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Peach&Fireworks
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Cord blood banking - yay or nay?
Peach&Fireworks
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I'm on the fence with this. I guess I need to do some research on it tomake the best decision. Our friends did it and keep telling us about it (I think they get referral money - I can't think of any other reason they'd be so gung-ho about tellng us about it literally every time we see them). What are you gong to do?
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Re: Cord blood banking - yay or nay?
I'm just donating.
The doctor's office just gave us info. about this yesterday and are offering some money off the initial price but I just don't think we can afford it right of the bat like that. So we are going with no. I am interested in finding out about donating it though.
I doubt it cause it?s way too $$$$ If it?s 2 grand over there, it?ll be at least 4 or 5 here. No thanks. We?ll probably donate.
BUT my whole delivery and hospital visit and peditrician care will only be $2,500 cash, with no insurance. AND it?s at an American Hospital!
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We will donate. I can't see banking just for the what-if factor.
A coworker was able to bank her youngest child's for free due to an older child having previously had cancer. In their case, banking was a great idea, just incase the older child ever faces a relapse.
I read an interesting article last night about delayed cord clamping - which can't be done if you bank the blood.
Basically, the article said that babies actually need that blood, and clamping too early (or donating) makes them more likely to have problems including anemia and trouble breathing.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070816193328.htm
There were a bunch of other ones, if you type "delayed cord clamping" into google lots of stuff comes up.
Nay.
It is a lot of money for a very small chance of it helping much. There is a lot of good pr, but not a whole lot that it can really be useful for.
We would have donated DD's but our hospital wasn't set up for it and many aren't.
Ditto erinkate too about delaying cord clamping if possible. With DD we didn't cut the cord until it stopped pulsing, which is when most of the "good stuff" is used anyway.
Donating...there are actually a lot of conditions that the blood can't be used for if they appear in the baby (that parents think will help). In those cases, it's more effective to use someone else's cord blood.
If we were planning on having a bio sib for this one, we might think differently...but we are adopting all other children.
Donating, not banking. From what I've read, banking really is a waste of money and the blood. Chances are if your kid gets sick, then their own blood isn't going to help because it's diseased as well. And the chances of a sibling matching aren't good enough to warrant the cost and chance of it still being good after however many years.
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The hospital I plan to deliver at is only 1 of 5 in Texas (according to their website) that are really setup for donating. It's free and all you do is sign a consent form when you do your preregistration paperwork and they do everything else.
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Donating just as we did w/ our DD because:
1. there's a very slim chance that your child will need it and in addition to that there's a chance s/he won't be able to use the stem cells anyway (or immediate family). It's not always a match.
2. have done tons of research and most of the pediatricians recommend donating, not banking
3. my mom and sister have Type 1 diabetes so i love the idea that if no one can use our donations then there's a chance they can be used for research- maybe even helping to find a cure for something like juvenile diabetes
4. it's pricey
Sure, I hope we never need it, but in the case that we did I just have to cross my fingers that the banks would have a match for us.