Re: [ozmidwifery] Info on Rhesus negative births

[jireland]

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If the baby was jaundice at birth then this is a case where medical intervention and maternal separation is warranted. This may be  a result of isoimmunization where the mothers antibodies which she produced in her last pregnancy [1.5% chance with good antenatal and postnatal surveillance ] have attacked the babies red blood cells and the baby needed to be born for medical care before it became very anaemic and extremely unwell.  There is no reason she can't touch and hold her baby she may like to have a member of her family with he baby 24 /7 play known sounds or music to babe have an some articles to sleep with ie hat that alternates between her and babe share each other smells,put a sign on cot this is 'Mary daughter of blah blah and sister of etc- no teats or dummies please I am b/f and the staff can be left with instructions to call p-parents re any testing etc so they can be there with their baby ie the family part the mum should feel she is in charge of things the mother bed should have many photos of baby with her with her sister and her relatives all reminders that this is her newborn Finally as babe improves the care should transfer to beside mums bed .Hope he latter is very soon Jan   ----- Original Message ----- From: Wayne and Caroline McCullough To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 11:09 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] Info on Rhesus negative births 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