Rh-positive
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A reaction there indicates you are Rh-positive; if nothing happens, you’re Rh-negative.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2020
If the mother has a second Rh-positive child, IgG antibodies against Rh-positive blood mounted during this secondary response cross the placenta and attack the fetal blood, causing anemia.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
An Rh-negative female can usually carry an Rh-positive fetus to term without difficulty.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
But if the baby is Rh-positive, there is a progressively increasing chance of trouble in later pregnancies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fluid withdrawn through the needle showed the extent to which the baby's Rh-positive cells were being destroyed by antibody from the Rh-negative mother.
From Time Magazine Archive
