HPV causes genital warts and is a very common STD with numerous viral strains, some of which can lead to cervical cancer.
How can HPV affect your pregnancy and your baby? When developed during pregnancy, HPV treatment is often delayed until after delivery of the baby. Sometimes genital warts can grow due to pregnancy hormones; if they grow big enough to obstruct the birth canal, the baby may have to be delivered via cesarean section.
In very rare cases, a mother can pass HPV to her baby during childbirth. An extremely small number of these infants develop a condition that causes tumors to grow in the throat called recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP). These tumors are surgically removed, but often come back.
