RH negative - second pregnancy

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Hi, just curious if anyone else is RH negative with a RH postive child, this is my second pregnancy and I remember being told that if it was going to affect anything it would be 2nd pregnancy and so on…

im positive they told me I’d get red routed in this pregnancy but haven’t seen a midwife yet so just wondering if anyone else got put on high risk or if it’s just extra appointments/bloods etc?

Hi, my 1st born is rh+
I was given an injection post delivery to prevent from creating antibodies.
My 2nd, and 3rd pregnancy were losses, in the uk it's not routine they give the injection to prevent antibodies for any miscarriage, 4th pregnancy baby was rh negative, 5th was another mc but this time not in the uk, where I found its routine in europe to have the injection post mc, 6th pregnancy, I've had tests to confirm baby's blood type (rhs negative also)
No alternative care needed, except I believe they also don't test for baby's blood type in the uk, so you'll have the injection halfway through pregnancy as a precaution (I would have also needed this is baby was rh+)
They will test baby's blood post delivery too to see if you need it then also.
I'd just like to add, please please please push for care if anything (heaven forbid) happens and you mc, I'm 90% certain it's what's caused most of my mcs and I hate that the uk is so indifferent to rh - women and mcs
I imagine the only reason they would put you on a higher care would be if you experienced any difficulties in your 1st pregnancy.
I'm sure somebody will correct if I got any of that wrong, but this is just from my experiences 🙂

Wishing you all the best, and congrats on this pregnancy 😊

I got anti d injections first pregnancy, My second pregnancy was a miscarriage 11 weeks (got no injections , had a d&c, reason for miscarriage totally unrelated to rhesus d ), third pregnancy just had my dc with no issues. Had injections in the second trimester and after the birth. There generally shouldn’t be an issue at all once you have had the injections, there is no reason to be worried. I had extra injections in my first pregnancy due to spotting and had an extra following a fall in my 3rd pregnancy. Any trauma you may need extra injections.

Both mine were positive, in my second I had the routine anti d injection and another one after a bleed. Otherwise all fine, they test for antibodies I believe in the routine blood tests at booking in

Thanks for the replies, I’m so sorry to hear about your mc🩷 sending lots of love!, glad it’s not became red routed for anyone, just randomly popped into my head that my midwife last time had mentioned it could be a problem in second pregnancies but you’ve reassured me thank you x

I'm RH- and my daughter is RH+. I had an extra blood test during pregnancy (I think it was around the time of my 20 week scan) where they tested baby's blood type to determine if she was positive or negative, and once they'd established she was RH+ I was brought in for an anti D injection at ~28 weeks. As far as I know this is routine so your hospital should book you in for the extra blood test after doing all of your booking in bloods.

You won't be considered high risk just because of this, but you will need extra anti D injections if you have any "sensitising incidents" during pregnancy - so if you have any trauma to your bump, get yourself into maternity triage so they can give you anti D (I had a fall when I was 36 weeks and had to go in for extra anti D - not fun when I was away from home and couldn't go to my usual hospital!).

You'll also need an anti D injection after giving birth as well - so essentially it's just a few extra pokes and prods, but there are so many of those when you're pregnant that you probably won't notice...

relatively common and no biggie so long as you got anti d at the correct times in your last pregnancy. You won’t be high risk because of it and it will be the same precautions as previous preg, the anti D injections and go in if you are bleeding