I have O- blood, got a RhoGAM shot, and my baby is O-. Do I need another shot for my next pregnancy?

Описание: It sounds like you are O negative blood type and you were given RhoGAM during your first pregnancy. Every woman who has a negative blood type should receive RhoGAM around 28 weeks. What happens is they test your baby's blood after delivery, they don't have to poke your baby for this, they get a sample from the umbilical cord and test it. If the baby also has negative blood then you don't have to have another RhoGAM shot. You can thank your baby for that. If your baby has positive blood then you receive another one. If you have negative blood type and you're in a car accident or have any sort of bleeding episode during pregnancy, you're usually also given another RhoGAM shot at that time. The reason for this is because if your body is exposed to a baby with positive blood, like the positive blood cells meet up with your negative blood cells, your body will start to form antibodies against it and attack annoying that has positive blood from that time forward. For this reason you have to have RhoGAM during every single pregnancy. You have a question specifically about your second pregnancy because your first baby was negative, and you didn't get a shot after pregnancy, do you have to have another one in your second? The answer is yes because we can't confirm that baby's blood type until after delivery. At 28 weeks another rhogam shot will be given and then the same thing will happen. After the delivery of your baby they'll test your baby's blood, if it's positive give you another RhoGAM shot, and if it's negative then you don't need another one. The other part of this equation is dad. If a woman with negative blood type has a baby with a man that has a negative blood type then the babies will all have negative blood type. If your partner knows his blood type, he has confirmation that he is also negative then you can bring this proof to your doctor and your doctor may then at that point be okay without you getting your RhoGAM shot. Good luck with everything and if you have more questions for me the the future, feel free to ask them on our Facebook page at   / intermountainmoms   and recommend us to your friends and family too.