Parents-Did you bank your baby's cord blood?

@zuri25 (2125)
United States
November 5, 2006 7:51pm CST
Cord blood banking is a popular trend in parenting these days. Did you participate?
3 responses
RitaS8
@RitaS8 (384)
• United States
6 Nov 06
No. I would have been happy to donate it if the option had been available to me. In Indiana the option was not there.
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zuri25
@zuri25 (2125)
• United States
6 Nov 06
The option was there for me, but the opportunity was not because it's expensive. I looked into it and I really wanted to do it, but I simply couldnt afford it.
astone83
@astone83 (129)
• United States
6 Nov 06
I am also in Indiana. I didn't realize that it wasn't available here, but I wouldn't have done it anyway because of the cost.
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Amanda_NZ
@Amanda_NZ (125)
• Lexington, North Carolina
22 Nov 06
Very intriguing topic you have started. I have never heard of 'baby cord banking' I am going to be doing a search to find more about this although my two children are now adults it still does not hurt me to keep learning about such things.
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zuri25
@zuri25 (2125)
• United States
22 Nov 06
This is true. As I have understood it, cord blood banking is essentially storing your child's umbilical cord blood if the child should ever need blood for any reason in the future. It can sometimes be used by other family members with the a matching blood type as your child. The problem is that it is expensive. I'm thrilled that I was able to bring this life saving procedure to your attention. Thanks for responding!
SViswan
@SViswan (12051)
• India
22 Nov 06
babies - child
I would have loved to and we did consider the option for our second child. But it's very expensive here in India and we decided that we couldn't afford to do it:(
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zuri25
@zuri25 (2125)
• United States
22 Nov 06
Same here. I really wanted to do that, but here in the states it is very expensive as well. We couldn't afford it either. Thanks for replying.