Linda was two months shy of being two years old when she died. She was diagnosed as having hemolytic disease of the newborn, or erythroblastosis fetalis.
She was a sickly child, often hospitalized, and on a strict diet. Her medical condition arose from Jim having a blood type of RhD-positive, Marie being RhD-negative, in combination with Linda being the 4th child with RhD-positive blood. Medically speaking, if the mother is RhD-negative and carrying a RhD-positive baby, there is a risk of their blood mixing (this can happen during pregnancy or birth) resulting in the mother's immune system producing antibodies against the baby's blood, which is likely to cause anemia and other problems in the baby and especially in future pregnancies. The risk grows exponentially with succeeding pregnancies. Medicine presently has a vaccine for the mother to prevent her body from producing these harmful antibodies making it safe for all pregnancies.
I had no pictures of Linda and thought they were lost to time. To my excitement, Brenda (Bartels) Parm, daughter of Shirley Ann (Allen) Bartels sent me pictures.
The oval indentation on her headstone once contained a ceramic image of her. It is long gone. All that is left is our memories of her
She was a sickly child, often hospitalized, and on a strict diet. Her medical condition arose from Jim having a blood type of RhD-positive, Marie being RhD-negative, in combination with Linda being the 4th child with RhD-positive blood. Medically speaking, if the mother is RhD-negative and carrying a RhD-positive baby, there is a risk of their blood mixing (this can happen during pregnancy or birth) resulting in the mother's immune system producing antibodies against the baby's blood, which is likely to cause anemia and other problems in the baby and especially in future pregnancies. The risk grows exponentially with succeeding pregnancies. Medicine presently has a vaccine for the mother to prevent her body from producing these harmful antibodies making it safe for all pregnancies.
I had no pictures of Linda and thought they were lost to time. To my excitement, Brenda (Bartels) Parm, daughter of Shirley Ann (Allen) Bartels sent me pictures.
The oval indentation on her headstone once contained a ceramic image of her. It is long gone. All that is left is our memories of her
Linda was two months shy of being two years old when she died. She was diagnosed as having hemolytic disease of the newborn, or erythroblastosis fetalis.
She was a sickly child, often hospitalized, and on a strict diet. Her medical condition arose from Jim having a blood type of RhD-positive, Marie being RhD-negative, in combination with Linda being the 4th child with RhD-positive blood. Medically speaking, if the mother is RhD-negative and carrying a RhD-positive baby, there is a risk of their blood mixing (this can happen during pregnancy or birth) resulting in the mother's immune system producing antibodies against the baby's blood, which is likely to cause anemia and other problems in the baby and especially in future pregnancies. The risk grows exponentially with succeeding pregnancies. Medicine presently has a vaccine for the mother to prevent her body from producing these harmful antibodies making it safe for all pregnancies.
I had no pictures of Linda and thought they were lost to time. To my excitement, Brenda (Bartels) Parm, daughter of Shirley Ann (Allen) Bartels sent me pictures.
The oval indentation on her headstone once contained a ceramic image of her. It is long gone. All that is left is our memories of her
She was a sickly child, often hospitalized, and on a strict diet. Her medical condition arose from Jim having a blood type of RhD-positive, Marie being RhD-negative, in combination with Linda being the 4th child with RhD-positive blood. Medically speaking, if the mother is RhD-negative and carrying a RhD-positive baby, there is a risk of their blood mixing (this can happen during pregnancy or birth) resulting in the mother's immune system producing antibodies against the baby's blood, which is likely to cause anemia and other problems in the baby and especially in future pregnancies. The risk grows exponentially with succeeding pregnancies. Medicine presently has a vaccine for the mother to prevent her body from producing these harmful antibodies making it safe for all pregnancies.
I had no pictures of Linda and thought they were lost to time. To my excitement, Brenda (Bartels) Parm, daughter of Shirley Ann (Allen) Bartels sent me pictures.
The oval indentation on her headstone once contained a ceramic image of her. It is long gone. All that is left is our memories of her
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