POLL: What are you doing with the cord blood?

[shaynaatl]

Poll question on cord blood- what will you do with it?

[simpsongal]

I have no idea.

[Deleted]

I know the chance of ever needing it is slim to none but we banked with our first kid and will bank with this one. I waste more money per yr on stupid things than the $200 it costs for me to bank.

[picksthemusic]

Letting my baby have it with delayed cord clamping.

[anna7602]

We delayed clamping with DD, but I honestly can't remember what led me to that decision. I need to read up on all of it again.

[VillainV]

We are planing on delayed clamping, so hopefully the baby will get all of the good stuff before the cord is cut.

[sent]

I have no idea what was done with the cord blood. No one ever asked if I wanted to do something with it.

[Deleted]

Nothing

[timorousbeastie]

Hoping for delayed cord clamping. I would *love* to donate, but a) I'm not eligible and b) my hospital doesn't participate in a donation based bank.

[marie3246]

I am going to talk to my doctor about delayed clamping at my next appt. We aren't going to bank it because it's so expensive. We got a quote and it was 4K. No thanks.

[humpforfree]

Going to talk with my doc about delayed clamping this week.

[Deleted]

Jan 24, 2014 9:59:55 GMT -5 marie3246 said:

I am going to talk to my doctor about delayed clamping at my next appt. We aren't going to bank it because it's so expensive. We got a quote and it was 4K. No thanks.

I banked in 2011 for $1700 with CBR plus $200 per yr.  I know it is even cheaper now and we are banking with them again.  So shop around.  CBR isnt even the cheapest.

[mellimel19]

We'll be doing delayed cord clamping.

[changedname]

delayed cord clamping.

[purrbox]

I plan on banking the cord blood.

I'm on the "Be the Match" bone marrow registry, and I found out through them that I have something rare in my blood or bone marrow that makes me an unlikely candidate to donate. I figure if it's unlikely that I'll find a match to give marrow to, then it's also unlikely that I would find someone who could donate to me. Maybe my kids will be in the same boat, so I'm banking the cord blood for them just to be safe.

[ringstrue]

I've heard that it's better to donate for most people (if the options are donate or bank) because usually if you need that blood for a medical issue, you'll need a different version than your own. So it's better to have a larger, diverse collection so more people have more chance to use it.

[SJ]

We will probably donate if possible. Otherwise, nothing.

Not going to do private banking.

[sonrisa]

We did delayed clamping.

[runblondie26]

Emory and Piedmont Health Systems have donations programs now, so we donated DS's.

I would never pay the crazy cost to privately bank it. I feel good knowing it could be used to help a sick patient or for research.

[FastHands]

Jan 24, 2014 13:29:04 GMT -5 purrbox said:

I plan on banking the cord blood.

I'm on the "Be the Match" bone marrow registry, and I found out through them that I have something rare in my blood or bone marrow that makes me an unlikely candidate to donate. I figure if it's unlikely that I'll find a match to give marrow to, then it's also unlikely that I would find someone who could donate to me. Maybe my kids will be in the same boat, so I'm banking the cord blood for them just to be safe.

If this is the only reason you are banking, you may want to ask questions. Your assumption my not be true. Think about regular blood transfusions -- a person who is AB+ can only give to others who are AB+, but they can ACCEPT blood from *anyone*. I don't kniw the specific factors for cord blood, but it may be worth figuring out before you spend all of that money.

[sunshine608]

Nothing. I would like donate it but I doubt I will meet the criteria since I can't donate regular blood due to having lived in Europe during the Mad Cow Crisis of the 90's. I'll ask though

Thanks for the info runblondie26. I'm delivering @ Piedmont so I'll check it out.

[papie]

Nothing. I don't think our hospital has a donating option. If they do, we will donate though.

[purrbox]

Jan 27, 2014 9:00:47 GMT -5 FastHands said:

Jan 24, 2014 13:29:04 GMT -5 purrbox said:

I plan on banking the cord blood.

I'm on the "Be the Match" bone marrow registry, and I found out through them that I have something rare in my blood or bone marrow that makes me an unlikely candidate to donate. I figure if it's unlikely that I'll find a match to give marrow to, then it's also unlikely that I would find someone who could donate to me. Maybe my kids will be in the same boat, so I'm banking the cord blood for them just to be safe.

If this is the only reason you are banking, you may want to ask questions. Your assumption my not be true. Think about regular blood transfusions -- a person who is AB+ can only give to others who are AB+, but they can ACCEPT blood from *anyone*. I don't kniw the specific factors for cord blood, but it may be worth figuring out before you spend all of that money.

Yeah, I should probably look into that and see if I can get some more answers. Still, I'm leaning banking the cord blood. I feel like there has been so much progress in this area that I might really regret not doing it. I'm a sucker, lol.