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Cord Blood Banks
Read all 7 responses: "Hello moms! I was wondering if some of you have opted for doing the cord blood bank during the birth of your child.
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- so my background is in transfusion medicine-- blood banking. the feeling from this perspective is that cord blood is not recommended at this point bc there aren't any ...
- I read an article about this a few weeks ago and it really discouraged the practice. If your child develops some type of disease and you try to use the cord blood, it...
- N., when I was in the position of deciding, I asked pediatricians that I was interviewing about the banking cord blood. Have you found one yet? If so, why don't you ...
Stem Cell Banking
We donated my daughter's cord blood. Many blood banks are doing this now. ... The hospital called the blood bank and they came to pick it up. ...
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- Hi. I have 5 girls and with my last one (Aug 2007) I decided to bank her stem cells, mainly because breast cancer and skin cancer run in my husband's family. My OB/G...
- Hi D., Congratulations and best wishes for a quick and painless delivery! We donated my daughter's cord blood. Many blood banks are doing this now. It's a s...
- Hi- We used LifeBank USA to bank our daughters cord. We were very happy with them. The customer service was wonderful and the pick up was so easy. My husband just c...
Seeking Advise on Whether or Not to Store Cord Blood
The cord blood banks will store the cord blood from your birth but there are no ... Banking or donating your cord blood is your decision and only you can ...
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- Hi! We stored my sons cord blood and probably will do it again with our daughter who is due at the end of August. I look at it this way: for $1700 (apx.) you can st...
- we have donated our cord blood. We just couldn't justify the cost of storing it ourselves forever, for a "maybe" we'll use it.
- Our family has no history of any diseases that would warrant cord blood storage. For us, it was too much money for something like that. We opted instead for donation...
Cord Blood
The downside- Banking Cord Blood is expensive. I think we paid around $2000 to bank .... Next question: Cord Blood Banking for Stem Cells - Anyone Done It? ...
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- Cord Blood is saved to preserve stem cells. These cells can be reproduced and have been found VERY helpful in curing diseases in children like luekemia. Because the ...
- Are you pregnant and deciding whether or not to store? Wasn't too sure in your question. If you are, here goes. Cord blood storage has been going on for a few years...
- I don't think it helps neurological issues (I have four children with autism, I would have been saving their chords if I thought it might help!)
Cord Blood Registry Help
My husband and I would like to bank our baby's cord blood, but I'm not sure ... The whole point of cord blood banking is that their cord blood is for them ...
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- i banked my daughter's cord blood with the national registry. it's free and if it's still available, we can use hers. if it's not...then they select the closest match ...
- our doctor seemed to trust Cord blood registry- if you ask your peditrician- they usually have videos and coupons. M.
- Hi Jen, We started researching each registry and found that Viacord had what we were looking for. They were not merely a storage facility but did research as well. ...
Anyone Bank Their Cord Blood
Read all 9 responses: "Hi I'm 7m pregnant with my second child and I did not bank or donate my cord blood with my first child, however I'm thinking of doing ...
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- Hi S., I am 36 weeks pregnant with my 2nd one also, I am not banking but donating my cord blood, however it took me 5 weeks to figure out where I could donate since t...
- I banked both my kid's cord blood with CBR. Once you bank it, it costs you about 100/year to store. I realize there is a very small chance that we'll need it, but if ...
- Ditto to what Karen said. We are also going to donate it instead of bank it for ourselves. The info is sparse and not quite certain with banking. We'd rather make i...
Baby Blood Cord Banks
Sep 5, 2009 ... Read all 14 responses: "My sister is 20 weeks pregnant and shes tossing around the idea of investing in the blood cord bank.
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- C., I would encourage banking it. I never woudl have thought that my daughter woudl be dignosed with leukemia at the age of 28 months old. This was 12 years ago. Cord...
- Donate the Cord Blood. If more people donated, we wouldn't need to store our own. It's free and you feel good about it. Also, you don't even know it's going on when...
- Keep in mind, some Drs get "kickbacks" so they'll push just about anything... that's my thought. It is extremely expensive. My Dr basically said it's very very expen...
Anyone 'Donated' Cord Blood Before?
I did a lot of research on this and decided that private cord blood banking was not a good choice for us, but donation would have been had I known about the ...
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- I banked my daughter's cord blood through Viacord when she was born 17 months ago at Loudoun Hospital. My doctor was agreeable to my banking of my daughter's cord bloo...
- Actually we ended up saving our baby's cord blood due to the fact that heart problems run in my husbands family and they are doing amazing things with these cells and ...
- I did. Well, I didn't donate it - meaning I'm having it stored for my family's use. I delivered my son at Reston, and Cord Blood Resgistry is the company I used. Th...
Mom-to-be Seeking Advice on Cord Blood Storage
I'm expecting in May as well, and the cost of banking cord blood was too high for us right now, but I just read about another option. You can donate the ...
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- Hi J., I'm expecting in May as well, and the cost of banking cord blood was too high for us right now, but I just read about another option. You can donate the cord ...
- We were deterred by the financial costs. With our first child, we donated the cord blood, figuring that if it was used for research our child would benefit in that hi...
- Which company are you going through? We have our older daughter's cord blood stored through Cord Blood Registry (CBR) and it is definitely NOT $600/year to store. It...
Seeking Advice from Mamas on Whether to Bank Cord Blood.
Read all 13 responses: "I am debating on whether to bank my baby's cord blood. I am curious on how many other mamas decided for or against it.
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- We chose not to. The cost to do it, plus the annual on-going cost to maintain it, was not economically logical for us. It made more sense to funnel that money toward...
- When we had our first child we decided against saving it due to the cost. If you can afford it why not?
- I banked our daughters cord blood. I do not agree with the health risk to the child in previous posts. We decided to use Lifebank. In your search to decide to bank ...
