What is your blood-type?

[Vulpix]

What is your blood-type?

I'm A+.

[Loki]

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know!

I've always wanted to know this, need to find out.

[Vulpix]

What are you waiting for ? It's not like they need a litre of your blood, just a prick on a finger will do !

[Beorn]

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know!

Same as. I have had so much blood taken from me as a child through some form or another that you would think it is noted in my medical records. But, when I pestered a Nurse to go through the mound of records, she could not locate the blood type.

I had this discussion with Æmeric some time back and was intrigued to once again discover my blood type.

My children are like their Mother in that they are all type O Rhesus negative.

[Æmeric]

O+. I know this because it was on my dogtags during my navy days.

[WinterMoon]

Same as. I have had so much blood taken from me as a child through some form or another that you would think it is noted in my medical records. But, when I pestered a Nurse to go through the mound of records, she could not locate the blood type.

I had this discussion with Æmeric some time back and was intrigued to once again discover my blood type.

My children are like their Mother in that they are all type O Rhesus negative.

If your children's mother is O negative, then is it possible that you are also negative? I am asking because if a pregnant woman is negative and the father is positive, then there can be problems in pregnancy:

Most people - about 85% - are Rh positive. But if a woman who is Rh negative and a man who is Rh positive conceive a baby, there is the potential for a baby to have a health problem. The baby growing inside the Rh-negative mother may have Rh-positive blood, inherited from the father. Approximately half of the children born to an Rh-negative mother and Rh-positive father will be Rh positive.

I am surprised that with her being negative they did not test your type as well for a potential incompatibility.

[Æmeric]

If your children's mother is O negative, then is it possible that you are also negative? I am asking because if a pregnant woman is negative and the father is positive, then there can be problems in pregnancy:



I am surprised that with her being negative they did not test your type as well for a potential incompatibility.

There are no complication in a first pregnancy of a women who is Rh- with a Rh+ fetus. But she will develope anti-Rhesus antibodies. In a subsequent pregnancy with a Rh+ fetus the antibodies will enter the bloodsteam of the fetus through the placenta causing Hemolytic Disease.

What is your partner's bloodtype? If both of you are O then your children will also be O. O is recessive to A & B:

O + O = O(OO)
A + O = A(AO)
A + A = A(AA)
A + B = AB(AB)
B + B = B(BB)
B + O = B(BO)

2 persons with type O(OO) will only have children with type O. Someone who is type A(AO) can have a child with type O if the other parent is O or A(AO) or B(BO). But persons with A(AA), B(BB) or AB(AB) cannot have a child with type O blood.

What we know about BoernWulfWer is that he is either O(OO), A(AO) or B(BO) since his children are both O. BeornWulfWer may be Rh+ but inherited the Rhesus gene from one parent only, allowing him to father Rh- children. Or he may be Rh- himself. You have the NHS in Britain, it shouldn't cost you anything to find out.

[WinterMoon]

There are no complication in a first pregnancy of a women who is Rh- with a Rh+ fetus. But she will develope anti-Rhesus antibodies. In a subsequent pregnancy with a Rh+ fetus the antibodies will enter the bloodsteam of the fetus through the placenta causing Hemolytic Disease.

You are correct about the first pregnancy.... but he has more than one child. Even if he is Rh positive, but has the gene inherited form only one parent, there is still the possibility of passing it along to an offspring. That is why I was surprised they did not type him when she was pregnant.

Just curious: On that side of the Atlantic, do doctors tend to be more reactive than proactive?

[SouthernBoy]

I'm AB-.

[Æmeric]

Just curious: On that side of the Atlantic, do doctors tend to be more reactive than proactive?

It depends on your health coverage. If you have good health insurance the doctors are proactive. Those without coverage or limited coverage usually don't see a doctor until something is wrong. Some medical practices do not like trying to collect from Medicaid & will not accept patients with that coverage. I'd say at least 1/2 the cost of heathcare in the US is related to administrative costs, e.g. documenting care to show it was necessary, filling out all the paperwork to receive payment for the insurance companies/various government agencies, not to mention insurance premiums for malpractice insurance. We have the best healthcare in the world for those who can afford it, unlike Canada which has univeral healthcare but it is rationed & you can die waiting for lifesaving procedures like heart bypasses. But they do have cheap proscription drugs in Canada.