PLS KNOW YOUR BLOOD GROUP
Or you may have a dead baby.

Blood groups are:
O+, O-, A+, A-, B+, B-, AB+, AB-

If a lady with blood group - sign is pregnant for a man with + sign,

That baby can have:
•low blood levels
•brain damage
•heart failure
•liver damage
•death

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Ladies come close pls.
Check your blood group today and know what it is. I will explain why.

If your blood group is A-, B-, O- or AB- and you get pregnant for a man who is A+, B+, O+ or AB+,

Your body will see that baby as a foreign body/invader, it will try to attack the baby.
Once your blood and baby’s blood mixes- which can happen during pregnancy, Labour, delivery, miscarriage or during an abortion- your body will produce its soldiers (called antibodies) to try an attack that baby of a man with blood group + factor.

This means you are “sensitised”.
Now when your antibodies attack the baby, it destroys the baby’s red blood cells- this causes accumulation of bilirubin in the baby:

Low blood level
Jaundice
Liver damage
Heart failure
Brain damage
Generalised swelling
And baby dies.

Doctors call this Erythroblastosis Fetalis.
Usually the first pregnancy may be safe because that’s when your body is just getting exposed (sensitised). But any further pregnancies will not be.

Now if that first pregnancy was an abortion/miscarriage when you were younger for someone you don’t know the blood group, then it
It means you are ALREADY sensitised. The implication of that is when you marry as a sensitised woman with a blood group that has - sign and get pregnant for a man with + sign, ALL your babies could be born dead or die within few days of birth.

This is how family problems start.
This is one explanation for “abiku” in yorubaland where a woman’s children keep dying and people wonder why.

This is also one explanation for women/wives who have been unfairly called “witches” that “eat their own children” when actually na blood group incompatibility cause am.
But there’s GOOD NEWS!

What is it?
1. Know your blood group
2. Know your partner’s blood group
3. Let your doctor be aware ASAP especially if you plan/are pregnant.
4. The doctor can give you an injection called “Rhogam”. This prevents your body attacking and killing your baby.
I hope you have learnt something this morning. Now feel free to share this with your friends, families and loved ones.

And don’t forget this knowledge,
It could save your own baby or someone else’s baby just by you telling them what to do.

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