This is my sixth child and I would like to have a homebirth. However, I had Group B strep in two of my pregnancies. Can women who have had GBS in a prior pregnancy have a homebirth. She has assisted at over 1,000 births and is currently teaching in the nurse-midwifery program at the University of Minnesota. Let me speak a moment from the medical mode.
Beta strep has great potential to cause severe morbidity and even mortality in the neonate.
Despite appropriate testing and treatment, babies still may get very sick from this infection. Under the care of a nurse-midwife or physician, antibiotics could be given in labor, but the traditional midwife is not licensed to acquire or dispense medications. But I don't believe a nurse-midwifery home birth practice would agree to a home birth with a mother who has had beta strep. If the birth you are planning is with a traditional midwife, then I do not believe it would be a good idea to attempt it. Your baby will need close observation and medication after birth.