I am planning a hospital birth in a few weeks. I LOVE my mws and they are cool with whatever I want to do. This is my 4th birth, and my 2nd with these mws. But, here's my dilemma: with my other pregnancies I have always tested positive for GBS. With my last birth, my labor was too quick, so even though I had the IV, it was less than 4 hours before birth, so my poor baby had to have the blood work up done.
Even though I have tested GBS+, I have never had any other risk factors that would cause concern for the baby. My water has never broken until I'm pushing, my labors just keep getting shorter, baby and I have never had fevers, my mws don't do cervical checks in labor unless I want them to, etc.
I would really like to avoid all the GBS nonsense all together this time. But here are my options.
I can do the testing and hope for a negative result. Then they'd leave me and baby alone.
Or, get a positive result and have to likely do both the IV AND blood cultures on the baby, since I don't expect to be at the hospital for very long.
Or, I can decline the test, thus avoiding the IV, but then still subjecting my newborn to blood cultures.
I just can't decide which is my best option. I'd love to just test negative, but I'm worried that's not going to happen. I'd be willing to try garlic and hibiclens before the test (which I haven't done previously), but if it doesn't work then I'm stuck. I'd love to have a way to find out my test results and then decide if I should share it with the hospital. But that's not an option.
So, thoughts?
Even though I have tested GBS+, I have never had any other risk factors that would cause concern for the baby. My water has never broken until I'm pushing, my labors just keep getting shorter, baby and I have never had fevers, my mws don't do cervical checks in labor unless I want them to, etc.
I would really like to avoid all the GBS nonsense all together this time. But here are my options.
I can do the testing and hope for a negative result. Then they'd leave me and baby alone.
Or, get a positive result and have to likely do both the IV AND blood cultures on the baby, since I don't expect to be at the hospital for very long.
Or, I can decline the test, thus avoiding the IV, but then still subjecting my newborn to blood cultures.
I just can't decide which is my best option. I'd love to just test negative, but I'm worried that's not going to happen. I'd be willing to try garlic and hibiclens before the test (which I haven't done previously), but if it doesn't work then I'm stuck. I'd love to have a way to find out my test results and then decide if I should share it with the hospital. But that's not an option.
So, thoughts?