WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for November, 1999: Re: ABO incompatability-for Christine Smith

Re: ABO incompatability-for Christine Smith

From: JHC (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 04 Nov 1999 09:50:15 -0600

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Christine,

Thank you for your response. I am sure that they did type the donor. I was given a list of anonymous donors to choose from, and her blood type was not listed. Prior to the embryo transfer, I asked if blood type was going to be a problem and the doc said that it shouldn't be because I was Rh +.

The reason it concerned me, was that my son became jaundiced within the first 12 hours of life, and even with phototherapy his bili hung around 14 for a month. The Pediatrician was not overy concerned, but we were in the office every other day for bili levels and occasionally for retic counts to see if he was hemolyzing.

I as earlier stated, I am probably worrying about things unecessarily. I guess I shouldn't worry about things that have not happened yet. Once again, thank you for your response.

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JHC

>
>At Thu, 28 Oct 1999, JHC wrote:
>>
>>As I am typing this message, I wonder if I should be asking this of a
>>Pediatric forum....  but here goes anyway.  I am going to undergo IVF
>>next month, and will be using donor eggs (again).  My husband is blood
>>type A-, the donor of the eggs is either A- or O-, and I am O+.  The
>>last time I did this, using the same donor (was not documented at the
>>time of egg retrieval), my son was born with an ABO incompatability
>>(positive Coombs).  It did not present a big problem, other than having
>>to be under phototherapy for about a week.  I know that ABO
>>incompatability is not as serious as a missed Rh incompatability, but is
>>this something I should worry about? I am sure over the next few weeks I
>>will find a multitude of things to worry about.
>>
>>Regards,
>>JHC
>
>Hi JHC:
>If the donor is type A then your chances of having an A baby is quite
>high, but I don't think that *necessarily* means ABO incompatibility.  If
>the donor is type O then your chances of an A baby may be a little
>lower.  I'm kind of curious, don't they type the donor?
>
>Chris S.

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