Cord Blood

Carolina Panther Fan

Did anyone bank theirs?

raceyrae

We donated it. 

futureJHL

We donated.  I just couldn't justify spending the $$.

withoutshoes

We donated ours also.

Carolina Panther Fan

Wow, I just started reading up on this the cost is HUGE

slhall730

I want to donate it but couldn't find a place in Clt. Do you ladies know of a place around here?

MrsHughesNC

Donated it.

slhall--our hospital did the donation--you just had to listen to their spiel, and sign some forms. At least that's how it was at Rex.

murph04

We donated it as well. Rex works with the Carolinas Cord Blood Bank.

https://www.cancer.duke.edu/ccbb/

Shal, someone at the hospital where you plan to deliver may be able to help you find a bank if you're interested in donating it. 

BlairWaldorf

We'll donate it.

slhall730

From everything I have googled and researched there is no place to donate in Charlotte - but I will call Presbyterian to double check!

bobsbride2006

We're banking ours. We found a company with a $740 discount for MDs, RNs, PAs, and NPs. Also, we have family members with leukemia and Parkinson's, so we felt it was worth the investment. The company we went with doesn't charge anything if not enough cells are harvested initially. If we need the stem cells in the future and they're not stored properly, they give us $50,000 (basically the cost of buying them).

mrsNnearly

We donated ours.

alchris

We donated as well.  Admittedly it was a huge pain in the butt since our hospital isn't part of the Carolina's Cord Blood Bank group, but it was worth it if it can help save someone's life.

This is what we did:

https://www.cryo-intl.com/enroll/donating/

I know of no one else (until this post ) who has donated, so I have no idea if our experience was the norm.  Again, it was still totally worth it though.