{"id":1586,"date":"2010-11-09T20:48:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T19:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2010-11-09T22:46:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T21:46:50","slug":"positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"Positive<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

So at my midwife appointment last week I received the unwelcome news that my urine sample had tested positive for Group B Strep<\/a>. Bah. <\/p>\n

It’s not a big deal, really, and as far as I’m aware, even testing for it is relatively new in Sweden. I remember asking about it when I was pregnant with Tage, and my concern was literally met with a derisive chuckle — “In Sweden we don’t treat pregnancy like a disease.” Well, apparently that’s no longer the case, and the midwife informed me in an offhand manner that I could look forward to receiving IV antibiotics during labor. When she told me that, I didn’t say much of anything, as I’ve learned to pick my battles, but oh, when battle time comes, is it ever on<\/i>, because I am not — no way, no how — being chained to an IV pole while I’m laboring (not to mention that there are very, very many compelling reasons to steer clear of the antibiotics and not a one that convinces me it’s the right choice as standard procedure). <\/p>\n

I am so tired of having to fight for the birth experiences I want, but it seems every new pregnancy presents me with another issue to get my back up about. Oh, to have homebirth midwives available to me up here in the hinterlands …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So at my midwife appointment last week I received the unwelcome news that my urine sample had tested positive for Group B Strep. Bah. It’s not a big deal, really, and as far as I’m aware, even testing for it is relatively new in Sweden. I remember asking about it when I was pregnant with… Read More Positive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}