Does B-Strep cycle and is it likely to have gone by now?

Question

When I was 7 weeks pregnant my doc sent me for a B-strep test along with my initial blood tests. So anyway I tested positive for the bacteria, and the doc says I will need to have an antibiotic IV when I go into labour. When I am in labour I don't want to be hooked up to a bag and I don't need any more trauma than I will already be in (I am scared of needles). When I get to the city at 36 weeks (I have to relocate to give birth as our town doesn't have the facilities) I am thinking I will go see my old doctor and ask him to re-do the test. Do you think it is likely to be gone 29 weeks after it was detected?

Answer 1

i am positive for it also..the hospital messed up my file and never gave me the antibiotic my daughter was hooked up to an iv in her tiny foot for 7 days the bruise was there for about a month..they took her blood 4 times a day by giving her a shot in her foot then scrapping pout the blood and my husband and i had to stand there and listen to her scream..we could not go home she could not go home..she is 11 months old now and still gets nervous when people touch her feet..you can ask to redo the test to be sure you have it but if you do i am terrified of needles i wish i could have been hooked up to 100 for my daughter to not go through what she went through..if you still come back positive just take the one needle so your child does not have to take one 4 times a day to keep checking the blood for the bacteria..you will be glad you did.  oh and that is all for precaution not because she had it..so they will definitely do the same to your child..

Answer 2

the only way for it to be gone is to get the iv. if you don't it can be fatal to the baby.  

Answer 3

Sweetie, either way you will be hooked up to a bag. They put you on IV fluids during your labor. If you are planning on an epidural, you'll be stuck then. If it isn't gone, which I don't know much about B-strep, but I'd say either way you're going to have to be hooked up to an IV, might as well do what's good for the baby's health right?

Answer 4

Chances are you still have it and for them to give it to you this early the test I mean is weird.  You'll get some I'v's and yes you have to have it.  No big deal

Answer 5

I'm in Australia too. I thought group B strep could come and go to some extent, which is why they normally give you the test at about 36 weeks.

I had group B strep with my son. When my waters broke I had to go straight to the hospital for the antibiotics. They put a canula in the back of my hand and every six hours pumped in the antibiotics (over about half an hour) using a little device that sat on the table. Otherwise, I wasn't hooked up to anything. I just had the little needle and tube in my hand which didn't hurt once it was in.

Answer 6

B-strep can be a nightmare! I have tested positive for it for my second pregnancy now. My first pregnancy, I gave it to my son. The way they test the babies now for it is to give them a spinal tap. And because they are so tiny, they can't numb the area. They just stick this huge needle in their tiny little spine. It's awful. The reason they tested him was, he was born with a fever of 104. Then they lost the specimen and didn't want to do another spinal tap, kept him in the NICU for a week hooked up to machines, testing his blood, etc.... Get the test again if it makes you feel better, but the chances are that you are still positive.

I'm hoping that the medicine works this time. It's not a chance that you want to take though. It can be fatal to a newborn. I contracted it as a baby also from my mother and was in the hospital for a week. Just get the IV!