Cressa brought me "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?" and then instead of sitting on my lap like usual went to get her brown bear to read it with us :)
I love the illustrations and Cressa is pretty good with colors so it keeps reinforcing that which I love. She got a ton of new books this last week and I'm very happy about it. I was getting so very sick of the few we had, haha.
my midwife just called me back telling me i have high levels of strep b ( i thought i had a uti,so they did a test) so now i have to be put on antibiotics,bleh.
(which is werid because when i was pregnant with my son,ethan,when they did that test,it was negative)
anyways,does this mean i can't have a water birth since i have strep b,and they're going to want to give me antibiotics during labor?
my midwives office gave me a sheet on the things that would stop me from having a water birth,and this wasn't one of them i'm just confused.
I'm not entirely sure how it works but from what I know it has been done with women with group b strep. I know that just because you tested positive doesn't mean that you HAVE it just that it's there. I think this means that it won't necessarily affect the baby. But I'm not entirely convinced that a hospital would be ok with it... I'd talk to her more about it to figure it out. I seem to remember that there was some option after being tested and finding a positive that you could do before throwing out the idea of a water birth.
Does anyone have any thoughts on a waterbirth for a woman who is Group B Strep positive (who makes informed choice to decline antibiotic therapy)? Extra infection transmission risk to baby from being born in water or not?
As someone who studied microbiology, I would have thought that anything (such as water) which diluted/washed off vaginal secretions/amniotic fluid present on the baby's face would tend to reduce the risk of infection, especially as baby won't inhale until above the water line. Not research based, but logical I'd have thought.
I found that on ask.com somewhere. That's all I have bene able to find about it though!
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my midwife just called me back telling me i have high levels of strep b ( i thought i had a uti,so they did a test)
so now i have to be put on antibiotics,bleh.
(which is werid because when i was pregnant with my son,ethan,when they did that test,it was negative)
anyways,does this mean i can't have a water birth since i have strep b,and they're going to want to give me antibiotics during labor?
my midwives office gave me a sheet on the things that would stop me from having a water birth,and this wasn't one of them
i'm just confused.
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As someone who studied microbiology, I would have thought that anything (such as water) which diluted/washed off vaginal secretions/amniotic fluid present on the baby's face would tend to reduce the risk of infection, especially as baby won't inhale until above the water line. Not research based, but logical I'd have thought.
I found that on ask.com somewhere. That's all I have bene able to find about it though!
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