Are there any babies born healthy iIf women are treated for chronic lyme and go in remission and then get pregnant and have antibiotic tx throughout the pregnancy?
All i read is that children are born with it even when the mothers are treated.. I have not seen any stories where the children are born healthy..
Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
I have had Lyme since I was a child. I gave birth to 5 children, one has Lyme (but was bitten and tick was attached for a few days, so no way to know if it was from me). I was not treated at all prior to or during pregnancy as I was undiagnosed and OB/gyn thought my Lyme flare was merely me exaggerating my pregnancy symptoms (he was always unsupportive and even ridiculed me when I got diagnosed .... he clearly thought I was a hypochondriac).
So, my kids were born healthy. Posted by fighter (Member # 20170) on :
hezzer - i've been thinking about this too.
i'm in my early 20s and the possibility of a baby is something i'd like to have on my horizon, sometime in the future.
if treatment before pregnancy prevents the baby from inheriting lyme - that'll definitely be a huge motivator to go thru the full treatment.
which mother would want to, knowingly, put her child thru all the pain and problems that lyme causes?!?
sixgoofykids - so are u saying that even without treatment none of your kids inherited the lyme?
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