Things I learned today...

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• imrachellea member

  September 2015 edited September 2015

  Yes me me! I had wondered if GBS could come and go that easily, I feel like they should test much closer to delivery! I already eat a lot of yogurt, Greek daily, but I will definitely eat even more as we approach EDD! Thanks Lately sugar had not been my friend, so that works in my favor now!

  

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• thaisac1 member

  September 2015

  CCLow87 said:

  I met with my midwife today for the first time for an initial meeting. My husband and I LOVED her! Anyway, I wanted to pass on a few things she told me that may help some ladies here. Specifically, I know someone was already tested positive for GBS... Maybe @imrachellea ?? I could be way off!
  
  Anyway, she said that eating lots of good yogurts and keifer (spelling??) during pregnancy can help eliminate GBS. She also said that you can be positive at 36 weeks and it can be negative by 39. Oh, limiting sugar intake has also been shown to help.
  
  I was also worried about my high BP in both pregnancies. She explained the midwives view on high blood pressure to me, which I had never heard and can't recreate now, but she said that eating plenty of protein and salt (Yep, salt!) as well as getting plenty of calories to ensure your blood volume is where it should be could help keep SOME blood pressure down around normal. She did clarify that there are other reasons for high blood pressure that couldn't be solved that way. But hopefully that helps some! And eating healthy isn't a bad side effect either!
  
  Okay, stepping off by crunchy mama soapbox for the day.

  Hmmm I don't understand the salt connection ... Did she explain?

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• momofmanyinthemitten member

  September 2015

  My doula recommended probiotics to keep the GBS away, and it worked for my third. I also waited until 37/38wks was to test (I had an inkling she'd be early and she was).

  
  

   
  
  

  

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• CCLow87 member

  September 2015

  thaisac1 said:

  I met with my midwife today for the first time for an initial meeting. My husband and I LOVED her! Anyway, I wanted to pass on a few things she told me that may help some ladies here. Specifically, I know someone was already tested positive for GBS... Maybe @imrachellea ?? I could be way off! Anyway, she said that eating lots of good yogurts and keifer (spelling??) during pregnancy can help eliminate GBS. She also said that you can be positive at 36 weeks and it can be negative by 39. Oh, limiting sugar intake has also been shown to help. I was also worried about my high BP in both pregnancies. She explained the midwives view on high blood pressure to me, which I had never heard and can't recreate now, but she said that eating plenty of protein and salt (Yep, salt!) as well as getting plenty of calories to ensure your blood volume is where it should be could help keep SOME blood pressure down around normal. She did clarify that there are other reasons for high blood pressure that couldn't be solved that way. But hopefully that helps some! And eating healthy isn't a bad side effect either! Okay, stepping off by crunchy mama soapbox for the day.

  Hmmm I don't understand the salt connection ... Did she explain?

  She did! I will likely do a poor job of explaining it though.. She said that salt and protein are what hold fluid in your blood during pregnancy and help your blood volume to be the 1.5X normal that it should be. When you don't get enough of one of those two things, the fluid leaks out of your blood and causes swelling. Along with that, when you blood volume decreases, your veins/arteries??? (like I said, doing a poor job) constrict and result in high blood pressure. She also said that not getting enough calories can have the same affect. 

  
  

  Here's a couple thinks that might help:

  
  

  https://icpa4kids.org/Wellness-Articles/the-brewer-pregnancy-diet.html
  

  
  

  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24296282 
  

  
  

  https://www.authenticparenting.info/2013/01/the-importance-of-salt-intake-during.html
  

  
  

  
  

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