Hepatitis C is an incurable viral liver infection. Hepatitis C symptoms can include flu-like symptoms– fever, fatigue, nausea, dark urine and jaundice.
How can hepatitis C affect your pregnancy and your baby? Hepatitis C can be transmitted from an infected mother to her baby during delivery. The rate of hepatitis C transmission from mother to child is 1 in 20. Currently, there is no vaccine or other way to help prevent the baby from contracting hepatitis C at birth. If a child gets hepatitis C at birth, their health (especially liver health) will need to be monitored. One in four children will clear the virus on their own; the remaining will become carriers of the virus.
