Routine IVABS because membranes ruptured?

[puddleduck2001]

Hi hope someones around, I am labouring patiently at home atm, booked for a homebirth, totally normal pregnancy and full term. My waters broke last night, contractions followed an hour later, and the hospital are on at me to be admitted for IVABS if I haven't delivered by 8pm tonight...don't want to go, will probably decline, but has anyone else had this? is it normal practice? All I took in about PROM was the guidelines 'allowing' us up to 96 hrs to give birth. I'm buggered if they're taking my HB off me for this, wouldnt have told them about the waters breaking if I had known...

I think it's likely to cause even more unnecesary interventions for women. I forget the percentage, but a large number of women are carriers and the vast majority have no problems. I don't see the point in causing extra difficulties to the majority of women because of a very small risk to some. Those interventions have risks too - I should know as I suffered side effects from most of them, causing a terrible labour and major long-term problems.

Also, the testing may be offered but sooner or later it will be persuaded, and it would be an extra worry for carriers when the chances are, they had nothing to worry about.

Just my two penneth..

There's a very interesting article about routine testing and treatment for GBS colonisations on the Aims website. I've been reading about this quite a lot in the past few days as my cousin wants a homebirth but has been told she can't because she had a positive GBS test in her last pregnancy, although the most recent test came back negative.

Hi folks , a belated update for you, been busy having a baby! First things first, i never had any IVABS, yay! Neither did baby, we didn't need them. Brief birth story for you - After the ROM on Thursday night I posted about, I was still not in active labour by Saturday lunchtime but had been having irregular contractions ever since, but not getting any regular pattern or length. I agreed to attend the hospital for monitoring on the Saturday lunchtime as I felt the lack of progress was becoming a problem in itself, plus I was pretty fed up by then, no sleep for 2 days by then due to the pain.

All was ok on the monitoring initally, they still wanted to admit me for IVABS but I was still happy to decline them, no clinical indications of infection etc. However the contractions started getting much worse and the HB was starting to drop - this worsened quite a bit and I relunctantly agreed to be admitted for the delivery...they wanted to augment things with synto.
I REALLY hated the idea and discussed (ie asked for!) a CS instead as I strongly felt it was going to end with a CS anyway, because if baby was going to come naturally there would have been progress, and because if the baby wasn't tolerating these bizarre erratic contractions, it would not tolerate strong ones from the synto. The Registrar refused, but promised that if the baby wasn't tolerating the synto, they would stop it right away and do a CS.To cut a long gory story short, I asked for an epidural before the synto was started, the epidural failed and the hb started to plummet big time and it was like an episode of ER- i was rushed to theatre for a (crash) section under GA. They never started the synto because things worsened before they got chance.

Turned out that baby was a brow presentation and had cord around the neck, I was right to be worried that synto wasn't going to help! In my drug induced stupor I told the Registrar 'i told you so' in recovery, he later apologised to DH...to say it was an upsetting experience is a gross understatement, it was hideous.

BUT... I now have a beautiful daughter born on Mothers Days at 3.16am, 6lb 4.5oz. Apgars were 7 and 10, scbu bed was cancelled, and we both made an uneventful recovery as they say. I am still glad I turned down the interventions I did, and no regrets that I tried for a homebirth, I don't feel I failed because it would have been impossible to have a vaginal delivery in the circumstances.

Was really good to come on here for support during the early stages too - only sorry I couldn't come back with a cheery tale about giving birth in my pool with no analgesia , lol.

congratulations puddleduck - i was about to post that i had my first 9 days after my waters broke with no ABs until theatre (although should have had htem as i have heart prob).

glad to hear all went well and how lovely that she was born on mothers day

how wonderful to have a mothers' day baby ! congratulations on your little one's safe arrival xxxxxxxxx