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Anti -D jab really necessary?

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negrilbaby · 11/02/2010 16:56

I'm Rh -ve as is mu husband. As far as I can find out that means there is no risk to any baby, and so I don't need the ante-D jab. When I said this to the mw she waffled on about something being passed down by other members of the family. What I think she really meant was that I could be lying about who the father was so they will give me the jab anyway. Am I right in my suspicions? I don't want to make a fuss but I can't see the point of having an injection for no valid reason.
Has anyone else been in this position?

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sheepgomeep · 12/02/2010 11:58

ahh I see.. I was starting to worry that my dad was not actually my biological dad after all!!.

I wonder why my mum had such a strange reaction over ds bloodgroup and mine for that matter. But then My mum was still married to her ex when I was concieved. I was the result of an affair!

Thank you both for working that out

pagwatch · 13/02/2010 19:08

Ummm

can I just respond to the 'accidents do happen' a while back.

No. They really don't.
Dh had vasectomy. Had lack of spermey beasts verified.

I was not having another baby.

Pingpong · 13/02/2010 20:31

How reliable is vasectomy? from the site I linked to

Vasectomy is very reliable - but not quite 100%. (Compare this to when no contraception is used. More than 80 in 100 sexually active women who do not use contraception become pregnant within one year.) About 1 in 1000 operations are not successful, and semen tests show sperm still present after the operation. Even after a successful operation about 1 in 2000 men who have had a vasectomy will become fertile again at some point in the future. This is because, rarely, the two ends of the cut vas deferens re-unite in time.

I've also had friends who have required assisted conception for 2 children - told they will never conceive naturally and then bingo another baby and another friend who had a coil who still fell pregnant and I was on the pill when I first fell pregnant which was sadly ectopic so from my viewpoint accidents do happen but everyone is entitled to their own view.

I still think making the decision to decline anti D when your DH/DP is also rh neg is very different from making that decision when you think your family is complete.

weasle · 13/02/2010 21:47

back to original OP, I am pg with dc3 and both dh and I are rhesus negative. I have never had anti-D and it's not been pushed until suddenly this time when i have been sent an appointment for the anti-D clinic and have had trouble refusing.

I also think the reason for HCP being cautious is the potential uncertainty about the father of the baby when they look at the whole populations. I said to my MW, look, my husband isn't here, I'm not lying, he is definitely the father, i'm not having it.

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