Pregnant women: forget about cunnilingus during pregnancy

During pregnancy, some women experience increased pleasure while others have a slow orgasm . A word of advice to the first and all those who still have fun in bed despite their belly: one practice should still be banned, especially at the end of pregnancy, as it can endanger the health of the fetus: cunnilingus. Some experts therefore recommend that expectant mothers do without oral sex until they give birth to their baby.

Banning oral sex altogether for women — at least in the third trimester — is the new recommendation from experts, Vice reports. According to them, the practice could put the baby at risk of STDs . "The biggest risk is that a woman will contract herpes in the third trimester  ," says Terri Warren, a nurse practitioner and author of The Good News About The Bad News: Herpes: Everything You Need to Know .

Risks that should not be taken lightly, since the baby has a high chance of contamination. "  If you catch herpes during your third trimester, there is a 50% chance that your baby will be infected at birth ," explains Terri Waren, before adding  : "In the third trimester, your immune defenses are compromised  ." Thus weakened, pregnant women are all the more likely to catch the virus, while they cannot present an immune barrier as effective as normal.

And the consequences can be serious. Indeed, the contamination of babies can cause blisters in the eyes, mouth or skin of the infant. And as indicated in an article in The Sun , a baby born to a mother who contracted herpes would be twice as likely to be autistic at birth.

For the mother, the infection is therefore mainly transmitted through cunnilingus. However, according to experts, even if the mother wears a condom - female - the STD can still slip through the net, and can reach the baby's body by entering an open wound, or by contact with the mouth. Therefore, mothers who have contracted a sexually transmitted disease will have to resort to a caesarean section to limit the risks of transmission to the baby.

Very poorly informed about the risks associated with sex during pregnancy, it is useful to remind pregnant women that in the event of infection, they must always inform their partner – and vice versa – as well as their doctor.