If you have strep b...

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... What have your birth experiences been like?

Just had my positive result confirmed at 37 weeks so home birth for dc2 is ruled out, again. Local hospital doesn't offer IV antibiotics for home births so would have to take the risk of infection. We've decided we're not willing to take that risk, so hospital it is.

Basically just wondering if another traumatic, over-medicalised birth is all I should expect?

Thanks in advance x

I'd take an antibiotics drip over a baby getting strep B.

Lucky you got the positive result before the birth.

I had GBS with my 2nd child. No traumatic birth. It was a very straightforward, easy waterbirth. I had an IV drip, but aside from that everything else was completely hands off.

The baby was fine (and is now 6!)

Beat of luck!

Thanks, but that's not what I was asking.

I had antibiotic IV. My birth was pretty straight forward and I was home within 24 hours despite a difficult pregnancy!

My first dc was Orem and had antibiotics in the womb and didn't get the infection. Birth was back to back but pretty straightforward. Second dc they refused to test me and he ended up getting the infection. Luckily both were ok and now 16 and 14.

Hope the birth goes well and glad you've decided to play it safe

I had it, ended up with a straightforward water birth, just had IV antibiotics in the early stages. It's not a continuous drip, think each dose takes around 30 minutes so you're otherwise free to move around. Don't let it worry you, it's good you've had it picked up and it should have very little impact on your birth.

So, I had 2 children prior to discovering I had group B…and I’ve had another 4 since. I found out whilst I was planning a home birth for third, so it did become more medicalised but it also calms me hugely that I’m getting the baby’s antibiotics safely and that makes for a better labour. All four since have just been breaking my waters, nothing else, and length of entire labour has ranged from 5 hours to 20 minutes. No pain relief apart from gas and air for any of my births. All babies fine thank God. Oh, and two of my births after group B were truly empowering - they were ones with only the midwives and myself.
Good luck.

Thanks most of you for helpful comments, my birth experience last time was of my waters breaking and labour being induced x3, ventouse delivery and massive blood loss. Failed breastfeeding and terrible pnd. So it's really important to me to have less medical intervention this time but I don't know how to prevent my waters from breaking early :(

In our unit if you have Strep B you have Iv abx 4hrly throughout labour then the baby has observations checked every 2 hrs for a total of 12 hrs to check for any signs of infection.
If Strep B was your only risk factor you can birth in the water. You still can they may want to cannulate you and take bloods as you mentioned you had a large PPH with first birth.
Hope it all goes well for you. 2nd births are often quicker😁

My first i laboured in water, gave birth out of the water. No antibiotics. Everything fine.
My second i had a drug free active birth with antibiotics. Everything fine.

With my first I had the antibiotics and all was fine. Second time baby arrived less than an hour after I got to hospital, and they were in no hurry to assess me - just assumed things would take a long time. So there was no time for antibiotics. But thankfully baby was absolutely fine.