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LILY - USA Born November 18, 2015 Recurrent Late-onset Mother's GBS Status: Tested negative Gestational Age: 39 weeks Age Harmed: 10 days of age and then 30 days of age |
When I was pregnant I found out about being tested for GBS. I had no idea what it was. I asked my MIL what it was since she has been a nurse for 15 years. She explained in some detail what it was and that her son (my child's father) was born with it and had to be in NICU for 10 days. I didn't think anything else about it since I had tested negative for it.
My daughter was born happy & healthy at 7lbs 15oz. We were over the moon and excited to be home with our girl. She was 10 days old and was up all night (which was uncommon for her since she loves her sleep). She wasn't running a fever so we just thought it was typical newborn actions. Well, later that day we went to my mother-in-law's house and she was beginning to get extremely fussy so my MIL took her to walk around and try to calm her down. She noticed that my daughter started feeling extremely hot so we took her temp and she had a temp of 101.2. Immediately we took her to the ER and was admitted right away.
They did a spinal tap and drew blood on her to test her. We got back the results and it was GBS. Thankfully she didn't have meningitis. We actually still aren't sure what strain she had of GBS. They told us it wasn't in her bones or brain fluid so we were relieved. We stayed in the hospital with her for 20 days.
Thinking all of this nightmare was over we settled in at home only to be woken up with the same symptoms as before. We were transferred to a children's hospital about 45 minutes away. She had yet another spinal tap and was told GBS had come back, this time in her lymph nodes under her chin. We stayed another week in this hospital and were sent home with our daughter on a PIC line for at-home antibiotics. We realized quickly how lucky we are to still have our daughter with us, but still have no clue as to what brought her GBS on, what strain she was actually infected with, and why it came back.
— Michaela Rowland, USA
Michaela tells her story on Facebook.
My daughter was born happy & healthy at 7lbs 15oz. We were over the moon and excited to be home with our girl. She was 10 days old and was up all night (which was uncommon for her since she loves her sleep). She wasn't running a fever so we just thought it was typical newborn actions. Well, later that day we went to my mother-in-law's house and she was beginning to get extremely fussy so my MIL took her to walk around and try to calm her down. She noticed that my daughter started feeling extremely hot so we took her temp and she had a temp of 101.2. Immediately we took her to the ER and was admitted right away.
They did a spinal tap and drew blood on her to test her. We got back the results and it was GBS. Thankfully she didn't have meningitis. We actually still aren't sure what strain she had of GBS. They told us it wasn't in her bones or brain fluid so we were relieved. We stayed in the hospital with her for 20 days.
Thinking all of this nightmare was over we settled in at home only to be woken up with the same symptoms as before. We were transferred to a children's hospital about 45 minutes away. She had yet another spinal tap and was told GBS had come back, this time in her lymph nodes under her chin. We stayed another week in this hospital and were sent home with our daughter on a PIC line for at-home antibiotics. We realized quickly how lucky we are to still have our daughter with us, but still have no clue as to what brought her GBS on, what strain she was actually infected with, and why it came back.
— Michaela Rowland, USA
Michaela tells her story on Facebook.
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To learn more about the Signs & Symptoms of Preterm Labor, click HERE.
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To learn more about Why Membranes Should NOT Be Stripped, click HERE.
To learn more about How to Help Protect Your Baby from Group B Strep (GBS), click HERE.