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Nobody wants our cord blood? (Houston)
Hi, we decided we want to donate (not bank) our cord blood. Problem is that
I've called a coupla local places and nobody's called back, and our OB, though he supports the idea of donating it, doesn't know who takes it as a donation. Does anyone know of anyone in the Houston area who wants and will come and collect donated cord blood? I had thought this was pretty precious. Thanks. |
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Is it to do with some kind of law relating to cord blood and it's use? I
know that here in N.Z you can store your babies blood but it can only be used to the baby from which it came from. So I take that to mean you could not donate it. I think cord blood donation is a FANTASTIC idea! and I would do it if I was able. Best wishes Pip "Zen Cohen" wrote in message ... Hi, we decided we want to donate (not bank) our cord blood. Problem is that I've called a coupla local places and nobody's called back, and our OB, though he supports the idea of donating it, doesn't know who takes it as a donation. Does anyone know of anyone in the Houston area who wants and will come and collect donated cord blood? I had thought this was pretty precious. Thanks. |
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There seems to be a real limit on public cord blood banks. We have St.
Jude's Children's research hospital here in Memphis, and I would have thought that if ANYONE would have a cord blood bank, they would since it can be used in lieu of bone marrow transplants for kids with leukemia, but it looks like the closest is St. Louis-and I'm not going to be delivering in a hospital 8 hours away from home! Now, if I want to pay someone to bank it, well, that's no trouble-I just can't donate it. I hate to let them just throw it away, but I also can't see spending thousands of dollars to store it with no familal history of any of the conditions where it could be used. |
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i think the main prob is the funding to run this sort of donation program -
they need to be collected quickly and stored, i guess the expense is huge. i wouldnt think there would be many people that would not donate if asked and it was easy and no cost? christine "Zen Cohen" wrote in message ... Hi, we decided we want to donate (not bank) our cord blood. Problem is that I've called a coupla local places and nobody's called back, and our OB, though he supports the idea of donating it, doesn't know who takes it as a donation. Does anyone know of anyone in the Houston area who wants and will come and collect donated cord blood? I had thought this was pretty precious. Thanks. |
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"Zen Cohen" wrote in message ... Hi, we decided we want to donate (not bank) our cord blood. I just read that Illinois just passed a law for health care workers to offer to publicly bank cord blood to all women who have just given birth. the article was in parents magazine. they were urging others to contact their local congressmen to pass the law in more states.... public banking can happen if the lawmakers are forced to offer it! renee |
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Hi
We also wanted to donate our cord, but our doctor explained that the federal funding of stem cell research has been withdrawn & thus no one accepts donations. Storing & maintaining the cord is too expensive for any organization without federal funding. Unfortunately. I will never understand how a country where state & church are seperate is so influenced by the church. It is very unfortunate! I keep thinking of how much could be done with just a few cords. Zen Cohen wrote: Hi, we decided we want to donate (not bank) our cord blood. Problem is that I've called a coupla local places and nobody's called back, and our OB, though he supports the idea of donating it, doesn't know who takes it as a donation. Does anyone know of anyone in the Houston area who wants and will come and collect donated cord blood? I had thought this was pretty precious. Thanks. |
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zolw wrote:
Hi We also wanted to donate our cord, but our doctor explained that the federal funding of stem cell research has been withdrawn & thus no one accepts donations. Storing & maintaining the cord is too expensive for any organization without federal funding. Unfortunately. I will never understand how a country where state & church are seperate is so influenced by the church. It is very unfortunate! I keep thinking of how much could be done with just a few cords. Yikes! I hadn't heard that connection. What is even the logic from within that fundamentalist mind-set that leads to cord blood being a bad thing to do research on? Emily |
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"Emily" wrote in message news:t__fd.328265$D%.232087@attbi_s51... zolw wrote: Hi We also wanted to donate our cord, but our doctor explained that the federal funding of stem cell research has been withdrawn & thus no one accepts donations. Storing & maintaining the cord is too expensive for any organization without federal funding. Unfortunately. I will never understand how a country where state & church are seperate is so influenced by the church. It is very unfortunate! I keep thinking of how much could be done with just a few cords. Yikes! I hadn't heard that connection. What is even the logic from within that fundamentalist mind-set that leads to cord blood being a bad thing to do research on? I can see it-as I understand it, the ban was on funding any research except on the 22 existing stem cell lines, regardless of the genesis of the cells. While most of the controversy has come over using embryonic tissue (which ties into abortion objections), I can see where it is affecting cord blood as well. Which is really sad, because I think most parents WOULD be more than willing to donate their baby's cord blood for public use if they don't want to pay to privately bank it, provided things like early clamping is avoided, since once the cord is cut, it is of no further use to the baby, and won't hurt to donate it. Emily |
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zolw wrote:
Hi We also wanted to donate our cord, but our doctor explained that the federal funding of stem cell research has been withdrawn & thus no one accepts donations. Storing & maintaining the cord is too expensive for any organization without federal funding. Your doctor is almost certainly misinformed. Yes, there is a funding problem, but it has nothing to do with the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research outside of the approved lines. For one thing, publicly banked cord blood is typically NOT used for research anyway. There are *very* *very* few banks that provide cord blood for research, and they tell customers specifically that their cord blood will (or may) be used for research, not banked for a recipient's use someday. The problem is simply that it costs money to harvest, process, and store cord blood donations. Since the donors aren't paying the money, *someone* has to. There's a pretty short list of public banks, and they mostly accept donations from a limited geographical area (typically only from hospitals where they have staff on hand). There just isn't a public bank near Houston. The only public bank in Texas is in San Antonio, and it only accepts donations from local hospitals. There is only one bank that accepts cord blood donations from anywhere, anytime (http://www.cryo-intl.com/cordblooddonation.html) but you have to have all your paperwork in by the 35th week (some of their cord blood does to go research as opposed to being banked for future treatment). The Red Cross does some cord blood banking, but their budget for cord blood banking was slashed something like 75 percent last year. Best wishes, Ericka |
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"Ericka Kammerer" wrote in message ... zolw wrote: Hi We also wanted to donate our cord, but our doctor explained that the federal funding of stem cell research has been withdrawn & thus no one accepts donations. Storing & maintaining the cord is too expensive for any organization without federal funding. Your doctor is almost certainly misinformed. Yes, there is a funding problem, but it has nothing to do with the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research outside of the approved lines. For one thing, publicly banked cord blood is typically NOT used for research anyway. There are *very* *very* few banks that provide cord blood for research, and they tell customers specifically that their cord blood will (or may) be used for research, not banked for a recipient's use someday. The problem is simply that it costs money to harvest, process, and store cord blood donations. Since the donors aren't paying the money, *someone* has to. There's a pretty short list of public banks, and they mostly accept donations from a limited geographical area (typically only from hospitals where they have staff on hand). There just isn't a public bank near Houston. The only public bank in Texas is in San Antonio, and it only accepts donations from local hospitals. There is only one bank that accepts cord blood donations from anywhere, anytime (http://www.cryo-intl.com/cordblooddonation.html) but you have to have all your paperwork in by the 35th week (some of their cord blood does to go research as opposed to being banked for future treatment). The Red Cross does some cord blood banking, but their budget for cord blood banking was slashed something like 75 percent last year. Thanks for this informative response and to all others who responded. I called the number at the link above and they confirmed the cutoff is at the 35th week. Since we missed that, looks like we won't be donating. |
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