Cord Blood...

[LovesMeSomeCake]

thoughts? I just got an email from the OB practice advertising the service.  How much does this even cost? have any of you done it? Would you? thanks!

[lakegirl]

We opted not to do it because of the cost. I don't remember the exact numbers but after the initial cost there was yearly maintenance fees. Our friends did it and gave us the info. But it's never come up in conversation again. I think you can straight up donate it to a national cord blood bank too? But I was too overwhelmed by the end of my pregnancy to seriously look into it. I might be more interested in that as opposed to keeping it for ourselves.

[otepoti]

With DS I donated the cord blood through a charity that worked with the hospital. Their aim is to grow their blood bank to help more people. I would love to do that again but they have since stopped offering it. I don't think I would pay to have this baby's cord blood stored, it just seems a lot of money on a maybe need when I would rather it go to help others in a view that the same bank could help DS and new baby in the future. I guess I'm just tight

[judyblume14]

We didn't with DD and don't plan to with #2. It's very expensive.

[thelittleredm]

We decided not to do it. We considered donating it but then decided we really wanted to do delayed cord clamping and the hospital couldn't do both.

[heybulldog56]

We did not do with DS and will not do it this time either. I would rather do delay cord clamping and, as others have said, it is too expensive.

[rinny]

We also opted for delayed cord clamping.

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Jun 22, 2016 18:25:02 GMT -5 opheliainwaders said:

So my take is this (maybe out of date, since my research was from 2013):

There isn't a lot they can do with it now--in essence it could maybe help a current or future child in the future if science catches up with theory, but it's a lot to pay for a possibility.

It's totally ok to donate it, but check with your hospital, because I think some don't really have the capacity to handle donations.

Finally, I opted to delay cord clamping for DD, and I think if you donate/bank cord blood you can't do that.

This is what I read into too last year. I also found that say your child had a genetic disease, the cord blood would have it as well.

We also wanted delayed cord clamping and I was happy to find it's our hospital's standard procedure.

[peaseblossom55]

No idea,I didn't think about this yet, but we probably won't. I'd prefer delayed cord clamping.

[ellabee]

Jun 22, 2016 19:25:09 GMT -5 thelittleredm said:

We decided not to do it. We considered donating it but then decided we really wanted to do delayed cord clamping and the hospital couldn't do both.

Ditto.

[jrun2013]

Not much to add about the cord blood, we didn't do it, but this thread got me interested in delayed cord clamping since I didn't know why it's a thing. I obviously didn't do delayed cord clamping and was quite surprised when the dr told me the placenta didn't deliver and she had to "go in there and get it." I had no idea this was something that happened until that moment. Anyway, i just learned that immediate cord clamping can lead to a high risk of retained placenta. Definitely something for me to consider this time around.

If I knew how to gif, I'd do the more you know gif.

Also, sorry if tmi.

[lakegirl]

For jrun2013!

[jrun2013]

lakegirl, Thanks! That's the one I wanted!

[otepoti]

FYI you CAN delay cord clamping and donate. I did both.

[osumegs]

My hospital wasn't set up to donate. H and I weren't interested in paying the fees to bank when we looked into it. They did end up taking the placenta and (I think) a cord blood sample for research they were doing on preeclampsia. I was well into labor when they discussed it with me so I forget details.

We didn't do delayed clamping as DD was blue at birth and it was immediately cut so she could go to the NICU team for eval.