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Is your Dr. swabbing you for GBS?

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Mine is even though I'm having a RCS May 10th.  Seems like a waste since baby will not be exiting down there?

 

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  • FemShepFemShep member
    My doc did with my first pregnancy. I tested positive and took the drugs.
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  • cottonlily84cottonlily84 member
    It wouldn't be unheard of.  If your water breaks before the RCS there's a chance of infecting the baby.  If your water doesn't break you should be fine.  If it does before the c/s then they'll just give you the drip antibiotics before the surgery.  It never hurts to know. 
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  • versamversam

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    It wouldn't be unheard of.  If your water breaks before the RCS there's a chance of infecting the baby.  If your water doesn't break you should be fine.  If it does before the c/s then they'll just give you the drip antibiotics before the surgery.  It never hurts to know. 

     

    This. I was positive with first pregnancy. Water broke and was given antibiotics before csection.

    Also, what if you water broke and by the time you made it to the hositpal baby was about to come out on its own so you went ahead with a VBAC.  You just never know!

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  • magdalina.hmagdalina.h member
    Yes just to make sure of no infection in case I went into labor before my RCS.
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  • JAP09-02JAP09-02 member
    Yep, tomorrow is the day.
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  • faith194faith194

    As someone who was premature and suffered awful consequences of having pneumonia due to mom's water breaking(and the hospital litmus test said it hadn't--and she obviously was GBS positive), I would absolutely want to have the test done no matter what type of birth.  I have tons of deep scars from my experience as a newborn, and I would not want to put any baby through that unnecessarily. I am not sure if they swabbed for GBS 31 years ago, and obviously it was the litmus paper test that sent my mom home, but still.

     

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  • jcameron2010jcameron2010
    I got tested, but I was planning a natural birth. But I think it would be good to know anyway, just in case something happens.
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  • biblionerdbiblionerd member
    Mine did not. I would have gotten a c/s whether my water broke/ I went into labor first, so antibiotics would have been given regardless. 
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  • cassoppeacassoppea
    My DD was breech (with very little chance of turning due to bicornuate uterus) and I had a scheduled c/s but my doc still tested me. He said that you just never know what can happen and it's good to be prepared. However I do think, and I could be wrong, that if you don't have the test an end up delivering vaginally, they will give you antibiotics prophylactically.
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  • Temp6313048411121614Temp6313048411121614 member
    My OB didn't test me when I had my c/s.
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