Rhesus Negative

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Hi lovelies! I’m a first time mum to be and other than being completely anxious of everything and thinking my bump is non existent for 22wks +2, I’ve now found out I’m rhesus negative! I’ve tried to read up on it and it shouldn’t be a huge issue for my first pregnancy but I’m worried nonetheless. I have an injection booked for a jab to protect me and the baby from antibodies? Anyone else in the same boat?

You'll have your jab around 28 weeks, after birth they will do blood tests. If baby is negative then you'll not need any further treatment, if positive they'll give you more anti-D. There's no need to worry too much with this pregnancy but future pregnancies could be high risk if you dodevelop antibodies.
I'm negative. Had 4 term pregnancies with 5 babies, had the anti-D at 28 weeks in all of them. All our kids are also Rh- so never needed another injection after birth.

Hi OP, I don’t have much to add to the above comment apart from my baby was Rh+ so I had another injection after birth. That’s been it, I’m now pregnant with a second and have to have another injection at 28 weeks. I’ve had no complications at all this pregnancy. Please don’t worry about the anti-d, it’s not a big deal at all. But it is important you have the injection. All the best 😊

When I was pregnant I was offered getting DP tested, if he had been - then we'd have only had - babies and all would have been fine. Apparently lots of areas don't offer this, in case it raises difficult questions! Unfortunately DP was +, so I had to have all the injections and we have 3 + children.
We're very lucky, the injections are a very minor pain and this used to be a disaster before they were available.

Anti - D jab after each one. And this was years ago. No issues at all. I wouldn’t worry about it.

Dh is rhesus negative too (which he knows from being a blood donor) so I declined anti d injections. They don't encourage this in case dh is not actually the father! But as I was 100% sure he was, midwife agreed no need for anti d.

These days this is very normal and fine because of the anti D jab which is brilliant. I had the jab in my first pregnancy. This time I haven’t needed it as they analysed baby’s blood type from traces of its DNA in my blood - amazing!!

I'm negative so had the injection. My baby is negative so I didn't need another one after the birth.
It really isn't anything to worry about. As long as you have the injection you should be fine, and I'm sure you will be.
I don't mind injections or blood being taken so that didn't bother me at all. I'll be completely honest, not to cause you more worry but so you know, it is a deep tissue injection. I had mine in my left arm because I'm right handed. My arm did ache for a few days after, similar to a pulled muscle pain, but manageable.
Good luck

@Chelyanne @Floopyandtired @DamnYouAutocucumber @Toastybutt @purplejungle @SecondHandChandelier @happymummy12345 Thank you so much for the responses! Nice to see that there’s been multiple positive experiences and nothing to stress too much about. I really appreciate the insight and run through

I'm also negative and had the jab, it was fine.
Annoyingly DH couldn't remember his blood type! (used to give blood years ago) so I had to have it to be on the safe side.

Rh -ve here and 3 pregnancies - all fine. I had a little fall with dc1 pregnancy and they found fetal cells in my blood, so had anti D then, aswell as the usual times.
Dc1 & 2 are Rh -ve too, so didn't need anti D after the birth. Dc3 is Rh +ve.

Negative here- you just get the anti D jabs when they tell you to. Also if you have a back knock to the bump (I had this when my toddler kicked my bump hard by accident whilst swimming) you need to go to the hospital to get another antiD in case there is any internal bleeding.
If your baby is negative when born all good. If positive then you get another anti d jab (lucky you!) I had one baby negative and then the next was positive

Bad knock that meant to say

Also rhesus neg and had the jabs. They were quite stingy but totally fine.

And the best thing if you are O neg is that you are a universal blood donor - as in your blood can go into anyone else.

They did a second blood test for me at my 16 week appointment to test the baby after I came up rhesus negative. In my case baby is also rhesus negative so nothing further is needed - although they might do another test at 28 weeks/after birth just to be sure

I had this It’s something and nothing you have an injection.

Although I did read about a study that found the thesis negative blood type is less likely to contract Covid so there is an upside!

I'm O- so rh negative too. My midwife is going to take bloods at 16w (currently 12w) to check for fetal blood type. They did this in my first pregnancy and the baby was also negative so I didn't need the antiD injection. Does your trust offer this service? They did check baby's bloods after birth too I think but I had a c-section and never had the antiD.

I had the jab with both my pregnancies as I’m A rh negative. No issues with it. Asked to have it in my bottom not sure if you can still choose?

Negative here- you just get the anti D jabs when they tell you to. Also if you have a back knock to the bump (I had this when my toddler kicked my bump hard by accident whilst swimming)

Exactly the same thing happened to me when swimming with my then toddler.