do you know anything about when a woman´s body makes antibodies against her unborn baby?
i have read about this recently and it seems that when she has been exposed to the sperm of the baby´s father the pregnancy has a healtier chance and that there is a chemical in the sperm that causes her body not to make antibodies against the child. do you know any more about this topic?

Hassia - I know about the antibodies, but I have not heard of exposure to sperm having anything to do with it.

A woman who has Rh Negative blood can develop antibodies to an Rh Positive baby. There is an injection which can help prevent that:

http://www.babycenter.com/rhogam/

http://www.babyworld.co.uk/information/pregnancy/complications/
complications_rhesus_factor_problems.asp

The only sites that I could find about sperm and antibodies were about antibodies to the sperm itself:

http://www.ivillagehealth.com/experts/
fertility/qas/0,11816,166257_901,00.html

[This message was edited by Sherasi on 02-26-03 at 01:53 PM.]