Having Lyme/Co's and have a healthy baby

I have no doubt my wife has had/have lyme while she was pregnant. She was bitten by countless ticks growing up in Connecticut. She has never had any symptoms or been treated. Our children have had no health problems. I think the risk is overblown personally and repeated over and over again creating FUD, but I have absolutely no proof.

I know some llmds recommend the mother take antibiotics during pregnancy as Lyme can be passed on to the baby

Pediatric Lyme Dr Jones has written about the subject
I’ll see if I can find info.

Here’s llmd MR take on it:

https://www.treatlyme.net/guide/lyme-pregnancy-will-my-baby-get-it-what-about-my-health#:~:text=in%20her%20presentation%20to%20the%20international%20lyme%20and,of%20children%20had%20laboratory%20evidence%20of%20lyme%20transmission.

“ Treatment of Lyme disease during pregnancy

Before starting any treatment, make sure your doctor knows you’re pregnant or might be pregnant. Fortunately, one of the standard antibiotic treatments for Lyme disease is safe during pregnancy. The antibiotic amoxicillin is usually taken three times a day for two to three weeks. If you’re allergic to amoxicillin, your doctor might prescribe cefuroxime, a different antibiotic, taken twice daily instead. “

So I feel confident to answer this question since I got lyme and co from my mom. All my siblings did too. she didn’t know she had lyme until I got diagnosed when I was 21 and she realized she had all the same symptoms her whole life but just much more mild.

I had perfect health until some really stressful events happened to me at age 17. it started slow with gut issues and joint pain and severe fatigue and then just worsened. but i’m not here to tell how I got dx.

I wanted to comment because I had JUST stopped antibiotics (herbal treatment) in April of 2019 and got pregnant in January of 2020. I had a perfect pregnancy and felt AMAZING the whole time almost. My LLMD and midwives said it was common to feel better for most lymies during pregnancy. some people get worse if they have other autoimmune diseases. but I do. I have celiac, and I didn’t feel bad at all. zero morning sickness, sometimes walked 5 miles a day during pregnancy when I couldn’t have done that before.

I had a perfect, super fast and unbelievably magical home birth in September and my little man is flawlessly healthy. who knows if he will end up with health issues in the future. but I hope not. I can only teach him to prioritize his diet and lifestyle and hope for the best.

As a side note, my sister didn’t have any lyme symptoms until she was in her 20’s but she had greatly abused her body with street drugs and alcohol lifestyle, so she kinda crashed.

My brother died when he was 17 in a drowning accident. He had started to have POTS symptoms and would pass out when standing up too fast. He also had stopped eating gluten too because it hurt his gut. That was only a couple months before he died. I’m grateful in a sense he is in heaven instead of potentially chronically ill with lyme.

seems to hit people when they hit adulthood. dunno. but you gotta live life. I wouldn’t trade my little buddy for sitting around worrying about having healthy kids. I hope to have more kids too. (not saying you’re sitting around worrying- just saying I felt that way before trying)

all the best

Your Obstetrician and midwives were ok with taking abx during pregnancy? I can see an LLMD giving the green light but a mainstream provider having a possible issue? I'm afraid I'd get crap for it and would be a fired patient.

It's sad who to trust nowadays. I have so many fears.

You can have the cord tested for Lyme.

wild_teasel said...

Girlie said...
You can have the cord tested for Lyme.

Hi Girlie, could you provide more details about this testing? Thank you

I don’t know much about it - I think I read about it on LLMD Dr Jone’s website.

Girlie said...
I found this - mentions testing the placenta.
But I doubt the Dr would agree to that ? Since LD isn’t something most docs are educated in.

https://sites.google.com/site/drjoneskids/pregnancy-and-lyme/pregnancy-outcomes

Thank you so much for sharing that, Girlie!
It's good to know what's possible, then it's a matter of working the way to have it done.