Chicken pox is an infectious disease of childhood. It is rare in infants and newborns due to passive immunity received from the mother. The characteristic skin eruptions are vesicular with erythematous base and accompanied with pruritus. Skin of palms and soles is typically spared. We report a case of neonatal varicella where the mother was having skin eruptions at the time of delivery and the neonate contracted it during the perinatal period and developed clinical disease on the day five of life. Specific anti viral therapy was given to mother and the baby and the recovery was uneventful.