I was GBS positive in my wee with DD. I spoke at length with my midwife friend about it and decided in the end that I would have the antibiotics. Reason being that as I was GBS positive and i declined antibiotics they would do a blood test at birth and if she showed signs of sepsis (certain raised numbers) they would want to take her to nnu for a course of antibiotics. The problem is that these numbers are raised just for the simple fact that she was born! As it happened I arrived at the hospital with 4 minutes to spare so didn't end up having time for antibiotics. The paed on the ward the night she was born decided to not do a blood test but she did have a blood test 14 hours later and sure enough she was showing signs of sepsis so ended up in nnu having antibiotics. It's a tough decision and it seems they try to get those antibiotics in one way or another!
Thanks for your reply
Can you tell me if she showed any signs of having problems when she was born and up until the time of her blood test ? How long was she in nnu for and what happened there ? We're there any feeding problems due to antibiotics or the sepsis ? Did you experience any problems with her at all due to the antibiotics she had ?


And thank you everyone who replied I appreciate it a lot