I found out I am O+ as an adult, after I donated blood the first time. It's on the donor ID card I got in the mail after my first donation was processed. I also (much later) found out I'm CMV- from the Red Cross.
H found out he is AB+ the same way.
I'm pretty sure I've seen on medical forms that my two kids are A+ and B+ respectively, but I can't remember where/when, or actually which kid is which. Since it was both of them, it was probably from the hospital after their births.
We learned at birth. I thought that was standard. Guess not.
. Not standard to know this these days. . And I agree the index card method isn’t a great one. If your kid has medical needs that are critical for treatment you need a medical bracelet that paramedics/doctors will know to look for
I have a note in my phone that says DS is B negative. I'm pretty sure I got that off of hospital documentation when he was born. However, google tells me that's one of the rarest blood types (less than 2% of population) so now I'm second guessing that lol.
I forget mine, but I know it's on an old blood donor card from the Red Cross somewhere in my wallet.
It’s also written on index cards that are taped to the back of their car seats and in a pocket in their backpacks that also have their pediatrician’s info and emergency contact numbers. If they ever need blood, I don’t want any delay in them getting it.
Regardless of what is taped to their car seats or any other documentation you have, it will be standard of care to obtain a new type and screen in the event of an emergency. In the case that they need it sooner than a T&S would result, they would use emergency O- blood
Yes. DD had several blood transfusions in the NICU, and after that I guess it stuck in my head to also learn DS’s. DH’s and mine were on our paperwork when we lived in China. I doubt DH knows them.
Post by pizzaandtulips on Jul 25, 2023 14:12:17 GMT -5
Don’t know mine and don’t know my kids’. My mom and husband were appalled that I didn’t know mine because “what if you need blood in an emergency?” My response was always that there would be no situation in which a doctor or hospital would just take my word for it. They would test it first regardless.
Post by sproctopus on Jul 25, 2023 14:13:35 GMT -5
Just a genetics fact: The gene for Rh (the + and - on your blood type) is dominant. You get 1 copy from mom and one copy from dad, but Rh+ individuals can either be +/+ or +/- (the + is dominant, so that gives you the phenotype of a positive blood type). Two parents with positive blood types could both be heterozygous (so +/-). So, if they both donate the - copy of that gene during reproduction, they can have a child with a negative (-/-) blood type.
Another note is that I'm happy to know no one is going to go by whatever shit I have stuck to a car seat in my car to save anyone's life. By that measure, he'd need a goldfish, a hot wheel, and a dum dum stick, STAT. 🚑
I learned mine when I was pregnant with my first or maybe during fertility treatments. Apparently they run blood type on babies at our hospital because all three sets of hospital papers had my kids blood types listed (all 3 are A+ as is my husband). I’m O+.
I am O+ and my husband is O- so I think our children all have to be O something? But I believe my own mother was AB?
Our daughter needed surgery as a baby which required a blood transfusion so I'm sure hers is somewhere in her records.
I don’t believe your mother could be AB if you’re O.
How I understand it (and someone please correct me if I’m wrong) you get a “type” from each parent. O is recessive.
So you can be AA or AO and you’d be A. Same with B. But to be an AB you only have an A and B. To be O you need OO.An AB parent doesn’t have an O to give. And then there’s the RH factor.
Re the whole needing to know in an emergency thing - even if I know it, wouldn't they test it anyway to be sure, before giving me blood? I mean what if someone 'thought' they knew it and the hospital just went with that and gave someone the wrong type!
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I am O+ and my husband is O- so I think our children all have to be O something? But I believe my own mother was AB?
Our daughter needed surgery as a baby which required a blood transfusion so I'm sure hers is somewhere in her records.
I don’t believe your mother could be AB if you’re O.
How I understand it (and someone please correct me if I’m wrong) you get a “type” from each parent. O is recessive.
So you can be AA or AO and you’d be O. Same with B. But to be an AB you only have an A and B. To be O you need OO.An AB parent doesn’t have an O to give. And then there’s the RH factor.
Yes! O is homozygous recessive-- you need 2 copies to be type O.
Except 1 correction is that AA and AO would be type A, not O 😊
Re the whole needing to know in an emergency thing - even if I know it, wouldn't they test it anyway to be sure, before giving me blood? I mean what if someone 'thought' they knew it and the hospital just went with that and gave someone the wrong type!
Post by wanderingback on Jul 25, 2023 14:27:36 GMT -5
OP, I hope you didn’t give your husband a hard time for not knowing his blood type since you put it in bold. It’s super common not to know if you’ve never been pregnant or donated blood.
Nope. I mean maybe they told me when each kids was born or noted it in their medical chart, but I don’t remember. It’s all a blur. Also I only learned mine when I was pregnant.
OP, I hope you didn’t give your husband a hard time for not knowing his blood type since you put it in bold. It’s super common not to know if you’ve never been pregnant or donated blood.
No it was just because he was insistent that we should find out DD's and I was like, but you don't know yours so clearly it's not urgent information! I swore he's donated before so I thought he would know. I wasn't even sure how or why I know my own because I'm unable to donate (tiny veins).
OP, I hope you didn’t give your husband a hard time for not knowing his blood type since you put it in bold. It’s super common not to know if you’ve never been pregnant or donated blood.
No it was just because he was insistent that we should find out DD's and I was like, but you don't know yours so clearly it's not urgent information! I swore he's donated before so I thought he would know. I wasn't even sure how or why I know my own because I'm unable to donate (tiny veins).
No it was just because he was insistent that we should find out DD's and I was like, but you don't know yours so clearly it's not urgent information! I swore he's donated before so I thought he would know. I wasn't even sure how or why I know my own because I'm unable to donate (tiny veins).
Yeah, that sounds irritating. team you
I can ask next time she needs blood drawn, but I won't go out of my way to find out. He just seemed to think that it's standard in everyone's medical chart along with your height, weight etc and I was trying to tell him that's not the case, because I look at medical charts all the time and it's not there.
I know mine because of testing related to pregnancy. I know DH's (O-) because he was tested to be a donor when his brother had surgery and needed blood. I have no idea about DS; if he ever needs blood he'll be crossmatched.
I'm pretty sure my son is A-. They told us at the hospital when he was born. But I have no idea about my DD. I only know my own because I have a Red Cross card from donating blood. I'm sure my H does not know his own type.
I wouldn’t exactly call this response smug but if the kid needs a transfusion they’re not going to take the word of an index card in a backpack pocket!