Comments on: The Thirty-Seventh Week of Pregnancy http://www.crazypregnancy.com/the-thirty-seventh-week-of-pregnancy/ Stories & Advice for Pregnant Mums Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:28:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jh http://www.crazypregnancy.com/the-thirty-seventh-week-of-pregnancy/comment-page-1/#comment-2 jh Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:33:58 +0000 http://www.crazypregnancy.com/?p=28#comment-2 Your information about Strep B is incorrect. If you test positive for Strep B, there is not a 99% chance of the baby getting it! This is from the CDC's website: However, a pregnant woman who is a group B strep carrier (tested positive) at full-term delivery who gets antibiotics can feel confident knowing that she has only a 1 in 4000 chance of delivering a baby with group B strep disease. If a pregnant woman who is a group B strep carrier does not get antibiotics at the time of delivery, her baby has a 1 in 200 chance of developing group B strep disease. This means that those infants whose mothers are group B strep carriers and do not get antibiotics have over 20 times the risk of developing disease than those who do receive treatment. http://www.cdc.gov/GroupBStrep/general/gen_public_faq.htm Don't post misinformation, especially on something that can be so scary to expectant mothers. Your information about Strep B is incorrect. If you test positive for Strep B, there is not a 99% chance of the baby getting it! This is from the CDC’s website:

However, a pregnant woman who is a group B strep carrier (tested positive) at full-term delivery who gets antibiotics can feel confident knowing that she has only a 1 in 4000 chance of delivering a baby with group B strep disease. If a pregnant woman who is a group B strep carrier does not get antibiotics at the time of delivery, her baby has a 1 in 200 chance of developing group B strep disease. This means that those infants whose mothers are group B strep carriers and do not get antibiotics have over 20 times the risk of developing disease than those who do receive treatment.

http://www.cdc.gov/GroupBStrep/general/gen_public_faq.htm

Don’t post misinformation, especially on something that can be so scary to expectant mothers.

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