Our story & Journey

This blog, is about the loss of our beautiful baby girl Kyla Sian, who gained her angel wings to early 7-3-14, its our story, our journey, our hopes & dreams, and my feelings on coping with this huge loss that no person should ever have to face.

Monday, 20 October 2014

Capture your grief - Day 19 - Give

Capture your grief

Day 19 - Give

All I want to give is knowledge to pregnant women on Group B strep, so they have the knowledge and the choice to request a test!
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Group B Streptococcus, or Streptococcus agalactiae, is a type of bacteria that is naturally found in the digestive tract and birth canal in up to 1 in 4 pregnant women. Unfortunately, babies can be infected by GBS before birth and up to about 6 months of age due to their underdeveloped immune systems.

I don't want anyone else to have to suffer the loss of a perfect baby when such a simple test could possibly pick up the GBS and they get the antibiotic's during labour that are needed to protect baby.
At the moment all I can do is give advise and give people the knowledge I now have on GBS.

http://www.groupbstrepinternational.org/what-is-group-b-strep/

http://gbss.org.uk/what-is-gbs/for-pregnant-women/

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