Is it true you cant have children if you have a different blood type?

Question

okay, i heard you cant have children with a person who does'nt have the same blood type as you? is this true?

Answer 1

People of any blood type can breed. There are three different types of genes which give you your blood type, and everyone has two copies of these; A, B and i. If you are A, you either have the gene combination of AA or Ai. If you are B, you have either BB or Bi. If you are AB, you have AB. If you are O, you have ii. I'm a little worried about Romili who said she is O while her mother is O and her father AB. For Romili to be O, she must have the genes ii. Her mother must also be ii to be O. Each parent gives one of their genes to their children. So her mother would have given her an i, but her father is AB and can only give her an A or a B (random). So it is impossible for Romili is be O if her father is AB. I hope that Romili is mistaken about either her blood type or her fathers... or he may not be her father!

Anyway, people of different blood types are completely compatible because they just randomly give one of their genes to their children which them gives then their blood type, which may be the same or different from the parental bloodtypes. For example:

(i) Father is AA, mother is Ai ----> child will have either AA or Ai (and A bloodtype)

(ii) Father is AA, mother is BB ----> child will have AB (with AB bloodtype)

(iii) Father is AB, mother is Ai ----> child will have AA, Ai, AB or Bi (which overall, respectively, is A, A, AB or B)

There is something called the Rhesus (Rh) gene, which is prehaps where you came up with this question. There are two types of Rh genes, Rh+ or Rh-. Once again everyone has two of these genes and you will be Rh+ if you have the combinations of Rh+Rh+ or Rh+Rh-, and you will be Rh- if you have Rh-Rh-. The problem is women who are Rh-. What happens is that when they become pregnant with a man who is Rh+ (Rh+ is the most common so her partner is most likely Rh+), the baby will also be Rh+ (because the father gives the baby a Rh+ gene which will make it Rh+ overall). When this happens, it's not a problem because the mother and the babies blood doesn't mix. However, at childbirth, the bloods will mix and the Rh- mother will be exposed to Rh+ blood. Because the baby leaves the women's body immediately at this time, the baby isn't in any danger. However, since the mother has now been exposed to Rh+ blood, she will begin to make antibodies to destroy any future encouters with Rh+ blood. Here's where the problem lies, for the second and any subsequent pregnancy, the mother will send her antibodies across the placenta and lyse ("kill") the baby blood cells. In such a case, death of the baby occurs. So this problem causes couples to get blood tests during the first pregnancy, or preferably before hand. This problem is avoiding by giving the mother a shot before or during her pregnancy. The shot is a specific "dose" of Rh+ blood. Now you may think this is stupid because she will react with it, make antibodies and kill her baby that she is pregnant with. But no, it's a different type of Rh+ blood which causes the mother to make antibodies against the Rh+, which are too large to cross the placenta. Therefore, she can safely have as many children as possible because her antibodies are too large to get to the baby during pregnancy and will only do so at childbirth, where it is too late to do any damage. Thus, a happy ending for all.

However for those women who go undetected for being Rh-, which is very rare these days and can only logical happen if a mother refuses the bloodtest, and mixes blood with the first baby and makes the small (and therefore harmful) antibodies, she can become "infertile" and never have any children again. I am unaware of any cases of this or any treatments for women choosing to have another child. One so-called treatment or at least a way in which a woman in this situation can have another child, is to "dispose" of her Rh+ partner and find one who is Rh-. Can you imagine a woman wandering around a party asking for every man's bloodtype or for him to get a blood test... crazy!!!

Answer 2

NO. The only problem that may come up has to do with whether your blood is negative or positive. The letter (O, A, B, AB) doesn't matter. If the mother is negative and the father is positive then the mother's body may think the baby is "foreign" and may reject it. However there are injections that can be given to the mother to stop this happening (and it doesn't happen all the time anyway). This is why the doctor will do a routine blood test when you first find out you are pregnant; if your blood type is negative they will automatically give you two of these injections throughout the pregnancy (usually at weeks 28 and 36; or if you get any bleeding).

Answer 3

No it is not true. You can have a perfectly normal child and normal delivery even when the blood types are very different. However it is a concern for the doctors to know. They will treat it before delivery and everything will be fine. The only downside is that the child may be a little jaundiced for a few hours or a day after delivery. But they treat that by putting the kid under some special light bulbs.

Yes Romili, it is because of the difference. Just as you will develop antibodies to a flu after a vacine, a mother will develop antigens by being exposed to the baby's blood.

Answer 4

As people have said, your information is confused. The issue you are probably thinking about is Rh factor. Some people's blood cells have a protein stuck to the outside; some people's don't. Those people whose blood has the protein are called "positive," as in O+ blood. Those who don't have the protein are "negative." If the two types of blood mix, the negative blood will attack the positive blood as a disease (but not the other way around, which is why people with O negative blood can donate to anyone).

If the baby's father has positive blood and the mother has negative, the baby will have positive blood. This is usually not an issue during a pregnancy, as mom and baby's blood don't mingle. But if there's any bleeding during pregnancy then mom's body will build up antibodies that will wait to attack the baby's blood. Often blood mingles during childbirth itself, causing the antibody formation. Generally the first baby is safe, but if a mother gets pregnant with a second positive baby, it's possible that her body will attack the baby, causing serious problems or even miscarriage.

Back in the olden days this was more common. These days, they give negative moms a shot to stop antibody formation (Rhogam is its name) halfway through pregnancy, just in case. Then after the baby is born, if he or she does, in fact, have positive blood, they give mom the same shot again, to protect a future pregnancy. This happens for every pregnancy a negative mom has.

Answer 5

in terms of the main well-known blood typing, A+, A-, B+, B-, AB+, AB-, O+ and O-, you're able to have toddlers in case your blood kinds are distinctive. There are some combos with which the infant's blood form could be attacked via the mummy's immune equipment if there is an harm to the placenta which motives the blood of one to come again in touch with the different. from time to time of such incompatibility, the infant will require an entire blood transfusion ideal after it somewhat is born. the percentages in those pregnancies, particularly contained on the subject of first pregnancies, are that the infant would be only high-quality.

Answer 6

The only thing that comes remotely possible with blood and mothers, is the Rh factor. If the mother is Rh- and the fetus has Rh+ blood (the condition is a really long name), then problems can arise with the antigens. However, doctors can treat that, so yea...

Other than that, blood type does not play any role in child-producing.

Answer 7

No. You must be thinking of the Rh factor. You can definitely get pregnant by someone with a different blood type.

Answer 8

No, not at all. Unless they're a different species. Whoever told you that is super dumb, and you're not looking too smart for believing it. The only issue that could happen would be Rh incompatability with the fetus (after the first one), but that can be taken care of with a shot.

Answer 9

No that is totally FALSE. My ex-husband has type O Blood and I have type B- and we had 2 healthy beautiful children.

Answer 10

No this is not true, as I have AB- blood and my husband has O+ blood. I did have to have two rhogam shots, one during and one after each of my children, but they, and I are fine.