Posted October 3, 2014. If you have Lyme disease and are thinking of getting pregnant or are pregnant or had a baby while you had Lyme disease, you should have your baby tested for borrelia bergdorferi (the Lyme spirochete). There is a lot of credible evidence which suggests that a mother can pass the bacteria to her unborn child. Here is a recent article in the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/can-pregnant-women-transmit-lyme-disease-to-their-babies/2014/09/29/38048de2-42a8-11e4-b437-1a7368204804_story.html
Prenatal Transmission and Lyme Symptoms
