I had 4 boys all RH.  factor.  The last one born in 63.  When he was born they said he was having signs of problems.  The doctor said he would be fine and released us to go home.  He was very bad sick 7 weeks later with pneumonia and sickly for 5 years.  I believe to this day he should have a transfusion.  Just my openion.  So I gave up on having a girl. Thelma Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Marjorie Ward via DERBYSGEN <[email protected]> Date: 1/23/17 3:26 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Derbyshire genealogy <[email protected]> Cc: Marjorie Ward <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DBY] Rhesus factor I should have said this was in the 1960s so we were very lucky. Markorie Sent from my iPad > On 23 Jan 2017, at 22:22, Marjorie Ward via DERBYSGEN <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you for that explanation Alan. I am negative and my husband positive and I have been rather surprised that all our four children were positive. Fortunately for us we had no problems with the births. Like their Father they are also right handed unlike me.  :) > > Marjorie Ward > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 23 Jan 2017, at 18:32, Alan Bloor via DERBYSGEN <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Rh positive is a dominant gene so you only need one copy to be Rh positive. Your husband clearly has one positive gene and one negative, because you had a Rh negative child (which requires two Rh negative genes). A couple where the husband has two Rh positive genes and the wife is Rh negative will only have positive children. As for passing Rh negative type down the generations, it doesn't necessarily follow - both partners need to have at least one Rh negative gene to have a negative child. Hope that makes sense. >> >> Sent from my Windows Phone >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I am very sorry to hear about your son. It must have been very hard for all your family. And for you especially... tragedies for the same reason must have happened in previous generations in countless families, but they never knew why - and we can only wonder what the cause was, when we see deaths of children in the records. There were so many illnesses which could cause deaths of children - this one of many. Thank goodness for modern medicine. Margaret > On 24 Jan 2017, at 00:09, ladythel via DERBYSGEN <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I had 4 boys all RH. factor. The last one born in 63. When he was born they said he was having signs of problems. The doctor said he would be fine and released us to go home. He was very bad sick 7 weeks later with pneumonia and sickly for 5 years. I believe to this day he should have a transfusion. Just my openion. So I gave up on having a girl. > Thelma > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > -------- Original message --------From: Marjorie Ward via DERBYSGEN <[email protected]> Date: 1/23/17 3:26 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Derbyshire genealogy <[email protected]> Cc: Marjorie Ward <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DBY] Rhesus factor > I should have said this was in the 1960s so we were very lucky. > > Markorie > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 23 Jan 2017, at 22:22, Marjorie Ward via DERBYSGEN <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thank you for that explanation Alan. I am negative and my husband positive and I have been rather surprised that all our four children were positive. Fortunately for us we had no problems with the births. Like their Father they are also right handed unlike me. :) >> >> Marjorie Ward >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 23 Jan 2017, at 18:32, Alan Bloor via DERBYSGEN <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Rh positive is a dominant gene so you only need one copy to be Rh positive. Your husband clearly has one positive gene and one negative, because you had a Rh negative child (which requires two Rh negative genes). A couple where the husband has two Rh positive genes and the wife is Rh negative will only have positive children. As for passing Rh negative type down the generations, it doesn't necessarily follow - both partners need to have at least one Rh negative gene to have a negative child. Hope that makes sense. >>> >>> Sent from my Windows Phone >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message