Suffering from the variety of problems and the symptoms that can occur due to a sexually transmitted disease (STD) is bad enough when a woman is not pregnant, and these problems are compounded significantly when it happens to a woman that is pregnant with an unborn baby. There are some sexually transmitted diseases that can be so serious when a woman is pregnant that they can even be responsible for the loss of life. Some of the most common problems that can occur when an STD is contracted during pregnancy would include the early onset of delivery; the membranes that are around the baby for protection could rupture prematurely, and the woman could acquire an infection after delivering the baby. Aside from these serious issues, there are also serious problems that the baby can end up suffering from.

Some of the most common problems that often occur in babies whose mother had acquired an STD during her pregnancy would include meningitis, stillbirth, cirrhosis, birth weight that is low, chronic liver disease, conjunctivitis, acute hepatitis, pneumonia, deafness, neonatal sepsis, blindness, damage to the brain, and a condition that is known as motor function disorder.