Placenta & umbilical cord banking
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We’re doing cord blood banking. My husband works for a cancer institute and feels like there’s a lot of new trials coming out that could be helpful. If your baby has cancer or another condition later in life, the cord blood basically needs to be discarded because the cancer potential exists in those stem cells. But, if your baby is healthy and you need treatment or a sibling needs treatment, then cord blood baby could help. It is a long shot, but if you can afford it, it’s not going to hurt anything. Our doctor told us to use the money for a college fund unless we had enough money to blow basically.
@Jennifer which company did you use?
We did cord blood banking due to my husband having cancer when he was a child. Yes… it’s kinda pricey but I think it’s worth it with my son having a higher chance of having cancer. I think as long as you do your full research it’s very very very worth it. I think it’s also great because if you do it for your first baby and can’t/wont for your second for whatever reason, you can use that cord blood from your first child as some treatment!
@Kiley which company did you use?
CBR. Their website is https://www.cordblood.com
Our hospital uses Cord Blood Registry: https://www.cordblood.com
CBR just called me…. I’ve signed up and filled my cart like 5 times and not checked out. So, they called and gave me a discount! Just wanted to let this group know in case that works for someone else.
@Jennifer they give out discounts like CRAZY!
They're not the same. With the placenta, you can choose to eat it or get it processed into capsules. I think you mean cord blood banking? And that, in my opinion, is a $cam. It cost a ton of money and whatever they say it can potentially help with later on in your kids life.. is not as important as the baby receiving their full amount of blood from the placenta. Your babies blood filters from them to the placenta constantly in the womb, and so when they're born, the placenta has around 1/3 of your babies blood still in it. And baby needs that blood back to be at their optimal condition. That's where "delayed cord clamping" comes in... which at a hospital, they wait like 60 seconds max before clamping and cutting. Which isn't enough time to allow all of their blood to transfer. The wait for white phrase comes from waiting until the umbilical cord is white, limp and cold before clamping and cutting, ensuring baby has all of their blood.