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Cord blood storage

HappeewifeHappeewife
in Parenting after 35

I am 28 weeks pregnant and need to decide in a couple of weeks to do this.  We have the money in savings but need to get another car and I have been out of work so I will go looking again in Jan. LO is due in November.  It is just expensive and the chances of needing it are low. how many of you opted out of it even though you had the money. Were there other reasons for not doing it?

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Re: Cord blood storage

  • Temp159135562506975Temp159135562506975 member

    here's a good article about donating.

    https://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/jan07cordblood.htm

     

    we donated Griffin's... we couldn't donate the twins b/c they don't take it from twins (they can't get enough for the cost of collecting)

    find out if your doc does donation collections- not all do, some charge for it.

    we didn't bank private b/c we don't have any treatable diseases in our family, and the chances of needing it are so small and costs so high.  If everyone donated there would be more matches for people (ie- how we don't bank our own blood- there is enough public blood)

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  • ilovemygirlsilovemygirls member
    When I had asked my OB about it when pg w/#1 he said the chances you would need to use it were so small you were better off putting that $$ towards a college fund.  If we would have had any medical issues in our family that may cause need for it down the line, I definitely would have looked into it further.  Once we decided we weren't going to store, I really wanted to donate it.  However, at our hospital the only way you could do that was if the blood bank happened to be there when you were giving birth- there was no way to 'plan ahead' to donate. I was bummed about that. 
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  • Katiedid1806Katiedid1806

    We also were at a hospital where donation was not possible, and even though it was tight (I can always come up with other options for $2500), DH felt strongly about it. He had an employee whose 3/4yo son was diagnosed with cancer - 6 months after being in the hospital for an "infection" (I still think that they failed to complete all the tests, stopping when they got a single possible answer). He needed all sorts of blood donations, tests, procedures, etc. It scared DH. He decided that whatever needed to be done, our child(ren) would have every chance no matter how small the risk.

    So, we banked the 1st kid's and won't be banking #2 (it can be used for siblings). Still wish I could donate this one though.

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  • NoelleHansenNoelleHansen
    My understanding is that they can get stem cells from the pulp of the baby teeth. So if its something you would like to do later, your dentist can pull the baby tooth when its ready to come out and pop it into this kryo thing and send it off. I think it is a couple hundred dollars and a yearly storage fee. Just a thought...
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  • fiazofiazo
    We did bank with Viacord. Figured since we have the money why not. Didn't want any regrets later. If we didn't have the money, I'm not sure that we would have done it. you are right chances are low, but you never know.
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