[ozmidwifery] Info on Rhesus negative births

[Wayne and Caroline McCullough]

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A friend of mine had her baby by C-Section this week due to problems resulting from her being RH negative and her husband being RH positive. She was 37 weeks and the baby has been in NICU since late last night because of severe jaundice (my guess is that's from the operation). She has not been able to hold her baby or breastfeed yet and has had massive headaches, poor thing but I think she is expressing milk so that's a good sign. This is her second baby but I think she also had a C-Section with the first.   We did talk a lot about her birthing options before the baby was born but I am not educated enough on Rhesus factors to know whether or not her C-Section and the separation from her baby was indeed necessary. Does anyone know more about this? I am not going to go and tell her now that it was not necessary if that was the case but I would like to know for my own personal knowledge.   Am planning on calling her tomorrow to see how she is getting on (and how baby is getting on). She is at the Mater Mothers Hospital in Brisbane.   Cheers,   Cas McCullough