Late onset GBS in baby (warning may be distressing to pg women)

[Arcadia]

Yes this is different from maternal GBS, meaning the baby picked it up in the post-birth environment, so it doesn't matter if the mother tested positive or negative. The baby contracted it from the home/other people.

Yes it comes and goes which is why testing is so unreliable.

[RainbowRiver]

I have only been tested once out of 4 babies, that being #4. It was negative (39+1 it was done when waters broke). However, my baby was admitted to scn 24 hours later, notes say sepsis, 5 days of strong antibiotics. GBS was never mentioned, and never told what it was (other then they think it was due to PROM, leaving them ruptured to long + me only getting 1 dose of AB in labour). She also had a lumber puncture on day 5 to rule out meningitis

RIP baby girl...

[Teeki]

How awful, that poor family

I was tested last pregnancy but really wasn't told much about it. I certainly wasn't told about late onset and what to look out for.