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I was just wondering if you knew your kids' blood types?
I don't know any of mine (though they have all had the heel ***** test and another blood test for thryoid done at 5 days). No other blood tests though. DD was in the NICU for 8 hours following birth, so I guess they might have done something there but I wasn't told.
When and why did you find out your kids blood types?
They wrote my kids blood type in the little state government book they give you when baby is born. I think it was from heel ***** test.
Mum knew all ours cause she had rhesus
DH and I both O+ so both our kids will be either O+ or O-
the heel ***** test aka newborn screen won't give you a blood type.
the only time it is routinly done is if mum is a negative blood group so they can check if bub is positive or not.
I have no idea what any of mine are.
I know what DD1's is but not the other two. Found out hers because she had significant gut issue after birth and it was part of the testing that was done.
I don't know what our two are, they have never had a blood test.
I wouldn't have a clue what my boys are and I can't remember my own, maybe A+, I know I'm not a negative!
Mine will all be A+ because DH and I share a blood type :) Nice and easy to remember :lol:
I never knew mine until I started donating blood, so I assume my parents didn't know either.
Tenibear with you A+ and hubby A+ your kids can be A+ A- O+ O-
I didn't think they could be negative if both parents are positive? :think: I'd actually forgotten to factor in O :redface: so I've been thinking wrong for quite a while - whoops!:
Pos can be ++ or +-
Ah, of course. Ignore me then, I've no idea what blood type my kids are/will be :lol: I assume A+ but I could be wrong ;)
Lol silly genetics
I was thinking about this the other day. All those bloods DD had, I should have asked to get it checked! My kids could be (almost) any blood group. DH is B+ (he thinks) and I'm AB+
Both mine are O-, same as me. Found out because of the rhesus negative business.
Just make sure you tell your kids the correct blood type if they ask-my mother has always told me I was A+ so I have spent years quoting my blood type as A+. When I got my bloods done at the start of this pg they tested for blood type and I found out that I am actually O+ not A! :lol:
^^ this!! My mum always told me I was a+ but I'm actually o-! Silly woman!:
Yep! That's me too :lol::
Oh it must have been cause I am A- then not cause of heel ***** test as I had assumed.
No idea!!
I'm A+ and DH is B+ so the world is their phlebological oyster.
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Lol, my mum assumed I would be A+ as my mum and dad are both A+.... but I am A- We too were surprised... The -/+ gene is separate to the A/B/O gene...
All that being said, I have a friend who found out in their 20s that their dad wasn't their dad, because they donated blood and that was the first time they found out what their blood type was ... the parents had no idea (though surely the mother had wondered from time to time ... ?)
Let's not do that!
=( I have had a very awkward conversation with a young dad re that exact thing... he was 100% he was neg. the mum was neg and her baby was pos. was a horrible conversation, he pulled me aside privately to ask about it because he realised it wasn't possible. I just said I really think he needs to talk to his gf.
Yup.
I was with my friend when it happened ... they're B+, parents are A+ and O-.
Oh dear.... That would be awful all around..!:
My son was tested because of rhesus risk. He's B- and I am O-. Thought he was in the clear but he actually got jaundice from the ABO mismatch. (It's not inevitable, but some O mothers are capable of producing antibodies that attack A or B blood in the baby, it just is milder than the rhesus issue.)
My husband is AB+ so our children will be A or B, + or -. Lots of options.
I'm O- . I have 1 A+ child and 1 O+ child. 3rd child they refused to test so I don't know.
I am B- and my Ob was explaining the needles I had to have in case bub was positive. I asked if DH could be tested and we could figure it out from there. He said he didn't do that and hadn't for years as he had a patient and Husband who they tested and then the bub was a blood group which wasn't possible from their blood types so he doesn't do it any more.
My DD is B- like me and DS is B+, we don't know what DH is as he hasn't been tested.
My mum is A- my dad O+ I'm O+ my mother wasn't given rhesus needles so my younger sister was stillborn at term so from that I'm guessing my brother born after her is a negative blood type
My mum is O- and my Dad is A+ and coincidentally I am O- and DH is A+
DD is A-
When I was born my grandfather, who was a GP, said that Mum didn't need to have AntiD because although he didn't know what blood group Dad was he knew that he and Granny were both negative.....lucky I was neg anyway...Dad believes the "genetic throwback" theory