I am a O positive and my fiance is A negative; will we be able to have healthy children?

Answer 1

Based only on blood types, absolutely.

It is only when the MOTHER is negative that her body creates antibodies against the positive Rh factor of the baby.

If the baby is negative, it will have no Rh factor, and the positive mother will not have anything to attack.

Even when Mom is negative and baby positive, there are ways to protect baby from mom's antibodies, as long as she hasn't had several positive pregnancies without certain treatments.

The only thing you need to remember is that if you have Rh negative daughters, you must teach them about this from an early age. They must have the shot (those others spelled it. ) after any miscarriage, abortion or birth.

Answer 2

An O positive mother with a child who is positive or negative has no problems; an A negative mother with an Rh positive child could have some but with today's medicine probably won't. The child's blood cells normally won't get into the mother's bloodstream, but if they did, she'd make antibodies to them that would pass through to the baby and attach his/her blood cells. The typical scenario is that no baby blood cells get across to the mother until birth. The doctor can give the Rh negative mom who has had an Rh positive child a shot of RhoGam which is gamma globulin (antibody) against the Rh positive factor. This will cause the baby's Rh positive cells to be mopped up before they can provoke the mom's antibody system to produce these antibodies. That way, she'll still be a good 'incubator' for another Rh positive child later on. If she isn't given RhoGam after birth, her antibodies could potentially harm subsequent Rh positive babies but not Rh negative babies.

Answer 3

Yep you will be able to have a healthy baby as blood type does not effect fetal growth. You only have to worry if the mother is Rh negative and then during the last bit of her pregnancy she is given a drug to protect both her and baby in case their blood happens to mix during labor and birth.

Answer 4

Yes you have an opportunity to have healthy children. The child's blood type with RH factor can be determined during pregnancy and under proper medical supervision be assisted even in areas of differing blood types. In most cases this is not even required due to the relationship of mother with child biologically.

wiki gives an example of where there can be difficulties.
RhD Hemolytic disease of the newborn is often called Rhesus disease or Rh disease for brevity. Sensitization to Rh D antigens (usually by feto-maternal transfusion during pregnancy) may lead to the production IgG anti-RhD antibodies which can pass through the placenta. This is of particular importance to RhD negative females of or below childbearing age, because any subsequent pregnancy may be affected by the Rhesus D hemolytic disease of the newborn if the baby is Rh D positive. The vast majority of Rh disease is preventable in modern antenatal care by injections of IgG anti-D antibodies (Rho(D) Immune Globulin). The incidence of Rhesus disease is mathematically related to the frequency of RhD negative individuals in a population, so Rhesus disease rare in the Chinese, Japanese and Africans, but more common in Caucasians.

Rhc antigens can occasionally cause a severe hemolytic disease of the newborn (anti-Rhc).

Answer 5

Absolutely, the difference in your blood types does not pose any difficulty. People have referred to the problems associated with Rh factor, but since you are Rh positive you will not have this problem with any of your pregnancies, it occurs when women who are Rh negative have an Rh positive fetus.

Answer 6

Yes, but if the baby has positive blood, the mother may require Rhogam injections. Not a terrible thing, but important.

Answer 7

Thats a good question. My parents were types O & A. They had 4 children. It worked out for them. Good luck on your family!

Answer 8

Although, you and your fiance have non compatabe blood types it will not affect the health of your children.

Answer 9

Yes. The blood type will just give the genetic code for what your children's blood type will be. There's nothing dangerous about that.

Answer 10

What I want to know is, why would you trust something so important to random people answering on here? Better ask a doctor about this one...