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Cord Blood Banking

tamarar5tamarar5 member
in February 2013 Moms
Got a flyer in the mail offering money off but it doesn't say anywhere how much it costs. Did anyone do this last time? Would you she l share what it cost so we could decide whether the coupon is worth saving?

I know there is no price to protect your children, but we plan our budget extremely carefully and if there are yearly maintenance fees we have to plan accordingly.
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Re: Cord Blood Banking

  • tamarar5tamarar5 member
    I wanted to do that last time, but they ended up having to cut him right away because he wasn't breathing well on his own. I was kind of our of it, overwhelmed, but I think the idea was to encourage him to breathe, but also so they could get him to the warmer and monitor him better.
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  • kelly321kelly321 member
    You can either do delayed clamping or donate, too, as absolutely free options. My best friend is an oncology RN and says cord blood donations regularly save lives of people with leukemia. If your child gets leukemia, their own stem cells don't help. So banking it for yourself is more of a "in case science develops a way to use stem cells to help in the future" kind of thing.

    With DD1 I couldn't donate because of the HELLP and she was a preemie. With DD2 I wanted to donate but didn't note it on my documents and forgot as the c/s came about rather quickly again. For LO3 I'm going to make sure to document it early so that, as long as all goes well with the delivery, it can be donated.

    BFP1: DD1 born April 2011 at 34w1d via unplanned c/s due to HELLP, DVT 1 week PP
    BFP2: 3/18/12, blighted ovum, natural m/c @ 7w4d
    BFP3: DD2 born Feb 2013 at 38w4d via unplanned RCS due to uterine dehiscence

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  • djm31012djm31012 member

    I did cord blood banking. This falls into the same camp as vaccines/BF/etc so hopefully no wars start right now! I will not give an opinion of why i chose to do it-not worth it--there is a ton of rsch you can read or I can PM you if you want.

    To answer ur question...It was about $1800 to bank and its about $150 a year thereafter. We used CBR but I think Viacord, etc are all the same.

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  • tamarar5tamarar5 member
    Thank you for all the answers! And thank you @djm31012!
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  • Gftf7Gftf7 member
    We did not, but I casually looked into it, which means I asked a few close family members about it.  One family member did decide to do it because of an unusual mix of cultural heritages (Chinese, Norwegian and German).  One family member did not, but wished they would have and cited the mix of cultural heritages as the reason (Japanese, Irish, Norwegian, German and maybe a small percentage of something else).  

    I had also looked into donating the cord blood, but like @verovladamir mentioned, it would have been a bit of work that would have all fallen on me to do.  I just wasn't that ambitious.  

    Good luck with your decision!  
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  • poppyc8poppyc8 member
    We used CBR. It was about 2000 to bank. I'm not sure how much per year to store.
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