Hi ladies!!
A little about me, I'm currently 25 weeks pregnant with our little girl! She was conceived via IVF after 3 failed rounds of IUI.
Now, I'm starting my research on the benefits of Delayed Cord Clamping vs Cord Blood Banking. We could also throw Cord Blood Donation in there if we don't have enough to read about.

I am looking for your ladies thoughts and insight into what is the best route to go. While money is a factor for us, if CBB is the better option, we'd find the money for it. What is your thoughts/experience on this? If you did/are doing CBB, do you have a lab recommendation?
Thank you in advance!!
**TW**
Me: 31, DH:33
TTC since October 2015: MFI
Summer 2016: 3 IUI's: BFN
October 2016: Switched RE's and began IVF cycle
December 2016: Retrieved 13 eggs, 12 mature, 9 fertilized with ICSI. 5 day ET of 2 blasts with 4 frosites left. BFP!!!! EDD: 8/30/2017
August 25, 2017: It's a Girl!!
April 12, 2019: FET, BFP!!! Baby BOY EDD: 12/29/2019
Re: Delayed Cord Clamping or Cord Blood Banking
I've looked into this quite a bit now (I'm in Canada though so there's a different opinion here). We'll be doing delayed cord clamping (which we'll do with a scheduled C-section as well if it goes that way - if it becomes an emergent C then we just can't) - Our hospital's standard is to wait 2-3 minutes already but I'll be asking for 3-5 minutes or once the cord stops pulsing (pending we dont bank) to ensure as much blood as possible is transferred back to our baby - really helps with oxygen and iron supply. There is a Cochrane study that says delaying cord clamping for as long as three minutes increases increases blood volume by 40%, and therefore red blood cell count and iron storage capacity. My OB (who teaches the Midwifery program) says that ultimately, since they don't "rush" to clamp and cut the cord now that you don't even notice the 3 minutes - it's just part of the process since immediate skin to skin/rub down is the standard now rather than clamp, cut and take away to rub down before giving the baby to mom. Asking for the 5 is just asking the OB to be a bit more aware of the timing but they just don't rush to clamp and cut anymore.
Cord banking/Cord Tissue Banking - Our OB said they can wait 1-2 minutes for some blood transfer but no longer otherwise they won't be able to harvest enough blood. The nice thing is, if you had more than one child, you won't have to do it again as that first child's blood banking "should" supply the family which for me made the cost much more worth it. For us,we are a bit torn, but moving towards not banking. Currently we don't have any illnesses in our families that may give us an indication we should just incase due to high risk but I hope that we never have to feel as if we should have. Cost is a factor for us as well but like you said could be so worth it. It's so tough to decide - for the inital costs and 18 years of banking is about $3000. We also looked at Cord Tissue banking because so far what they think they could use it for we DO have in our family (diabetes, arthritis etc) but the research is still in the early stages and spending $3000 on a hope it will become a routine use and that they uses aren't necessarily life and death it just isn't worth it at this time for us.
Sorry for the novel but I hope it's helpful - like I said, I'm in Canada, so maybe a different perspective from my OB but we're all human right
I found talking with my OB and family doctor really helped us with our decisions - we need a lot of education and filtering for circumcision as well - that was another brain buster for us because of family tradition and new standards. So many new standards out there for everything since we were born - a lot more to think about!
DX: Endometriosis - Stage 4, Low AMH
03.2016 - Natural BFP - MC 5w4d
10.2016 - IUI w/ Injections #1 = IUI Cancelled (cyst/no mature follicle)
11.2016 - IUI w/ Injections #2 = BFP, EDD 08.13.2017 - It's a BOY!
TTC #2 06.2019
08.2019 - IUI w/ Injections #1 = Chemical
09.2019 - IUI w/ Injections #2 = BFN
10.2019 - IUI w/ Injections #3 = BFN
01.2020 - IUI w/ Injections #4 = BFN
08.2020 - Natural BFP - MC 9w5d
11.2020 - IVF funded retrieval/freeze all due to COVID
As for delayed cord clamping, it's such a new practice that there isn't much research yet to prove there is much benefit, if any. We haven't officially made our decision on this yet but we're leaning towards not doing it.
