Riding with o neg blood?

Question

is it safe to ride with o negative blood i got told i can only ride till 24 week im now 21 week please any one with same situation help ?

Answer 1

Make sure you get your Anti-D injections at 28 and 34 weeks and you should be fine. The Anti-D would just mop up any baby cells just in case there was a silent feto-maternal bleed (quite common) which I suppose would be more likely due to the riding (I don't know that for sure, it's just a guess). I imagine they say you should give up riding regardless of your blood group because it's quite hard exercise and involves a lot of bumping around on the horses back.

It'd only ever be a problem if you are rhesus negative and the baby is rhesus positive anyway (it can cause miscarriage and heamolytic disease of the newborn in later pregnancies) but have the injections just in case and all will be well :-)

Congratulations

Answer 2

I"m o neg and I have no idea why it would make a single difference how long you ride based on your blood type.  Now there may be other reasons you aren't supposed to ride very long that your doctor may not be telling you.  Make sure to ask him, or her.

I'm assuming here that you are pregnant?  Hence the 21 - 24 week thing?  Because I know my trainer really wasn't allowed to ride while she was pregnant, but then there was my cousin who rode until she started to feel unbalanced during her pregnancy.  

Double check with your doctor as to exactly why they don't want you to ride after 24 weeks.  Obviously you have to be on a safer horse while you are pregnant because with a youngster or a more rambuncious horse you are putting both your life and the life of the baby at risk.

Good luck.

Answer 3

I take it that you are O neg and you are pregnant with an rh positive fetus?  For that... follow your doctor's advice.  If you were not pregnant then it would not matter.  It would also not matter if your child is O neg as well as you.  It typically does not matter much the first pregnancy either.  It usually causes problems only during latter pregnancies.

Answer 4

The reason it is a safety issue is because you increase the chances of communication between your antibodies and the fetal blood if a bleed occurs.  The more time your immune system has to be building up a titer of antibodies against the fetal antigen, the more chance the baby will be born with erythroblastosis fetalis.

Answer 5

doc said 24 weeks?  either ask them.. stop riding at 24.. Or get a second oppinion.  My doc let me ride ( at a walk.. on my sane calm horse, english saddle)) until the 7th month.  Or as long as I could heave myself up on him. (thank god for steps, and truck tail gates or I'd never have made it that long.)   She did ultra sounds and a MRI at 26 weeks to make sure everything was fine.