To all rhesus negative women – A Must Rea

You are very welcome. I'm pleased you are finally getting the Anti-D

Mamapickle.....if you have any bleeding during your pregnancy, you should have the anti-D jab within 72hrs of it starting to prevent the antibodies developing. If you have no noticable bleeding then yes, you only receive it after baby is born IF baby is Rh+.
However as in Nikki's original post, it can be offered at 28 and 34 wks as a preventative.......so cases like hers and mine don't happen!! I developed antibodies during my last pregnancy, at some point between 28 & 36 wks. Thankfully my antibody levels this pregnancy are remaining low and steady.


Edited by mumoftwins

Hmm so I'm 30 weeks and never got the injection.... Totally forgot bout it!!
Do you need it while your pregnant if you haven't had any bleeding or anything?

My MW said to keep an eye on any bleeding due to my blood type, I don't have any antibodies - as at my initial blood test to confirm my pregnancy.
I will look at getting the BT done again at 28 and 34 weeks - and depending on the results get anti-D shots.
I don't remember getting one after my termination and I don't have any antibodies.
My understanding from my GP and MW is that they don't automatically give you anti-D after delivery any more.

caliandjack wrote: My MW said to keep an eye on any bleeding due to my blood type, I don't have any antibodies - as at my initial blood test to confirm my pregnancy. I will look at getting the BT done again at 28 and 34 weeks - and depending on the results get anti-D shots. I don't remember getting one after my termination and I don't have any antibodies. My understanding from my GP and MW is that they don't automatically give you anti-D after delivery any more.

Definitely still get given anti-D jab after birth if your baby is Rh+.
As far as I'm aware there is no routine blood test at 34 wks (28wks is glucose test..antibodies is one of the additional things checked at this time) and as Emmi said...once you have the anti-bodies there is no way to get rid of them.


Edited by mumoftwins

I will look at getting anti-d after the birth, as its highly likely baby will be R+ as DH is.

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Well my baby has arrived!!
We had a wee girl on the 30th of July and everything is going great!
She is A- like me, but still had to have about 4 blood tests done in her first 12 hrs to check her bilirubin levels due to my anti-bodies......at one point they were very close to putting her under lights (which would have meant she would have gone to neo-nates ) but it was decided to check her levels again in a few hours....luckily they dropped to an acceptable level!!

Congrats mumoftwins No wonder your antibodies remained really low. I'm so happy for you guys!!!

lostAmber, if I were you, I'd still request anti-d injection at 34 weeks. Good luck!