rh Negative Blood types?

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My mum has Rh negative blood which is where all my complications began. Her antibodies tried to destroy my red blood cells. This was in '85 so there was no vaccine. I had a blood transfusion while still in the womb so I have no idea what blood type I am.

Didn't they give women shots then for their blood type? I had to be given one recently due to my blood type so my body won't attack my baby and then I have to get another one after I give birth.

I have A-. Interestingly, both my parents are positive.

Not in Australia. She was living in Sydney too so had access to medical treatment. I'm not really sure if the shot was around then but she never got anything for it. Actually, she's anti-vaccine so maybe she rejected the shot. I didn't get my MMR until I was five because the school would only let me in if I had it.

A+

Totally boring, a lot of us have this group in family and I think it's quite common in the world or at least in France.

My mother is a B- though (therefore both my brother and I are AO)

B-

I'm O- thank you very much!

I don't think I can donate blood though, I pass out too easily.

I'm O-.

I had to get shots during my pregnancies and right after the births.

I'm O negative and have Asperger, diagnosed at age 9. I'm mtDNA haplogroup T and Y chromosome haplogroup R1b. IQ testing at 141. If that means anything to anyone researching the topic I am happy to help you. My father also has Asperger as well as my nephew who is my brothers son was recently diagnosed at age 7. My brother does not have Aspergers, but his IQ is 155 and he is type O negative also. I have a very hard time in college and consider myself to be a 'slow learner' even though my IQ score is apparently above average. I am dyslexic and have a hard time absorbing new concepts. I still don't know many basic things of academia yet know a lot about many trivial and apparently useless things.

i'm A -
is the negative rhesus really so rare? there seems to be a whole lot of it on here...
i don't know my parent's blood types.

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i know my mother got them back then as well, in 80, 81 and 83. my brother got sick anyways as her body still decided to attack him.
i am a negative rh and so are my first two children and i'm not sure about the youngest as they never told me and i didn't think of it.

A-, I think. Can't donate blood.

Will someone please explain to me what the Rh factor has to do with Rhesus monkeys? The internet is failing me right now.

The scientists first discovered this protein tag on blood cells in Rhesus monkeys, the standard lab animal at the time. They then found that most, but not all, humans also have the protein. Rhesus + versus - differentiates those with & without this factor. It was thought the factor was a mutation from the original '-' state & as it is a dominant gene it is slowly replacing the negs. (But we've not died out yet, speaking as an O neg myself. The blood donor service is like my own personal vampire stalker, always writing to me or phoning up vanting my blod darlink ! )

Until that point the only blood types were thought to be A, B, AB, O (A & B being two diff proteins & O being the absence of either). Since then haematology research has gone on to find hundreds of subtypes, but for most of the Western world the ABO-Rhesus system suffices. Often need more careful matching for transplantation patients & outside of the Euro/East Asian ethnicity groups etc. If these are minority groups they often are the hardest to get donors, so can make life even tougher for patients. Same for Europeans who live in East Asia - there it can be very hard to source Rh neg blood for foreign patients.

Feh, that was going to be a short post.

Hmm I will have to ask my mum. This is going to be awkward.
Still how was she to know? Just because my extremely pre mature sister turned blue and had rickets shortly after being born a year before I was born. She also had Rh disease and had to be removed via c-section. She's the most NT person out there, though she has some ASD traits. But she's oversociable. When she says I'm obsessed with autism I say she's obsessed with her friends and fashion.

A+ here. My mom is AB and my dad is A+.