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I found this article to be very informative: https://evidencebasedbirth.com/groupbstrep/

Here is a quote:

"Taking probiotics (lactobacilli) may lessen your chances of being colonized with GBS. In 2016, researchers published the first randomized trial on using probiotics to switch GBS status from positive to negative (Ho et al. 2016). In this study, researchers randomly assigned 110 women in Taiwan who were GBS positive at 35-37 weeks to take either two probiotic capsules each night at bedtime, or two placebo capsules. Both the pregnant women and the researchers were blinded to the treatment, meaning that nobody knew who was taking a placebo or probiotic while the study was being carried out. The treatment for each person lasted 3 weeks on average, and the GBS culture test was repeated when women returned to the hospital to give birth. The results showed that 43% of GBS positive people who took probiotics were GBS negative when they went into labor, compared to 14% in the placebo group. The researchers state that although more research is needed, probiotics show promise for GBS prevention during pregnancy and birth."

@LindsayInNY: I’d assume taking them to avoid the positive in the first place would be the same! I was gbs + first pregnancy,, negative the second pregnancy,, and this time I had a GBS UTI at 8 weeks so they won’t even bother swabbing me later on and will automatically give me the antibiotics 🤷‍♀️. It doesn’t bother me, but I can understand wanting to avoid it!