“I look at the percentages, and the risk of what kind of infections you could get. It is something you normally could treat with oral medication. ‘Is it worth [exposing the baby to antibiotics]?’, I am left thinking. Well, then it would be easier to say ’no, I want it afterwards’.” (P3)
Some of the women argued how they tried to avoid perfume and other things to be cautious about during pregnancy and they considered antibiotics as being yet another thing to avoid exposing your unborn baby to. A few women also expressed how 4% risk of getting an infection seemed very low. One of these women had previously had a wound-infection herself after a caesarean delivery: