I'm posting this here instead of health and Healing because I'm hoping for a TF approach instead of just a supplement approach.
With my first DS, I was Strep + while pregnant. Highly colonized Strep +, and we opted to do a hibicleanse (topical antimicrobial douche) during labor instead of the standard IV antibiotic. This was not at all surprising that I was strep +, as I was then being treated (via diet) for Leaky Gut Syndrome (huge yeast overgrowth). DS (now 2) is now on the GAPS diet for Leaky Gut Syndrome as well - while I know the hibicleanse didn't cause it, I know it didn't help, as it wiped out any good bacteria he might have gotten in the birth canal. I'm now pg with #2, LGS cured, and doing everything I can to ensure I'm not strep + this time around (saurkraut, beet kvass, raw milk and yogurt, kombucha, cranberry, garlic, bee propolis....the list goes on and on). If I am Strep + again, I'm not sure my husband and I are going to be comfortable doing nothing - I've been so highly colonized in the past that I'm certain our risk of meningitis is higher than the average 1%, though my health is so much better now. Soooo.....if we do need to do the hibicleanse during labor, I'm thinking I would start baby on probiotics right away. This will also help with when I need surgery (injury from recent car accident) when baby is a couple of months old and I need to have an antibiotic IV about an hour before surgery. I'm so anxious about being preventative here, as so far both me and DS have had to be treated for leaky gut syndrome ad it has been a nightmare for both of us. I'd do anything to help this little one avoid having a microflora imbalance. Any advice about how to approach this with an infant? What probiotic foods I can be giving her or him if these things come to pass?
With my first DS, I was Strep + while pregnant. Highly colonized Strep +, and we opted to do a hibicleanse (topical antimicrobial douche) during labor instead of the standard IV antibiotic. This was not at all surprising that I was strep +, as I was then being treated (via diet) for Leaky Gut Syndrome (huge yeast overgrowth). DS (now 2) is now on the GAPS diet for Leaky Gut Syndrome as well - while I know the hibicleanse didn't cause it, I know it didn't help, as it wiped out any good bacteria he might have gotten in the birth canal. I'm now pg with #2, LGS cured, and doing everything I can to ensure I'm not strep + this time around (saurkraut, beet kvass, raw milk and yogurt, kombucha, cranberry, garlic, bee propolis....the list goes on and on). If I am Strep + again, I'm not sure my husband and I are going to be comfortable doing nothing - I've been so highly colonized in the past that I'm certain our risk of meningitis is higher than the average 1%, though my health is so much better now. Soooo.....if we do need to do the hibicleanse during labor, I'm thinking I would start baby on probiotics right away. This will also help with when I need surgery (injury from recent car accident) when baby is a couple of months old and I need to have an antibiotic IV about an hour before surgery. I'm so anxious about being preventative here, as so far both me and DS have had to be treated for leaky gut syndrome ad it has been a nightmare for both of us. I'd do anything to help this little one avoid having a microflora imbalance. Any advice about how to approach this with an infant? What probiotic foods I can be giving her or him if these things come to pass?
. He's such a good eater, it kills me to deny him these foods. He requests kale, for crying out loud, but can't yet tolerate it 
