Thank you all. It all helps, and makes me feel better. I have made an apt with a gp this arvo to talk to him about it, and am wondering if he will try and 'scare' me into having the test or drip as the nurse from the gp clinic just did on the phone. She just said to me that if I have the infection and don't have the drip my baby could die! Just like that. No statistics, no we can help your baby if it does catch an infection, just IT WILL DIE! Gee, thanks.

I am reading up on the web about the stats etc, and it seems that even if I do have GBS, I'd still rather not have the antibiotics for the simple fact that it doesn't stop baby getting an infection, and can cause them to be much more resiliant to antibiotics for blood infections they are more likely to get down the track (from me having the antibiotics), and have 'super bugs', which are more likely to be fatal than if they caught a GBS infection from me during birth because I didn't have the drip.

Thank you Alan, I was positive that there was a oral antibiotic available (but don't really want that either for the reasons stated above), and it is frustrating that no one seems to like to tell us neeble-phobics that there IS an alternative. Another question for you; If I don't agree with something a nurse/dr tells me in terms of I 'must' have a drip for something, how can I get them to admit that (as far as I know) there is always an oral antibiotic available, and that I am willing to accept that their effects may just take longer than a drip, without going nuts at them(and asked to leave the hosp!)?

I would much rather run the less than 1% chance of baby catching some GBS infection from me and take care of that, than the pretty much guaranteed reaction of me just going into entire shutdown if I have a drip.