> ---------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 16:44:02 -0000 > From: "Joan M" <[email protected]> > To: "'Derbyshire genealogy'" <[email protected]> > Subject: [DBY] rhesus factor > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I've just found a couple 1911 censuses where there are a large number of > children born but only one or two survive. Could one reason be the problem > with the mother's blood type being rhesus negative where the first child > survives if rhesus positive but because antibodies have then built up any > subsequent rhesus positive children will have their blood cells destroyed? > Hope this makes sense!!! > > Joan > > I have a niece who is rhesus negative, so it's something I have thought of when you get that pattern of deaths. Also I knew a lady who died a few years ago and her son was born late forties, early fifties, (1950s) in Manchester. He survived, but the next 2 babies died. No one told them why and they decided to stop having children, because it was so distressing.Marie in Cheshire > >