Candace Owen's "Birth Story" is DANGEROUS medical misinformation...

She should be ashamed! I lost my son at 2 days old due to GBS. We didn’t know because I hadn’t been tested. I’m disgusted with her misinformation and I’m extremely upset and aggravated with her whole video.

I was GBS Pos when I had my daughter. During delivery, the Drs failed to administer antibiotics. Because of this, my daughter developed spinal meningitis and almost died. PLEASE take GBS serious! The Drs test for this for a reason!

Yes, it’s frustrating to be woken up for regular health tests for you and your baby. You know what else is frustrating? Your baby being sick and the hospital not being as attentive as they were. I imagine that’s much worse.

I liked that the nurses kept checking on us. Me and my husband felt we were being very well taken care of. 🙂

My beautiful son Andrew died 24 hours after his birth from GBS infection. He became septic and there was nothing that could save him. That was in 1987. I’d give anything to have had that test. All these years later their is a hole in my heart. The guilt I’ve lived with almost did me in.

As a European I must say I don't understand this woman. I'm 20 weeks pregnant and feel so lucky and blessed to have such good, attentive medical care. Knowing that not everyone in the US can have access to what she's had, I can't believe she's complaing. She's acting like she was at a hotel instead of a hospital. Such entitled behavour.

I almost died at 10 days old of GBS in the 90s. It was very upsetting for my parents hearing that I had a low chance of making it. My mom cried while talking about it recently. How Candace can say that this is a thing that virtually never happens is beyond me and is such a harmful thing to say.

It just feels like Candace is so unnecessarily combative about everything

Neonatologist here! Thank you so much for this video. You broke down the neonatal risks of GBS excellently and so thoughtfully. Since I wasn't there, I can't speak to any of the issues with miscommunication, but when I first read about her story, I felt so sad for her nursing team. I imagined how frustrating that must have been for everyone involved. Also I'd like to add- the GBS guidelines have changed quite drastically over the past 20 years. Now we do way fewer blood tests on, and give fewer antibiotics to well-appearing babies whose mothers had GBS colonization. Just like you explained brilliantly, we're all just following the evidence....

One of the other problems with saying the names of providers out loud is that because of HIPAA law, those providers CANNOT come out publicly to explain the situation or give their perspective on the interaction, because they would be giving out confidential patient information. It effectively means that patients can trash providers any which way and they cannot defend themselves at all. This also puts them at risk of PHYSICAL danger and abuse.

Wow, when I gave birth to my daughter in a hospital in Zambia at 7:30 am, I didn't see a single nurse or anyone until 12 midday. I was so desperately thirsty! My mother-in-law was thankfully there and she helped me to clean up in a bath after the birth. I don't know what i would've done without her. I've been in hospital many times since then in South Africa and it's really normal to be checked on regularly. In fact, it's a good thing. She was privileged to get all these tests on her newborn. And anyway, she's not going to get much sleep at home. The baby will keep her awake. I'm shocked at her video.

I agree with Candace on the sleep issue. I had four healthy deliveries and didn’t sleep a wink until I got home because of how many times I was woken up by nurses. When I had a twenty-week loss and was in the hospital for blood loss and infection, I was so thankful for my mom because she sat in my room and would guard the door if I was asleep. I remember one time specifically because I had just barely dozed off(that stage where you still hear what’s going on, but can’t really engage) and the door opened. I just heard my mom whisper yell “No! She just got to sleep! She’s been through too much and needs to rest! Get out! Come back when she’s awake!” I felt such gratitude for my mother in that moment. No nurses bothered me again while I was sleeping, aside from one middle of the night check.

I almost died of GBS when I was born. It was the 90s, so testing was available, but my mom tested negative. I got pneumonia, I was septic. There were major concerns about how quickly the infection could develop into meningitis. To this day over 2 decades later, my parents still cry when talking about being told that I had a 50/50 chance of making it through that first night, seeing me in an incubator, and the weeks that I spent in the hospital. I am so lucky, and so thankful to nurse who saw the signs and to the NICU team, that I am alive don’t have any disabilities related to the infection. I have had more respiratory issues than most people my age, but it could have been so, so much worse. That is not zero harm.

My daughter was born in April 1992 with GBS septicemia. At the time of her birth they had just begun to screen for it but I wasn't screened. My daughter spent 10 days in the NICU and had learning disabilities and developmental delays... she is fine now at age 30 but things never came easy for her. As a mom, I will never forget how sick my newborn was and that the doctor told me she only had about a 50% chance to make it to the next morning It really was a race between the bacteria and the antibiotics.

Candace is definitely not wrong about the number of interruptions from hospital staff when you're trying to rest postpartum. I had a c-section so I ended up having to stay for almost a week after delivery and it was brutal. They were constantly coming in and my husband and I were both exhausted (he was really sick at the time). It is what it is and we just accepted it. I'm glad they checked on me and my baby often to make sure that nothing was wrong, but the pushy photographers and other nonsense didn't need to happen either. Not a perfect system, by any means. Going home felt like a vacation, it was so nice to finally be alone and be able to rest. But overall, I understand why the hospital does the things they do. It's to prevent unnecessary illness and death, even if it seems extreme at the time.

I’m sorry, as a black woman who just had her first baby last year, my biggest fear was not coming home, dying during delivery or being neglected. But instead I had the most attentive nurses who checked on me and my son non stop and it made me feel so safe and cared for. I was also GBS + and would not even think twice to not receive antibiotics. I’m gonna do everything in my baby’s best interest. I’m not gonna go on the chance that I may no longer be GBS positive and roll the dice on treatment. You gave birth at 7pm candance, I gave birth at 2:55 in the morning on a Wednesday and was admitted on Monday for an induction, 12 hours in triage before getting a room and then 24 hours of laboring before needing a c section, was I tired hell yes, I was in the hospital for a total of 7 days, was I mad that my medical team was checking on me and making me lose sleep? Nope I was very very grateful! I actually missed them so much when I came home. They made me feel like VIP and calmed all of my fears.

My oldest brother died to group b strep less than 24 hours after birth since back then they didnt yet test for it in my country. They tried antibiotics after he started showing symptoms but at that point it was too late for him. I find it sad that people openly demonize antibiotics because they are one of the leading reasons infant mortality is much lesser in western countries together with vaccines.

As a nurse myself this is so frustrating. If we check on a patient too much, I’m a bad nurse. I don’t check on a patient enough, I’m a bad nurse.

The Dolly Parton book people were the least annoying thing about being in the hospital!! My daughter is now 2yrs old and still getting these AMAZING free books from Dolly's organization and we are so grateful that we signed that card!!

Candace comes across as the most entitled Karen you can possibly imagine: wealthy, spoiled, DEEPLY uninformed; she thinks she knows better than every nurse and doctor she meets. And after having time to think about her poor behavior, she DOUBLES DOWN on it. It’s exhausting to watch.