Anyone doing blood cord/tissue banking?

eiliev88 · July 2015

Anyone saving the baby's cord blood/tissue or donating it?

jlsweets · July 2015

We banked our son's blood and tissue and will with this one as well. My husband has MS so to us it was important as they are currently doing research with the tissue. God forbid any of our child are diagnosed with it we want to know we did everything we could. Could very well be that we never end up using it and nothing ever develops but we look at it as insurance.
That being said, if there were no illnesses present I don't think we would bank, as it is very costly.

acgonzalez22 · July 2015

We are doing cord banking because of diseases that run in both our families. If we had not had any potential threats, we would have loved to donate.

PixelPosy · July 2015

My MIL is currently battling cancer and having issues with her bone marrow. My husband asked me to look into if banking the chord blood could possibly help her. Normally due to the expensive of private banking we wouldn't have considered it.

Shine2015 · July 2015

We hope to donate it. We planned on it with DS but he was born over the weekend and the donation agency didn't have anyone on staff.

trudytudy · July 2015

I donated with my first child and I'm glad I did. They will contact us to be sure that we don't need it prior to donating it. I would donate this time but the hospital doesn't do it. Different hospital.

Saratiff · July 2015

We are donating. As a nurse I know the Miracles that cord blood can do for someone. It was an easy decision.

gokahne9 · July 2015

I wanted to donate, but it looks like I should have made the decision before 34 weeks. Now I don't qualify. I personally decided against banking after doing a lot of research. There are very few documented cases of the baby actually being able to use their own cord blood to cure a disease. And the diseases that is does cure are very rare. However, I think it's great that this is out there as an option for people if you have the means.

ambercdc · July 2015

We are doing the cord blood banking through viacord. We feel good about having it saved in case she would ever need it

lmtflower · July 2015

I'm interested in the subject as well. Doctor brought it up during our appointment today. The husband and I have been talking about it for a while. Still on the fence, mostly because of cost.

bumpuser10704024 · July 2015

We are donating it, as we did with our DDs

cseley321 · July 2015

Donating it

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