What is the condition called blue baby and why would a baby new born blue need a blood transfusion.
2007-02-27 10:36:11 · 6 answers · asked by tammy51 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
If a woman is rhesus negative and her partner is rhesus positive, antibodies are formed during the pregnancy, the first baby is normally OK, but subsequent ones can need a blood transfusion. After giving birth, the mother can be given an anti-D injection, this stops the problem altogether. Blood tests are carried out during the pregnancy. I'm rhesus negative, if my partner had also been rhesus negative, I'd have been OK, but they give anti-D regardless, to be safe.
PS. To Mary, I can assure you that 'blue baby' is also used to describe a baby that is born needing a blood transfusion for the reasons that I mention too. Although your answer is also right. That does not make what I've stated wrong.
2007-02-27 10:49:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
hi my son has tetralogy of fallot pronounced (fallows) a heart condition where the heart has 5 things wrong with it mainly the main artery going to the heart,they called him a blue baby which being my 4th and not knowing of this ever i was pretty frightened,they picked this up at 4days old where he had a heart shunt then at 7mhs 2 by passes,he still is not what they called fixed and hes now 4 and will be looking to have surgery intill stops growing.there are many complications which unfortunalty he got leading now to a tube in the stomach to feed him (gastrostmy), 4 times a day and through the night with a pump this is better than having the tube in his nose (nasal gastric tube)which had all his life as the condition makes lack of oxygen aswell as many other things making them very tired unabling them not to suck the bottle.the blood transfusion thing im not sure about and i no few people with children with this condition.its good IF your baby has this and they got it early..hope goes well and wish you all the best it maybe sumthing else LETS HOPE..
2007-02-27 20:50:39 · answer #2 · answered by easty90210 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A blue baby is a baby born with a heart defect hence giving them a bluish tinge to their skin, my sister was a blue baby as she had a severe heart defect, some of these babies may need blood transfusions although I'm not sure they all do
2007-02-28 06:19:25 · answer #3 · answered by mumoffour 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tetralogy of Fallot.
It's a condition that robs the blood of oxygen, leaving the sufferer with a bluish tint. And the treatment for it is more of a bypass operation.
2007-02-27 11:46:20 · answer #4 · answered by pattypuff76 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
blue baby is when oxygenated blood in the heart crosses over in to deoxygenated blood in the heart...this would decrease oxygen in the babys blood and therefore cause them to go blue...it has nothing to do with being rhesus negative or positive or anti D injections
2007-02-27 22:14:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Baby blues are symptoms of hormone's after or before you are your baby basically i just cried for two days with no reason what's so ever it has nothing to do with your baby she/he will be very happy to pop out into your world it wouldn't surprise me if your partner might have the symptoms which can happen only some times tho this will pass within the first 2 weeks after. So i hope you enjoy your little treasure.......... GOOD LUCK
2007-02-27 11:17:27 · answer #6 · answered by silkyladyxxx 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