B strep positive.

they’ll infuse pen g or cephalosporin if you have an allergy to former. First doing a loading dose that’s bigger, then a smaller dose every 4 hours during labour until you have the baby. So you won’t be connected to an IV the entire time , but you’ll have the saline lock left in.
I know it changes your plans, but you have to be flexible, try to stay positive mama. Your baby will have the birth he/she needs to come into this world healthy and safe.
Hope this helps ✌️ - L&D nurse

Thank yall for responding 💕

I definitely plan to get it. Just not knowing how it works was upsetting, and I've had horrible experiences with IVs.
My mom swears they gave her an oral treatment of antibiotics. Does that sound likely? If it's a round of antibiotics, why could I not take it before and be retested? Seems simple to do...

Hi! I am absolutely not advocating for anything but I was reading up a little on this because I was curious. Different developed countries treat it differently (some European countries vs the US) and also about the outcome statistics of babies that actually get infected/ coated as they go through a natural birth and then also what percent gets seriously sick from those etc in the published research on this.

It seems that here in the US they will actively treat it during labor and in other countries they will only treat if you present other symptoms as well. Like always there is more to the story. It puzzles me how something that is natural to a mothers flora and not causing her harm would be dangerous to the baby. Wiping out all/ most/ some (?) of the vaginal flora makes the point of a vaginal birth + giving the baby that micro flora almost pointless in a way, no? Again, not advocating against it - just don’t understand it myself fully yet. It’s not the end of the world though 🙏🏻

I had it in my last pregnancy and was told that safest option was to have IV at least 4 hours before. I got it roughly 8 hours before and was free from it during painful labor.