Bacterial Vaginosis During Pregnancy - Sparta,NJ

Bonnie,

Carcinogen. Nope.

Crosses placenta AND carcinogen. Definitely not.

Doctor prescribes both -- RUN to a new doctor! *It is not too late!* (A friend of mine got ditched by hers and had to find a doctor (wound up being 2 days before her twins were born) so it IS possible, and you have a few weeks hopefully in which to interview, etc. (run a question by here for people in the NJ area you are in) and if you don't find one, I would consider TRAVELING for a decent Doctor!)

I wish I could send you to my doc!

Find another doc, and soon. Likely you will wind up with a c-section also with this person - another diagnosis and procedure to avoid at all costs! Just for personal interest - find out what his c-section rate is - it should be available information. THEN decide if you want to stay with him after this prescription!

Oh, and by the way, SOY is found to be a carcinogen in animals. It's just not publicized. Check out Weston A Price . org (they have a video out...) -- This FLOORED me after all the soy milk and soy nuts and soy this and that and processed foods that sneak soy in there (including CHOCOLATE).

Can't tell you what to do - but I do commend you for even looking at the tube and checking into it. My first pregnancy, I wouldn't have even questioned the doc had something like this come up. I was so bubbly to be even pregnant I thought everything was just hunky dory from my doc.

Good luck and congratulations (hopefully not too early!)
M.

ask your dr more questions. sometimes the risk of not taking it is worse. I had an infection after my cerclage and had to go on a high dose of antibiotic, but if i didn't take it the infection could have been worse and made the stitch pointless.

I had a BV infection when I was pregnant my first time possibly due to a progesterone cream I had used the first couple of weeks to make sure i did not lose them. I took a pill for a few days to take care of it and it did not come back. It was found early, around 18 weeks.

I also had BV during my pregnancy. I was given metro gel as well, to insert for 5 days. Everything with me and the baby turned out great. things can be a lot worse if you don't take the meds, let alone be very uncomfortable for you. BV seems to be as common as a yeast infection these days. Unfortunately, it won't go away on its own. What goes up, must come down. Try and wear a panty sheild so you won't feel so yucky down there. You and the baby will be fine.

Isn't that strep B? It's a totally naturally occuring bacteria (mostly noted during pregnancy because 1- you've got everyone's freaking hands up there, and 2- there are no other indications of it, goes away on it's own usually, and you're tested for everything during pregnancy).

Don't sweat it. They'll give you antibiotics in your IV when you're delivering, and test you and baby afterwards just to make sure the infection didn't spread during delivery. It almost always goes away by your 6 week check up. Your hubs can't contract it; it's something that only plagues us ladies, and usually isn't serious.

This is one of the reasons they give ALL newborns the gel stuff on their eyes, since that's the number one place a newborn will contract something from mom during vaginal deliveries. It's very common, so relax :)

I would ask your Dr. for his professional opinion. You can't always believe what you read on the internet.

I had BV, Trich (which is a bacterial STD that I apparently contracted while I was on a short two month break from my boyfriend and had yet to get diagnosed and treated, but I digress), and yeast infections for the first trimester of my pregnancy, which is the time you have to worry more then anything and what you put in your body. I literally was on some kind of antibiotic for 3 months before everything finally balanced back to normal. I took Metronidazole, it didn't all clear, I took another dose of it, still didn't all clear, then took Tridazole (I think that's what it's called and is actually much worse to take during pregnancy then Metronidazole), then took Diflucan, and finally I had no more problems. Oh and I also took penicillin after all this because I got a bladder infection RIGHT after I got all this cleared up. I say this all to say, take the antibiotics. I'm currently looking at my beautiful baby boy sleeping away and he is perfectly healthy. If you don't treat it and have it taken care of, your doctor will also probably not let you deliver normally because of the infection.

I just read some of your responses and will say BV is not the same as Strep B. They have to be treated with completely different antibiotics. With that said though, because you have BV now, they will automatically give you the penicillin IV when you go into labor because of the problems your body was already exposed to. I don't know what exactly it is but my OB said that if you have an infection that must be treated while pregnant, it's an automatic thing. I didn't even have to take a Strep B test because of all the issues I had the first trimester. Don't stress about it though. Your OB wouldn't have given you the prescription if it was strongly likely to harm your baby. Like someone else said, trust your doctor, not the internet.