rhesus baby

Tina runs a huge risk of having a rhesus baby and this, her third pregnancy has been very difficult.

They've launched an appeal for a scanner to help in the treatment of Rhesus babies while they're still in the womb.

Just a few days later baby Joe was born, weighing just four and three quarter pounds, but healthy; living proof that rhesus babies now have the chance they deserve.

If sharp spikes were made to randomly thrust out of the mother's body when the rhesus babies held it, they waited patiently for the spikes to recede and returned to clutching it.

There are about 200 at risk rhesus babies each year and when it comes to treating them, ultra sound scanners have made the difference, making it much easier to carry out accurate safe transfusions.