What is a Blue Baby? RH Factor involved in it..?

blue baby, infant born with a congenital heart defect that causes a bluish coloration of the skin as a result of cyanosis (deoxygenated blood). The color is most noticeable around the lips and at the tips of the fingers and toes. The cyanotic condition occurs when a large portion of the venous blood bypasses the lungs. Normally, deoxygenated blood from the veins is pumped from the right side of the heart to the lungs, where it is oxygenated (see circulatory system). In some blue babies, the pulmonary artery is too narrow to allow sufficient blood to pass into the lungs for oxygenation. Surgical correction of the defect is usually required and is usually successful. An incompatibility of fetal and maternal blood types may also cause a bluish coloration in newborn infants, a condition that results when red blood cells in the infant's blood are destroyed by antibodies in the mother's blood (see Rh factor). Sophisticated knowledge of blood types has made this condition increasingly rare.

I believe a blue baby is one that does not take it's first breath on its own and needs some stimulation to start breathing, generally a good rubdown with a towel will make baby start to cry and therefore breath (the old cartoons where Dr hangs baby upside down and smacks the bum is a joke but is based on the same theory) I don't know about RH factors making any kind of difference at birth just during pregnancy from what i have read.

A blue baby is when the mother's and father's blood don't match(one of them being some type of neg) and the baby has an Rh factor-which means while she was pregnant or at delivery the baby and the momma will get a shot of

Rhogham so the blood cells don't overtake each other. If this is done the baby has less of a chance to have to have a blood transfusion-that's a blue baby. All of mine were this way as I am B- and my husband was o+ not a match to produce children-but it happens.

I, myself am a "blue baby". My mother's blood type

(being O negative ) interferred with my father's blood type ( A positive). I have heard the term used with babies for different types of conditions and not just RH incompatibility. But i can relate to this problem.

Mine clashed with my mother's. As i said she is O negative, i am B positive. Mum ended up having medication till she gave birth to me to stop her blood cells from attacking mine.

The reason why RH incompatible babies are sometimes called "blue babies" is because the red blood cells in the infant's blood are destroyed by antibodies in the mother's blood, causing a "bluish" affect to appear on the skin. Once bub is out though, baby will go back to his or her normal colour.

There is nothing you really need to do to prepare except talk to doctor's and get all the available information from them. If you would like to know more specifically from the net type "RH FACTOR" into google search and it will show medical dictionaries on how it all works. Good luck :o)

i've never heard the term "blue baby" used unless it's a stillborn. RH is when the mohe ris Rh - and the baby the 2nd child it's affects not the 1st although you still need to get rogam or mini rogam injection with your 1st but it' doesn't really affect the 1st chid just the ones following...you get an injection about about 20 weeks sometihng like that I don't really remember when I got mine i think it was arounf 27 weeks or so..but then after the baby is born with in 24-48 hours following delivery, MC, or abortion you'd need another injection if your baby was RH + meaning your blood type doesn't match if your have a "-" baby then you don't need anything.

Blue Baby Syndrome

"Blue baby" is a term that I have heard older people use to refer to a baby who is stillborn. RH Factors may have something to do with it depending on the case -- but it is not something that would always be related.

RH factor is not related to "blue baby" at all. In the medical field, a "blue baby"" is a baby who has something wrong with his heart and is born bluish in color. These babies are typically rushed off to the pediatric heart section. Good luck with your grandchild.

I am a little knowledgeable on this. In 1956, my aunt gave birth to the first set of twin blue babies who were totally transfused. As far as I know, the boys never had problems with their heart or anything else for that matter. When I delivered my baby in 1976, I was immediately administered Rhogam to counteract my daughter's positive blood with my A negative blood. You need to check on the subject of hematology or, if there is ever a health fare, see if a hematologist is present who could answer your questions. Also, mention it to your physician, he/she be able to answer

To be honest, I don't think so