Cord Blood Banking

sarahann1941 · September 2010

Has anyone done this? We didn't for Evie, but now that we will have multiple children we were thinking about doing this when the new baby is born.

Any advice or experiences?

IndyPRGirl · September 2010

We did not, simply because of the cost involved.

However, we did donate it...and if we were to ever need it, we would be moved to the top of the list.

Val&B0604 · September 2010

We decided against it simply because of the cost. I don't know why we didn't donate it.

MrsJMB · September 2010

We were going to donate, but didn't find out about the process until it was too late. We're not planning on any more LOs, but if we did have another, we would donate.

marleysmom · September 2010

IndyPRGirl:

We did not, simply because of the cost involved.

However, we did donate it...and if we were to ever need it, we would be moved to the top of the list.

same here. i requested a donation kit online, and just informed my OB that we wanted to donate. I made sure to pack the kit with the rest of our hospital stuff. It was no big deal at all. we just dropped the kit off at the post office after we left the hospital.

sarahann1941 · September 2010

marleysmom:
IndyPRGirl:

We did not, simply because of the cost involved.

However, we did donate it...and if we were to ever need it, we would be moved to the top of the list.

same here. i requested a donation kit online, and just informed my OB that we wanted to donate. I made sure to pack the kit with the rest of our hospital stuff. It was no big deal at all. we just dropped the kit off at the post office after we left the hospital.

I thought about going this route but after doing the research in The midwest cord blood bank which is the Indiana donation center doesn't bank the donated cord blood they send it off for research. Is there another public donation place available that I'm not finding that actually banks it for transplant vs research ?

mrs.melluvslogan · September 2010

We donated Ellie's through the hospital so I didn't have to mess with anything--they took care of it all. We're doing the same thing this time around. I can't remember off the top of my head if they sent it to a bank or a research place though.

holdn5 · September 2010

One of my girlfriends donated hers and then proceed to receive a $200 bill in the mail for donating....I'm fairly certain that the bill was resolved, but keep an eye out in case you do donate.

IndyPRGirl · September 2010

ours was donated to be banked, not for research.

I requested the kit the week before we went in...she said they would have brought it to the hospital if needed. They also picked it up for us.

We never received a bill...

lemen99 · September 2010

We didn't due to cost.

I wanted to donate, but to be honest, when things went crazy I lost sight of what happened with that.

SweetTea*83 · September 2010

::butting in::

https://www.marrow.org/HELP/Donate_Cord_Blood_Share_Life/index.html

I randomly started reading about this last week after I signed up for the Bone Marrow Registry (it's free through the month of September). It looks like Indy doesn't have any participating hospitals (weird!), but other IN hospitals give the cords to Lifeforce Cryobanks. I wonder if you can donate to this bank as an individual and not through the hospital?

::butting out::

SusieDMB · September 2010

I had no idea you could donate it--you think they would ask you. My friend who is an ob-gyn did it b/c they offered it to her for free. They like to say they have drs who do it.

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