Precipitate labour and Group B strep - help

[Indecision2020]

My first labour was really fast - 2.5hours from first contraction to baby being born. I’m due again and had planned a home birth as I’ve been advised that the second will likely be quicker.

However, I’ve just found out that I’ve tested positive for Group B strep (picked up in routine urine test), and they now recommend that I have IV antibiotics in labour, and will need to go to hospital for these (so no home birth). From what I’ve seen online the antibiotics ideally need to be given 4 hours before birth, if it’s less than 2 hours before they are much less effective if at all.

I don’t know what to do! I doubt I’ll make it to hospital on time - we live a 25 min drive away but don’t have a car. DH would likely have to stay with our toddler as no time to make other arrangements. I’m terrified I’d end up giving birth alone in an Uber and missing out on the antibiotics anyway, but that’s effectively what hospital are advising me to do.

Any advice or experiences would he gratefully received!

In the car. I should have trusted myself and gone in when I thought I needed to instead of phoning. I’d have been safer to have had a homebirth because at least a midwife would have attended. The midwife got to me about 15 mins after baby was born. The ambulance got to me 7 minutes before, so at least I had someone to deliver the baby.

I’m in exactly the same boat as OP here (very fast first labour, planning a HB with our second, GBS positive at 37 weeks and about an hour from the hospital) and I’m curious as to what the outcome was, if you’ve had your baby yet?