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MARIAN - USA
Born January 18, 2019 Early-onset Mother's GBS Status: Tested positive Gestational Age: 37 weeks Age Harmed: 3 days |
I am the grandmother to Marian and am also a OB RN that has worked for 37 years taking care of moms and babies. I knew about GBS and about treating GBS positive moms but I never really experienced the outcome of GBS until my granddaughter, Marian, who was born at 37 weeks gestation.
I knew that my daughter was GBS positive and that it can cause early labor. I had a bad feeling right from the beginning that something was not right but I chalked it up to knowing too much as an OB nurse. I even thought about sending my daughter the Signs & Symptoms of GBS Infection that your organization has but didn't want to scare her. My daughter also came in complete and got only one dose of antibiotics 2 hours before delivery. They stayed at the hospital for the required 48 hours and no blood testing for positive infection was done on Marian at the hospital as per recommended protocol now.
They came home Sunday afternoon and Monday evening my daughter called me in tears saying that Marian hadn't wanted to eat for most of the day. She had been breastfeeding well before then. I told her to immediately take her to the closest ED and to tell them that she was GBS positive before having the baby, which she did. They did a workup and admitted her to the pediatric unit. By morning she was in the PICU, intubated, in an induced coma with all kind if lines in her. The doctors told my daughter and her husband that Marian had sepsis and meningitis from GBS and that she had brain swelling that had caused a stroke and possible seizure activity and that one side of her brain was no longer functioning and that she might not survive.
Our family are Christ followers and believe in the power of prayer. We had everyone we know praying for Marian. After several days in the PICU they transferred her to the main children's hospital in downtown Chicago for more special care for her brain. All told, she was in the hospital for 21 days (on antibiotics the whole time). She was extubated after about a week and a half and taken out of the induced coma. She was breathing on her own with some oxygen and eventually taken off the oxygen. She was eventually able to breastfeed after weeks of being tube fed and bottle fed breast milk. She came home with no physical deficits noted by the doctors. She is a healthy 4 month old now. There still may be some developmental deficits down the road but so far she acts like a normal newborn and we are so blessed and grateful to have Marian in our lives!!
-Denise
Denise wants her OB unit that she works at to have discharge info on the signs and symptoms of GBS infection given to all moms but especially to GBS positive moms.
I knew that my daughter was GBS positive and that it can cause early labor. I had a bad feeling right from the beginning that something was not right but I chalked it up to knowing too much as an OB nurse. I even thought about sending my daughter the Signs & Symptoms of GBS Infection that your organization has but didn't want to scare her. My daughter also came in complete and got only one dose of antibiotics 2 hours before delivery. They stayed at the hospital for the required 48 hours and no blood testing for positive infection was done on Marian at the hospital as per recommended protocol now.
They came home Sunday afternoon and Monday evening my daughter called me in tears saying that Marian hadn't wanted to eat for most of the day. She had been breastfeeding well before then. I told her to immediately take her to the closest ED and to tell them that she was GBS positive before having the baby, which she did. They did a workup and admitted her to the pediatric unit. By morning she was in the PICU, intubated, in an induced coma with all kind if lines in her. The doctors told my daughter and her husband that Marian had sepsis and meningitis from GBS and that she had brain swelling that had caused a stroke and possible seizure activity and that one side of her brain was no longer functioning and that she might not survive.
Our family are Christ followers and believe in the power of prayer. We had everyone we know praying for Marian. After several days in the PICU they transferred her to the main children's hospital in downtown Chicago for more special care for her brain. All told, she was in the hospital for 21 days (on antibiotics the whole time). She was extubated after about a week and a half and taken out of the induced coma. She was breathing on her own with some oxygen and eventually taken off the oxygen. She was eventually able to breastfeed after weeks of being tube fed and bottle fed breast milk. She came home with no physical deficits noted by the doctors. She is a healthy 4 month old now. There still may be some developmental deficits down the road but so far she acts like a normal newborn and we are so blessed and grateful to have Marian in our lives!!
-Denise
Denise wants her OB unit that she works at to have discharge info on the signs and symptoms of GBS infection given to all moms but especially to GBS positive moms.
To learn more about Perinatal & GBS Misconceptions, click HERE.
To learn more about the Signs & Symptoms of Preterm Labor, click HERE.
To learn more about the Signs & Symptoms of GBS Infection, click HERE.
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.
To learn more about the Signs & Symptoms of Preterm Labor, click HERE.
To learn more about the Signs & Symptoms of GBS Infection, click HERE.
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.