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Austrailia has about 300,000 births a year, or 20 million in the last 60 years.

Seems unlikely that austrailia would have a 5% miscarriage rate if he hadn't donated blood. With risk that high it's something you'd expect to know about widely, with at least 1 in 50 mothers receiving the injection




Rh disease is taught about in high school, and is one of the first things doctors check for. If a woman is of type negative blood, then she will likely have been told as a young girl that her children may be at risk depending on the father.

I guess what Iā€™m saying is ā€” rh disease is probably the most widely known and treated complication of pregnancy




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