Rh-positive
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A reaction there indicates you are Rh-positive; if nothing happens, you’re Rh-negative.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2020
If the mother has a second Rh-positive child, IgG antibodies against Rh-positive blood mounted during this secondary response cross the placenta and attack the fetal blood, causing anemia.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
However, if she has a second Rh-positive fetus, her body may launch an immune attack that causes hemolytic disease of the newborn.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
Fluid withdrawn through the needle showed the extent to which the baby's Rh-positive cells were being destroyed by antibody from the Rh-negative mother.
From Time Magazine Archive
In such cases, the Rh-negative mother develops an immunity to future Rh-positive babies and may send enough damaging antibodies into the developing child's bloodstream to cause stillbirth, brain damage or a miscarriage.
From Time Magazine Archive
