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I've signed

Have signed, have a friend who this was an issue for, because she was living in another country she got the appropriate care, so everything was fine. I hadn't even heard of it til she told me and I have had 3 children, the youngest is just 5.

Signed and passed it on to others too.

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a little nudged

because its a for a geat reason

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on my way 2 Thank's
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Great stuff- thanks from me and hopefully the many babies who could be potentially helped and perhaps even become Genes users of the future.

done

and passed to on friends ect

lynn x

on my way

thank you for letting us know about this great cause

lynn x

...yes, it really could mean as much.

(Hope this is appropriate board on which to post this - please move if necessary)

None of us would be researching our history if we hadn't been born and lived in the first place!

I've been a member of Genes for a number of years now and also a supporter of the charity Group B Strep Support. I would like to share the following with you, in the hope that some of you may like to support their petition:

"GBS Petition to the Prime Minister

In conjunction with Group B Strep Support
( www.gbss.org.uk ), Pregnancy & birth magazine is petitioning the Prime Minister for every woman in the UK to be offered a sensitive test for group B Streptococcus (GBS) at 35-37 weeks of pregnancy on the NHS, and for every pregnant woman to be given accurate information about GBS as a routine part of her antenatal care. If you would like to sign this petition, please visit

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/groupbstrep/

Carrying GBS is normal - up to 30% of adults do, usually in the intestines although in women it's very common in the vagina. Carrying GBS causes no symptoms and requires no treatment. GBS can be passed to a baby around labour but usually this isn’t a problem. Sadly though, for some babies, it can be serious, causing blood poisoning, pneumonia and meningitis. However, testing women late in pregnancy - and offering antibiotics through a vein at intervals once labour has started to those whose babies are at higher risk - would prevent 80% or more of all GBS infections in newborn babies. Reliable screening is not currently available in the UK but GBSS believes it should be – which is why we’ll be presenting the Prime Minister with the petition.

Please do ask your friends and family also to sign the petition – the more names on there, the more powerful the message it sends to the Prime Minister.

And, if you’d like to ask your MP to support this campaign, that would be fantastic"

Thanks, in hope, to anyone who feels they can help.