<blockquote><b>Quoting Aribean:</b>" I'm wondering if all the people choosing to save the living child by creating another to basically use ... [snip!] ... an actual surgery thatll only benefit another being it still falls under the same category of taking advantage of their bodies."</blockquote>

I don't see it that way, at all.
Cord blood is not part of the baby's actual body. It won't bring them pain.
And I don't feel that an infant has the right to "decide" anything. It's the parent's decision to make the choices at that age, and if it won't cause harm to the infant, then I see no issue, if it'll save my other child's life.
However--I must have overlooked where it said that there would be other things done than just taking cord blood. .

And also, to elaborate, I wouldn't do it if we financially couldn't support another child, or had no desire to have one, whatsoever. I wouldn't compromise the new child's quality of life just to have use of the cord blood.
I'm also not anti-circ.

I would save Emily. Hands down.

I'd delivery early to save my living child.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Aribean:</b>" I'm wondering if all the people choosing to save the living child by creating another to basically use ... [snip!] ... an actual surgery thatll only benefit another being it still falls under the same category of taking advantage of their bodies."</blockquote>


Exactly my thoughts.

If when this new baby is let's say makes it to 2 years old and the older daughter body starts to shut down again and needs stem sells... Later down needs a kidney transplant, needs a new lung or liver etc. when does it end? Til there is nothin else of the you get child left.. Then what .. They create another baby because Emily is still sick?!?? Where do you draw the line? You are playing operation on a child to save another child's life. Say your good byes.. Seriously. That's just smurfed up.

I think having a child to save your existing child is morally wrong, personally. I think it sends the message to the new child that their only purpose was to save their older sibling.

I would just hope for the best with Emily.

If the new baby is delievered early and died during or shortly after the birth.... are it's tissues and bone marrow and cells then useless? You could be killing them both. I don't know enough about the science of bone marrow and cells to know if they'd still be useful even after the death of the infant?!

Quoting Robbie's Incubator:" Your nine-year-old daughter, Emily, is dying. She has a life-threatening disease (Leukaemia or Lymphoma ... [snip!] ... the baby early and risk the baby's health to save Emily, or Emily could possibly die in less than a week. What do you do?"

Well if I put myself in the situation with it being my daughter IRL then I would deliver the baby (at a hospital like Sick Kids so it had the best possible chance at survival) as horrible as that may make me. The bond that I have with my daughter would be much more then my bond with the baby I would have in my womb.. Especially if it was created basically solely for the purpose of saving my living child.

Quoting Brookelynn's Mommy:" It sounds like that movie "My Sister's Keeper," or atleast thats what it reminds me of."

I was just about to say this.

I would do anything to save her.

Id do whatever I could to save my daughter. It may make me a monster... but my Lily is my life. I'd do whatever means necessary to save her.

Quoting FroggysMommy:" Id do whatever I could to save my daughter. It may make me a monster... but my Lily is my life. I'd do whatever means necessary to save her."

 
Pretty much. Before I had my LO I answered differently but I'd do almost anything to save my LO.

I'd do it.

i dont know if its because you picked DDs name, but i would do anything possible to save her life. 27 weeks can be viable, if there is going to be so much preparation in this whole thing i would hope they have given me steroid shots just in case something like this would happen.
i can honestly say i would absolutely lose my mind without DD. just the thought about this is making me want to cry. damn you for using her name!  

Quoting FroggysMommy:" Id do whatever I could to save my daughter. It may make me a monster... but my Lily is my life. I'd do whatever means necessary to save her."

Yup. I'd do anything to save Peyton. I know that sounds wrong but I would.

If Emily needed CORD BLOOD, I would have another baby to give that to my Emily. However, in the event that Emily needed it before the baby was ready, I would not deliver and risk killing one of my babies to save another. As a mother of two, I love both my children the same and could NEVER choose between them so I would have to let nature run it's course, unfortunely.. gosh, I hope to never be faced with something like that.

That's a really hard question because I know at 27 weeks my baby would probably have a better chance at surving than Emily but still my heart is telling me no, I couldn't do that to my baby.

Thankfully, I am a universal donor so I could give my Emily the bone marrow myself and organs.. there is no way I would take an organ from one child to give to the other. The cord blood, sure.. but that's it.