What are the risks of Hpv, Genital Warts during Pregnancy?

The genital warts (hpv) infection doesn't interfere with male or female fertility. If you are planning to conceive and have genital warts go ahead there's no such point holding up. But it would be sensible if get your genital warts treated first.
 

Hpv and pregnancy can coexist. There is no considerable evidence of an hpv infection causing any problem during pregnancy. Complications like miscarriage and premature labor have not been directly linked with an infection of hpv during pregnancy. Hpv has no direct relation with miscarriage, premature labor, or other types of related complications.

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But in some cases genital warts (symptoms of hpv) has been found to  cause problems while the delivery procedure and to the newborn baby. Although the chances are low.

The body of a woman undergoes many changes during pregnancy, immunity goes down or weakens, there is a change in hormones, blood supply increases etc. The hormone change is one key change that takes place in every women’s body during pregnancy, as a result of which genital warts can grow quickly in size, have more eruptions, can bleed, which further may give rise to bowl problems or make delivery more harder and in extremely low cases can lead to cesarean section delivery.

One reason to go for cesarean section delivery is when the genital warts have such a growth that they obstruct the birth canal impeding normal delivery.

Chances to have a cesarean section delivery just on account of hpv infection with no symptoms are none. At times when genital warts (hpv) get larger during pregnancy, it becomes difficult to urinate.

An expecting mother who has genital warts can transmit the infection to her child during process of giving birth. If the child gets infected the hpv infection shows up in the baby's throat or mouth. This condition is treatable though.

Children can contract hpv infection at the time of their birth through genital warts (vaginal warts) infected birth canal or can contract hpv infection from the hands of caregivers.

Vaginal wall is made to stretch a great deal during birth and genital warts on the vaginal wall may affect its ability to stretch during the period of giving birth. If the warts are in the vaginal walls then the genital warts tend to reduce its elasticity, by rendering the vagina less elastic it can cause obstruction during delivery. If the genital warts (vaginal warts to be correct) grow such that they block the birth canal it becomes obvious to have cesarean section delivery.

It is rare that women with a history of human papilloma virus infection giving birth to a infected baby. Most children are born healthy to women with a infection history of genital warts.

Women who have had genital warts in the past but no longer have them have a extremely low chance of having any kind complications or difficulty during pregnancy or delivery.

But if the babies born to genital warts carrying mothers develop growths in the throat. It is a possible life threatening condition for the baby, which would need laser surgery to prevent obstruction of the breathing passages or airway obstruction.

In short, it is sensible to treat any genital warts during pregnancy before expected delivery date but only safe treatment that isn’t harmful to the mother and the baby should be taken during pregnancy. And in cases were a woman conceives during the course of genital warts treatment the health care provider must be made aware of that.