I wonder if you can help or advise me. I am currently pregnant with my second child at 30 weeks. As with my first birth, I am following the Mongan Hypnobirth method and my first choice was for either a home birth or delivery at the Midwife-led unit at Oswestry.
Unfortunately, my first urine sample at 12 weeks was positive for Group B strep. and therefore, I have been advised to have IV antibiotics and to give birth at the Shrewsbury hospital. A four-hour plus stay during labour at the large and busy hospital in Shrewsbury is not an option I want to take unless absolutely unavoidable.
I have requested a second vaginal and rectal swab at 36 weeks but have been told that regardless of a negative result I would still be advised to have antibiotics and if I declined would be strongly advised to spend time at Shrewsbury for my baby to be monitored and have a blood test. I have spoken to my GP but he is unable to attend a home birth to administer the antibiotics. I have also failed so far to find a way to get the antibiotics administered privately. Has anyone out there come across similar scenario or had athe same expereince where a mother has managed to have IV antibiotics for a home birth.
Thanks for your help in this matter,
Emma-Kate Lanyon
