Congenital syphilis is when your baby is born infected with syphilis.
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