Babies! They’re so cute that you want to hold them and squeeze them and kiss them, right? But if you have a cold sore, you might want to think twice. That’s apparently how Amy Stinton’s baby contracted herpes. She’s shared a horror story on Facebook. This is what happens to babies, when been in contact with a cold sore, she wrote. Oliver now has the herpes virus and will have this for life. Think before you kiss a baby next time. She wrote that her baby was in the hospital for four days on an IV drip in her comments section. She didn’t need to say much more – the photo says it all! The photo has been getting passed around since she first shared it, with moms on Facebook rushing to her support. She did, however, tell someone in the comments section who suggested that she should submit this story to the media that she wasn’t going to that, as she wanted to concentrate on family. Stinton later posted an update, saying that her baby was still very sore but better in himself. Stinton’s child isn’t the first baby to get herpes from someone else’s cold sore. Just last year, mom Claire Henderson shared a similar story, warning other parents about the dangers of infants contracting the virus from a seemingly benign kiss. Her story went viral, with over 51,000 people sharing it. And in 2013, a two-month-old premature baby passed away after catching the virus from his father. Unfortunately, herpes is way more common than you might think. Approximately 3.7 billion, or 67 percent of adults under 50 have herpes simplex 1, the kind that only shows up on your mouth as cold sores, and roughly 417 million people ages 14-49, or 11 percent, have herpes simplex 2, the kind that shows up as genital herpes, according to the World Health Organisation. The good news is that people can go on living their lives just fine with herpes. The bad news is that it’s a very different story when a baby contracts the virus.