Help please Anyone gbs positive?

[grantobe]

Hi I I havent posted for a while now but I need more information on gbs. My daughter has tested positive and is shattered. She has had many complications through this pregnancy and many m/c previous. Just when she thought she was home free as she is 38 weeks this test comes back positive. Is there anyone who has had this and is there any more you can add. Thankyou in advance.

[nattyfred]

Hi there dont panic!!!!

GBS is a harmless (unless you are a baby coming through a GBS birth canal as luck would have it...)bacteria that lives in body secretions and can be passed on orally through using toothbrushes or same utensils or through sex etc but usually a whole household will test pos. It is not an STD. My ob told me my mum probably had it as I have it and not to worry. My partner probably has it either from me or maybe he even gave it to me...Who knows?

All it means is when your daughter is in labour and her water breaks she should go to the hosp calmly after a shower or a meal or whatever and get an IV of antibiotics for her and the baby. She will still need the antibiotics if she has a caesar if the waters have broken too as the waters membrane stops the baceria being able to get in from the vagina.

My OB explained that if I dont get the antibiotics the baby could have complications from breathing the fluid such as pnemonia. It is not a 000 call event if her waters break, just make sure she tells the midwives at the hosp when she goes there.

I hope this helps, her OB or MW should have explained this to her..I was a bit worried at first but with reassurance from my OB I am not worried at all.

If anyone has anything to add Id be interested in reading too

Good luck with your daughters PG

Natty

[doudou]

GBS doesnot enter the "birth canal" unless it is put in there. so internals are not a good thing once the waters have broken(although this might not happen until the end any way)

GBS comes and goes so although she way have it now she maynot have it in a week or 2 but its not usually retested and if in hospital she will mostlikely be told she HAS to have AB's although that choice is up to her.

baby wont breathe while being birthed until it has hit oxygen

[nattyfred]

Thanks Doudou

[Mum2]

Grantobe I was positive with dd. I had IV antibiotics about an hour before she was born. It was fine. We both went home when she was 6 hours old.

[Rainbow Raver]

I tested positive with DS and while i was in labour they gave me IV antibiotics.. all was fine