Just got a call from my midwife. Not a big deal, but another little wrench in the plans and another little thing to worry about. Turns out the first lab read was incorrect, I am Group Strep B positive. Right? Not such a big deal.
Except that I had this test done extra-early (i.e. 2 weeks ago) so that they could test the sensitivities of the strain and strategize about which antibiotics to give me given my very extensive and serious allergies to meds. But somehow the lab forgot, even though it was circled twice on the lab slip. So unless we have time to rerun the lab results before I go into labor, I'm consigned to the one and only drug treatment they're sure I'm not allergic to ... which just happens to make me throw up violently. My miwife assures me I'd probably be throwing up by this point anyway, but really? Do I need to go into this knowing that because of a lab error (which also wasn't caught so early ...) I'll be guaranteed to feel nauseous in labor in addition to whatever else is going on ...
And then I get the guilt trip about this being the best thing for the baby. Of course I'm not going to deliberately expose my child to a potentially fatal complication, but that doesn't make me feel better about the lab error, especially when I really was proactive about this issue weeks ago to try and avoid any time crunch ...
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