Deciding To Save Baby's Cord Blood ??

My e-mail has recently been getting filled up with all kinds of cord blood registry companies that claim it's extremely important to save baby's cord blood after birth. It has a very little chance of being useful to your baby but a 30% chance of being useful to someone in your family, and you can donate it to people who really need it. I'm just wondering if any of you ladies have been informed of saving your baby's cord blood, and if so, what did you decide?

Quoting Week33-MyAzaleaJane:“ My e-mail has recently been getting filled up with all kinds of cord blood registry companies that claim ... [snip!] ... I'm just wondering if any of you ladies have been informed of saving your baby's cord blood, and if so, what did you decide?”

im doing it with hema quebec.  

Quoting Week33-MyAzaleaJane:“ My e-mail has recently been getting filled up with all kinds of cord blood registry companies that claim ... [snip!] ... I'm just wondering if any of you ladies have been informed of saving your baby's cord blood, and if so, what did you decide?”

i think that if you can afford it... do it!... im going to if we can afford it!

i hear it's VERY expensive

  mines free

OH wait haha im not saving it im donating it, my bad!

i was going to do it... my husband said no. after the boys were born he looked into it and said shit why didnt we bank. i think its a great thing

Quoting Darcy is gonna be a mom:“ i hear it's VERY expensive”

Yeah, it's like $1000 to start and then $100 a year after that. That's the only thing I'm worried about.

I wasnt going to bank mine because it was too expensive...But recently found out my boyfriends mother has breast cancer in stage 3....So i have offered it to her....shes bringing it up to her doctor and seems pretty excited about it.....So mine may not be banked but used right after baby is born......

I didn't do it, all you need to do is when your baby is born, just delay cutting the cord till all the fluids in the cord goes into the baby.I just saved you thousands of dollars.
and when they say they could use it for any of your other children, its BS, you have a higher chance of the siblings not being blood compatible than you do otherwise.

Quoting ♥Momma Squishyϖ:“ I didn't do it, all you need to do is when your baby is born, just delay cutting the cord till all the ... [snip!] ... any of your other children, its BS, you have a higher chance of the siblings not being blood compatible than you do otherwise.”

ummm okay  

Quoting amanda_mommy fobama:“ ummm okay  ”

ok what??

Quoting ♥Momma Squishyϖ:“ ok what??”

can you show me facts on this. because i researched and all i have read and all i had talked about says different than what you just posted. plus my sister and i are all a pos. my mom is O so we all have the same blood type. my sister michelle even gave my sister jen blood when there was a shortage and she needed it

Quoting amanda_mommy fobama:“ can you show me facts on this. because i researched and all i have read and all i had talked about says ... [snip!] ... we all have the same blood type. my sister michelle even gave my sister jen blood when there was a shortage and she needed it”

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060618224104.htm

http://www.dancewithshadows.com/business/pharma/umbilical-cord-babies.asp

http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/JCP98.html


"I'm a pediatrician who has had several families ask me about cord blood banking. I'd like to clear up the notion that cord blood banking is a kind a ''biological insurance'' for your unborn child. Many parents believe (and unfortunately many banking companies would have them believe) that if their unborn child should later in life develop leukemia or some other life threatening condition, his own stem cells could be used for a curative transplant. In fact, cord blood would never be used for an autologous (to yourself) transplant because the mutation which eventually led to the disease in question is present in these stem cells. A person needing a stem cell transplant would look to a sibling or unrelated donor. The AAP has recently published a policy statement regarding cord blood banking, recommending it only in the specific case in which an older sibling has a known condition in which a stem cell transplant may be needed. If you are one of these families, you probably already know that Children's Hospital Oakland provides free cord blood banking. If you are not such a family, they will also bank your cord blood for free, but will treat it as a donation. If you need it for a sibling or relative in the future you can use it if it's still there, but it won't be held for you if it's needed for someone else. If knowing all this, you still decide that you'd like to privately bank your infant's cord blood, perhaps on the chance that he might save a sibling who develops a need for a transplant or perhaps thinking that someday in the future our technology might be such that autologous transplants are more common, then do your homework on the company you are using. Collection amounts, transport and processing times, storage conditions are widely variable amongst the different banking companies and really make a difference in whether or not the sample will ever be usable. Believe it or not there are families out there paying alot of money to preserve a cord blood sample that is not even viable - either not enough cells collected or not stored at the correct temperature, etc. I personally feel that the private cord blood banking industry is preying upon a parent's fear of the unknown and taking adavantage of our intense deisre to protect our infant from whatever harm awaits. I would encourage anyone interested in banking cord blood to consider donating to the Children's Hospital Oakland cord blood bank (or at least use the private bank that Children's uses to store their samples).
concerned pediatrician"

it still says it can be used for siblings... its insuance so i dont see why you think it shouldnt be done... also even donating it can help some one. i dunno i see no down side aside from money...