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What Precautions Should Be Taken During Pregnancies When Blood Group Does Not Match?
Hi,I am a 29 year old male with O-negative blood group.
We received a marriage proposal from a family whose daughter (proposed girl) is B-positive.I am writing this just out of my curiosity and to clear my fear about the problems that blood group mismatches could occur to the future babies. Heard a lot of stories regarding this. My question is what are the things to be taken care especially during the pregnancies. Because I have read that certain kind of injections (shots) has to be taken during certain period of pregnancies.
We received a marriage proposal from a family whose daughter (proposed girl) is B-positive.I am writing this just out of my curiosity and to clear my fear about the problems that blood group mismatches could occur to the future babies. Heard a lot of stories regarding this. My question is what are the things to be taken care especially during the pregnancies. Because I have read that certain kind of injections (shots) has to be taken during certain period of pregnancies.
Wed, 19 Mar 2014
Hello
Thanks for writing to us with your health concern.
The problem in most pregnancies is when the mother is Rh negative.
When the father is Rh positive, then the baby is likely to be Rh positive.
In this case, during pregnancy, small amount of blood from the positive baby goes to the mother's circulation.
The mother develops antibodies against this, and then the antibodies get passed to the baby, leading to the destruction of the red blood cells of the baby.
This puts the baby at risk of fetal anemia, swelling, even death.
However, if the mother is B positive, and the father is O negative, there is no issue whatsoever.
Even if the baby is Negative, then it will be safe, and mother will not produce any antibodies to this negative blood group.
In case the baby is positive, then the mother is positive, so again no issue.
So dont worry.
You can go ahead with the marriage proposal with any girl, even if she is negative or positive.
You will not have any kind of problems with girls of any blood group.
So stop worrying.
Please feel free to discuss any issues with me anytime by writing in at -
http://doctor.healthcaremagic.com/doctors/dr-aarti-abraham/64623
Take care.
Thanks for writing to us with your health concern.
The problem in most pregnancies is when the mother is Rh negative.
When the father is Rh positive, then the baby is likely to be Rh positive.
In this case, during pregnancy, small amount of blood from the positive baby goes to the mother's circulation.
The mother develops antibodies against this, and then the antibodies get passed to the baby, leading to the destruction of the red blood cells of the baby.
This puts the baby at risk of fetal anemia, swelling, even death.
However, if the mother is B positive, and the father is O negative, there is no issue whatsoever.
Even if the baby is Negative, then it will be safe, and mother will not produce any antibodies to this negative blood group.
In case the baby is positive, then the mother is positive, so again no issue.
So dont worry.
You can go ahead with the marriage proposal with any girl, even if she is negative or positive.
You will not have any kind of problems with girls of any blood group.
So stop worrying.
Please feel free to discuss any issues with me anytime by writing in at -
http://doctor.healthcaremagic.com/doctors/dr-aarti-abraham/64623
Take care.
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