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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 ...
Cord Blood Donation
Read all 6 responses: "I have had a hard time finding a place to donate my baby's cord blood to. I had first thought about banking it but in doing some ...
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- If you don't want it and want to donate-- contact the Banking place and see if they take donations or know of a company that can get it from them to deliver to the don...
- I donated my 1 yo. blood cord Call the The Texas Blood Cord Bank at Medical City Dallas at ###-###-####. They will send someone or a kit to the Hospital you deliver a...
- An oncologist might be able to help you 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...
Banking Cord Blood
Read all 10 responses: "My husband and I are undecided as to whether or not we should bank our baby's cord blood. Does anyone have any opinions on the ...
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- A friend of ours lost their first,a 9 month old son on Dec 7,2006 from a genetic disease they didn't know either parent carried. Had they known at the time, cord blood...
- I am very glad we decided to store our babies blood. It is a tough decicion but with the technlogy we are seeing in 2007, imagine what scientists will know in 2020! An...
- Just a request... If you decide not to store the cord blood for yourselves, PLEASE DONATE IT!!! This procedure is totally free of cost (although your own doctor mi...
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 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. ...
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!)
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, ... Seeking Advice from Mamas on Whether to Bank Cord Blood. ...
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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?
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...
Stem Cell Banking
We donated my daughter's cord blood. Many blood banks are doing this now. It's a simple process to pick up the kit and bring it with you to the hospital. ...
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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...
