Over coming the odds.

by Ashley
(Florida)

I was 18 only for a month when I was diagnosed with genital herpes. I left the hospital shortly after that in tears and in enormous amount of pain.

I called my boyfriend at the time asking if he forgot to tell me something before we started having sex, he had no idea what I was talking about.

I told him the whole story of how I walked out of the bathroom after trying to pee and how I blacked out from the pain and was drove to the hospital where I got the diagnosis.

I went back to his house that evening and we talked about for along time. The following day he went in to his doctors office as well and they told him he had it as well.

We discovered that he had it but had no symptoms what so ever and passed it on to me with out knowing.

However we're still together over a year later and are now engaged plus I just gave birth to a beautiful and health 8lb 13oz baby boy January 13th. I had a c-section which was no where near the pain of that first outbreak.

To this day I've only had 2 out breaks since Jan 2010. I love my life and my little family and hope that my story has helped or let you know that you can still have very health children just have to take extra precautions during the pregnancy.

Oh and I case any of you were wondering I was able to breast feed him, your able to as long as you don't get sores on your breast.