Me: 34, DH: 38 ~ TTC since 2014
IUI #1-3 (Nov 2015, Feb 2016, May 2016) = BFNs
IVF ER (July 2016) = 7 PGS normal embryos
FET #1 (Sept 2016) = BFP! DD born 5/30/17
FET #2 (April 2019) = BFN
FET #3 (July 2019) = BFP! DS born 3/27/20
We opted for Cord blood banking. We lost my mother in law 2 years ago to cancer and it could have been cured with a bone marrow transplant, so we chose to do it due to that. We went with Via Cord and they were really good and gave us a great discount for twins. We only ended up paying like $300 more for the second baby.
**Trigger warning**
Age: 25 DH: 28 Together since 2011, Married May 2014 and TTC since April 2015
MFI (3% morphology)
3/16 - IUI with femara & ovidrel - BFN
4/16 - IUI with femara & ovidrel - BFN
6/16 IUI with femara & ovidrel - BFN
8/19/16 - IVF -
We wanted to do delayed cord clamping but due to the circumstances of her birth it was in her best interest to cut the cord right away so she could be evaluated.
Me 39 DH44
1st DE FET 5/16-BFN
2nd DE FET 7/18-BFP
8/17 Baby HR 140/min EDD 4/6/17
I did not do any banking. It seemed like a long shot insurance policy and I didn't feel that was necessary.
Me: 42, DH: 46, Married: 11/12
Losses: MMC#1 11/12 BO, MC#2 11/13 at 8w BO?, MMC#3 8/14 chromo healthy M @12 weeks, stopped growing at 10.
Negligible AMH, FSH finally went high. Pursued DE.
DD born at 38w2d on 5-27-16. Finally!!
Pregnant again with OE. EDD 11/9/17 Girl!
*May Siggy Challenge - Parenting Fails*
https://www.lucieslist.com/newsletter/week-28-truth-cord-blood-banking/
Me: 37, DH:39
August 2016: Started Stims 8/22
September 2016: Egg Retrieval 9/4 | 13 Mature Eggs | 10 Fertilized | 3 Blastocytes | 1 PGS Normal Embaby
November 7, 2016: FET - BFP!
EDD 7/25/17
Zoey Alexis born 7/25/17 @ 12:39 PM | 7lbs 14oz | 19 inches
I will say, they had issues with getting my cord blood. The blood wasn't flowing out well for them to collect it, so they were milking the cord to get it out. While doing this, my placenta separated from the uterus wall and I had some bleeding issues and lost almost a liter of blood. Plus, in the chaos, one of the MDs got a needle stick and had to scrub out to attend to that, so it was even MORE chaotic getting this sorted out. Everything ended up fine, but just FYI there can be a bit of a risk in doing all of this, since they are leaving the placenta in place while getting the cord blood and when the uterus starts contracting down you can have bleeding.
Chemo killed my ovaries (along with a BRCA1 mutation, which causes DOR)
4/30/13 ER just prior to chemo: 8 embryos frozen at 2pn. 2 survived to blasts/1 PGS normal
4/16 ER cancelled on CD7: 1 follicle on L/ 0 follicles on R
FET #1 7/13/16 BFN
Super shocker +HPT 9/19
Baby Alyce arrived 5/8/17
Went forward with donor eggs from my sister for baby #2
ER 4/24, 5 eggs fertilized/1 survived to blast and was chromosomally normal.
FET 2/15 (my sister/donor's birthday!). Beta 10dp5dt:172; beta 12dp5dt: 425
My TTC/Cancer/Random thoughts blog: http://www.dinktodiapers.blogspot.com/
Me: 31, DH:33
TTC since October 2015: MFI
Summer 2016: 3 IUI's: BFN
October 2016: Switched RE's and began IVF cycle
December 2016: Retrieved 13 eggs, 12 mature, 9 fertilized with ICSI. 5 day ET of 2 blasts with 4 frosites left. BFP!!!! EDD: 8/30/2017
August 25, 2017: It's a Girl!!
April 12, 2019: FET, BFP!!! Baby BOY EDD: 12/29/2019