rh incompatibility

[mpp]

Hello! I hope you can answer my question. Is there a possibility for a baby with rh incompatibility or Rh-induced hemolytic disease of the newborn to survive without being treated and live without having the effects that the disease brings? Thank you.

[Leah71187]

no it wont survive without treatment. i could have a great aunt right now but because she was born before doctors knew very much about the rh factor, she died 3 days after she was born. my mother almost died from the rh factor but because my great grandmother noticed the signs from when her baby died, she threw a fit and made the doctors check in on it, causing them to treat my mother for it, and she lived obviously :o) bottom line, always always always treat for the rh factor.

[Majikat]

The mother is supposed to get shots during the pregnancy to prevent that.... Why risk it? But most babies survive and do well now a days. It causes anemia baby could end up needing a blood transfusion in worst case scenario.
I am rh- and I have just gotten the rohgan shots every pregnancy and both my children had a little  jaundice.

[jschoch8]

It is very important for the newborns to be treated after birth, especially if there was no intervention during pregnancy.