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wrote in message om... Hi, anyone have any opinion on cord blood banking? I asked my ob about it and he said as me and my DH are slightly different backgrounds (I am of general caucasian background, he is of jewish descent from eastern europe) that we should consider private cord blood banking since it might be a little harder for us to find a match should we need one. Is anyone doing this? What's the general concensus on cord blood banking? My DH and I are also of different backgrounds (I am of European descent, and DH is Palestinian) and my understanding is the same as yours; it will be harder to find a match for our son in a public bank, should we ever need cord blood for any reason. None-the-less, we chose not to for reasons similar to the ones Larry cited; it is expensive, it is very unlikely that you will ever need to use the blood, and we really wanted to delay clamping the cord, so our son would have the (potential) benefits of the cord blood. We considered donating the cord blood, but from what we understood, this would preclude delayed clamping. We did talk to my husband's neurologist about it ahead of time (funny person to talk to, I know, but he is also a researcher who works with stem cells and cord blood). He felt that currently there are not a lot of applications for the cord blood, but there should be in the future. He was also skeptical of how long the cells could be preserved; if we need them ten, twenty years from now, they might not even be viable anymore. So, I don't think there is a general concensus at all; it just has to be a personal decision. -Michelle |
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cord blood banking?
we really wanted to delay clamping
the cord, so our son would have the (potential) benefits of the cord blood. Here's an old post of mine about what I was told: "before my son was born, I researched whether any cord blood could be donated if there was a delay in cord clamping and cutting. I wrote to a cord blood research project in Chicago (sorry I don't remember more of the details), and the doctor in charge said this comes up *all the time* and they can nearly always get enough even if they wait until the placenta is delivered. The cord blood sample needed is actually relatively small. They can get some out of the vessels on the placenta if needed. This is blood that would *not* necessarily ever have got to the baby -- just a bit extra." I expect, like a lot of things, it depends a bit on how cooperative the people at the birth are. I don't have any personal experience, as at my son's birth the whole cord blood donation thing (we were going to donate it for research) went by the board, as we totally forgot to call the person who was going to collect it in time. --Helen |
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