Damnit

My GSB test was positive. Group B Strep is a bacteria harmless to adults that lives in the various private bits of up to 40% of women. In infants it can prove to be life threatening in rare cases. This is why pregnant women get a strep B test between 35 and 37 weeks. I had mine last week. Tonight I found out it was positive.

It's a simple enough fix - you get IV antibiotics in labor after your water breaks every 4 hours. I just really didn't want to have an IV. Luckily I'll be able to ask for a heparin lock so that they don't have to keep reinserting an IV or leave me hooked up to tubes and a pole. That means I'll still get to have the mobility I want during labor and delivery. I just don't get away with no IV as we'd hoped.

I'm still a little bummed about it, though. Nothing I did could have either prevented or brought on the strep B, so I can't feel bad about being a carrier. At least there's that.