It is important to do the GBS screening test where they’ll swap your vagina for infections. If you’re tested positive, you’ll need antibiotics during labour. If you don’t, it can pass to baby and can be harmful. It can also cause complications to baby as well as fatality.
I was GBS positive and had to be administered antibiotics during my labour for my firstborn.
Go and read up about GBS positive and how it can affect babies then decide if it is necessary to skip that. After 39 weeks of you haven’t given birth, they’ll do a membrane sweep to loosen the amniotic sac. This will result you to go into labour within next few days.