hi i can understand if she feels a little confused im a neg and whenever i have a pregnancy i have to have the anti d injection it doesnt hurt or anything but helps your body keep a child that maybe a different blood type to yourself...

your body sees the baby a first time round as a virus nice i know but once it has established this it then builds up the immune system to then reject another baby with a different blood group as it sees this as another virus, if anti d isnt taken then it can lead to miscarriage which is harsh but its our bodies way of saying we can cope!!!! unfortunately i wasnt offered this on a few occassions and have had to reep what it has sown but advise your sis to have the jab it doesnt hurt and even if she doesnt want anymore children at least she has the choice...

hope this helps.

sheila

I'm O neg and it has to do with the RH factor.  Not with the type of blood you have.  If you are negative this can cause antibodies in your blood stream to be created and they can cross the placenta attacking the babies blood.  If you are not give the shot for this then what can happen is the baby can be born anemic, severely anemic or can die from this.  But this is only when the babies father is not negative as well.  If both of you are negative then the babies blood will be negative, but you still need to get the shot in the even the father is not and a later pregnancy has a baby with positive blood.  Does this make sense?  The shots you get are to trick the body into thinking that it already has the anti-bodies and thus won't actually make them.  I never got the shot after giving birth, only at 28 weeks. 

This is normal for women with a negative blood type. The injections are called Anti-D as the others have said. they dont hurt at all, I just had my 36 week one on Tuesday. Its because there can be complications if negative and positive blood mix, the mothers body will basically see it as a threat. She will also get a blood test before the injections to check antibody levels so like Arna says, we are pincushions!!

I had the injections for both of my pregnancies.

A yes, us negative blood group mums are really made into pincushions in pregnancy.  I still have to have my needles too, being A-.

The needles your sister will receive are called Anti-D.  It is usually given to those women who are of a negative blood group, but whose partners are of a positive blood group.  My partner is A+, so I have to have the needles.

It is not usually given in the first pregnancy, but is urged in consecutive pregnancies.  The reason being, there could be a possible blood spill between mum and bubs either during pregnancy or labour and birth.  This spill has the potential to cause issues with the mother's anti-bodies, and her body will fight very hard to kill the baby off next time round.

A baby born under these circumstances requires and immediate, full blood transfusion in order to survive, and the survival rate is still not that great.

Getting the needles means you take that risk factor away.  It is just jabbed into the top of the leg and then off you go.

I am A negative blood type. After the birth of my first child I had to have an injection called anti-d. It's to stop cross contamination of blood cells, positive and negative types. When this occurs the body can nautrally abort the baby. I also have to these injections through this pregnancy. It is necessary for all negative blood type mum's to have to prevent the body from trying to abort the baby.

Hope that makes sense,

fi xo