RH Negative blood

Hey Ladies,

im not pregnant yet but wanted to get some info before i do...
I have RH Negative blood and after my miscarriage they gave me anti D. What i wanted to know is that with the next bub do i need to get an anti D injection everytime i have bleeding (lets hope i never have bleeding again but ya know)
What about implantation bleeding?
Just want to make sure that i know what to do next time

I am not sure about implantation bleeding, but any other bleeding would mean you need a shot of Anti-D. They have to give it to you in case baby has positive blood.

Perhaps someone else will know, or you could talk to your doctor or heathline about the implantation bleeding possibility.

I had bleeding on and off throughout my pregnancy with Sam and only had the injection once she was born and they had found out she was a positive.

I am Rh Neg and so is my DH so I don't need them. If your DP is Rh Pos then you will need the jab, if heis neg then you may not need it. I had one given to me at 8 weeks preg with Andrew and none afer that as we found out that DH was Rh Neg too.

I was given Anti D each time I had a bleed, I also had to have it after my CVS just in case, and I had it after she was born too - so about 4 times all up!

Turns out DD does have positive blood, lucky for her!

I haven't read the replies, but I am -ve and Hannah is +ve so I was given Anti-D to stop my body fighting any subsequent pregnancies.

My mw told me a story of one of her Mums:
A few years ago she had a +ve bub (she's -ve). She refused the anti-d (on the basis that it's a blood product - even though there is no risk involved). He next pregnancy was full of complications. Her baby had to have 4 inutero blood transfusions only to be born at 37 weeks and die 5 weeks later.
Wow. Way to bring the thread down.

I'm just a firm believer in doing it if it's even a possibility that you'll need it

Unfortunately, I somehow built up antibodies when I was preggies with my DS. At 28 weeks, my bloods were normal. I had more bloods done at 37 weeks and discovered that I'd built up antibodies. To this day, we don't know how it happened as I didn't have any bleeding.

Overseas, it a common thing that RH negative women are given anti D at 28 weeks to avoid this happening. Apparently it is not done in NZ because it hasn't crossed all the red tape

We would like another baby, so will take the risk. After having a low risk awesome pregnancy, I am now looking at a high risk pregnancy.

Sorry, didn't mean to make this thread about me, but I would definiately be asking for an anti D injection if I had any bleeding (or at least ask my doctor/mw if I needed one).

Edited by NikkiB

i think i only got so many anti-d injections because i didnt know james fathers blood type so as a precaution she did it for me