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Selecting a Cord Blood Banking Service
I'm pregnant with twins, due mid-September and we have decided to bank the cord blood. Does anyone have any advice on which service is the best? ...
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- We used CBR - Cord Blood Registry. They were highly recommended by my OBGYN. They made it very easy - quick to the hospital and low stress on our part. Ask your doc...
- I used viacord and don't have an opinion either way. They were fast getting to the hospital and I didn't have any issues.
- I would ask the cord bank what procedures they have in place to make certain that the twins’ cords and placentas are collected and stored separately. Ask if they per...
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 ...
Cord Blood Banking
Read all 24 responses: "Hi Moms, Can any of you tell me your experiences and who you went with for cord blood banking if you have? Thanks."
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- R., I have three boys. With the first two we asked my doctors about banking and they acted like it was a bunch of baloney. Because of the cost and their opinion we cou...
- Hi R., I went with Alphacord for both of my children and thought they were great. Their service is not expensive and there are no hidden costs. Here is their numbe...
- Hi R.. We went through CBR.........Cord Blood Registry and have had a really good experience so far. My friend told me about them and she has had no problems eithe...
Flu Vaccines & Cord Blood Banking
Read all 10 responses: "I am 32 weeks pregnant, due 11/7. I have 2 decisions to make that I am having a tough time with. The first is whether to get a flu ...
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- I found a great article by Dr. Sears on Facebook about vaccinations. My son was due for his 1st year shots and a flu shot and with the swine flu shot next month I felt...
- On the flu vaccine: I had a flu vaccine when I was pregnant. I was about 4 months into my pregnancy at the time. My son came out perfect, 2 weeks early, normal birt...
- I would definitely bank if the cost isn't an issue (it was with us unfortunately) and I think we just figured, "I'm sure everything will be fine". Well our son was bor...
Mom-to-be Seeking Advice on Cord Blood Storage
Read all 5 responses: "My husband and I are expecting our first child at the end of May and we are trying to decide whether or not to store her cord bood ...
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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...
Anyone 'Donated' Cord Blood Before?
Read all 8 responses: "Just wondered if anyone has donated cord blood before? Don't really see why I wouldn't do it but I guess it is just new territory so ...
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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...
What Did You Do About Cord Blood Banking?
Read all 4 responses: "We banked child #1's with LifeBank USA. Did not bank child #2 (& now he's Type 1 diabetic...if we had, he could be currently ...
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- Please, everyone, make the selfless decision to bank your childs cord. there is not one single reason not to.
- I think it is a joke and heavily marketed as a savior for all diseases that you know. If you read closely, it does NOT give ANY concrete claims and NEVER makes any ...
- Hey there C., we are using CBR (cord blood registry.) I found them to be super helpful with our first and now we will be using them for our second also. Here is a li...
Recent Ultrasound Showed 2 Vessels in Umbilical Cord Instead of 3
After my daughter was born I was even able to donate her cord blood. It was important to me, that this situation that caused me stress was able to help out ...
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- laying down on your left side increases blood flow to the baby
- At the 20 week ultrasound in my first pregnancy a two vessal cord was found. I was monitored to make sure he was growing with ultrasounds every few weeks. Everything w...
- My daughter, now 18 months, also had only 2 vessels in the umbilical cord and we were quite worried as well. I had extra level-2 ultrsounds and then weekly non-stress ...
Thoughts About Cord Blood Banking
Read all 28 responses: "Hi Moms- I am due with my first child in early June and I doing some research about cord blood banking. Does anyone have thoughts ...
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- Hi L., As a single mom of a 2 yr old boy. I too had a hard time deciding to bank my sons cord blood due to the cost. What I did was imagine the thousands of dolla...
- Greetings, I had twins (2 baby girls) in October and my husband and I banked their cord blood. Well ... sorta. My girls were full term, the midwives did the collect...
- I have always wanted to do Cord banking, but just couldn't afford it. (and have always felt guilty afterward--what if something happens??) But I was just recently a...
Velamentous Insertion of Umbilical Cord
I have no idea if that was related to the v.cord situation or not. Knowing what I know now, ... pregnancy placenta previa · private cord blood banking ...
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- J., I had my healthy, 7 lb 2oz son vaginally @ 36 weeks. I'd had a positive AFP3 result and lots of sonograms that showed he was developing normally but did not detec...
- hi again, i googled this to see if it was what i had with my daughter, they never gave me a name, we never knew i had it until she was born. they said that the cord wa...
- While I am not familiar with the risks of a vaginal delivery with VCI, I unfortunately had the personal experience of having a very serious and life threatening condit...
