Cord Blood Banking...Many Options??

Re: Cord Blood Banking...Many Options??

• SuperSecretStatus member

  September 2013

  In all honesty, cord blood banking is mostly a waste of money. The best route is to donate it because the chances of being able to use the blood you bank are very minute.
  

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• WashingtonQueen member

  September 2013

  I agree with PPs about donating it. Another option is to let your baby have all their blood back. If you will be breastfeeding there are tremendous iron benefits. Both my births I delayed cord clamping.

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• kdjudd member

  September 2013

  I agree with all of the other PPs. I was going to save my daughter's cord blood, but then I researched it and realized that it really is mostly a scam. I think delayed clamping is the best option!

   

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• MVS2013 member

  September 2013

  Agreed. Waste of money.

  I even read that if there is an illness where you need the blood from the cord it will be useless since most of them are in the cells and you carry them from birth. So you are using the same infected blood

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• Soap1 member

  September 2013

  Agree with all PPs, and pleased to see so many well informed opinions!  When I was originally researching this in 2009, the boards were all over cord blood banking, but I think that's before a lot of the research on it was easily available.

  
  

  Donate it!  Hey, the good karma can't hurt

  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  

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• msronzio member

  September 2013

  MosyMama said:

  Agreeing with PPs re: banking. Also, you can still donate cord blood after delayed cord clamping, from my understanding; they're not mutually exclusive. However, you may have to make arrangements yourself to donate to a blood bank, as my hospital (and many others) aren't affiliated with any institutions that routinely provide that option.

  I was looking at this thread and just wondering about this! An RN from my hospital said they don't donate and I was like whatttt? I was a little bummed about that.

  
  

  

  

  

  
  

  
  

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• CKBlondie member

  September 2013

  
  

  My boss's son was diagnosed with Leukemia at 4. After the diagnosis, they banked their very next child's cord blood and tissue and used it. She was one of those people who truly thought that kind of thing would never happen to her, that she wouldn't use the cord blood ever and then her first born son was diagnosed. Now she's a huge advocate for it. 

  
  

  When I was researching it, I found this statistic: 14,000 people a year bank their cords but annually only 600 people receive benefit from a banked cord (either their own or donated). So it is a slim chance but knowing someone who became one of those 600 is scary.

  
  

  I wouldn't say its a scam. It's just very profitable because not many people will end up using it. It's like Sink Hole Insurance (if you're a Floridian - you totally know what I mean.) 
  

  
  

  My husband and I decided we are going to do it because i) we know someone who has had to use it and ii) we have the capacity to pay for it without becoming financially strained. 

  
  

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• sooner1981 member

  September 2013 edited September 2013

  CKBlondie said:

  
  

  My boss's son was diagnosed with Leukemia at 4. After the diagnosis, they banked their very next child's cord blood and tissue and used it. She was one of those people who truly thought that kind of thing would never happen to her, that she wouldn't use the cord blood ever and then her first born son was diagnosed. Now she's a huge advocate for it. 

  
  

  When I was researching it, I found this statistic: 14,000 people a year bank their cords but annually only 600 people receive benefit from a banked cord (either their own or donated). So it is a slim chance but knowing someone who became one of those 600 is scary.

  
  

  I wouldn't say its a scam. It's just very profitable because not many people will end up using it. It's like Sink Hole Insurance (if you're a Floridian - you totally know what I mean.) 
  

  
  

  My husband and I decided we are going to do it because i) we know someone who has had to use it and ii) we have the capacity to pay for it without becoming financially strained. 

  
  

  The problem is that if you bank your child's cord blood and then they are diagnosed with leukemia, the doctors absolutely will not consider using that child's own blood to transplant, as that child's blood has a proven history of malignancy. They may use a sibling's banked cord blood, if it is a perfect match, but at that point, they could also do a bone marrow transplant from the matched sibling, so there really isn't a great deal of benefit to banking cord blood.
  
  

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