When you’re pregnant, you may learn that your baby isn’t your type — blood type, that is. Every person is born with a blood type — O, A, B, or AB. And they’re also born with a Rhesus (Rh) factor, ...

Rh typing is one among the 30 different blood grouping system currently in use. In this grouping human beings are differentiated as Rh positive and Rh negative based on the presence or absence of an ...

The Rh factor is a type of protein that's usually found on red blood cells. When you have this protein, you’re considered Rh positive. About 85% of people are Rh-positive. The rest are Rh-negative.

One out of every eight marriages in the U.S. is a potentially dangerous mismatch, biochemically speaking. In these 200,000 or more marriages a year, the wife lacks the Rh factor present in most blood ...

When you are newly pregnant, various blood tests are done at your first visit. The initial test is to confirm pregnancy and then your haemoglobin levels (Hb) to check that you are not anaemic. Your ...

When a woman and her unborn baby carry different Rhesus (Rh) protein factors, their condition is called Rh incompatibility. It occurs when a woman is Rh-negative and her baby is Rh-positive. The Rh ...

It's always a good idea for any couple to think ahead and prepare for pregnancy, so Mom and baby can be as healthy as possible. When facing the potential for Rh disease, as you two are, it's even more ...

The rhesus factor, or Rh factor, is a protein that may be present on the surface of red blood cells (RBCs). If RBCs contain the Rh antigen, they are Rh-positive, and if not, they are Rh-negative. It ...