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bapayne
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Cord Blood Banking
Posted: 01-25-05 14:21pm
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Has anyone done this? I'm interested in
doing this for my firstborn but am curious
as to what you guys think.
Tia!
Beth
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lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 01-25-05 14:37pm
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I was looking into it also but it's a lil
expensive.
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l2at24
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Posted: 01-25-05 14:41pm
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It is expensive. If you have the money
go for it. If you don't have the money I
wouldn't do any crazy financing for it.
Unless baby or other family are at high
risk for diseases etc that cord blood
would help with.
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LeXiee
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Posted: 01-25-05 15:17pm
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Euhhh.. What are you guys talking about?
I feel like this may be a blonde moment
for me...
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lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 01-25-05 15:26pm
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| lexiee
wrote: | | euhhh.. What are you guys
talking about? I feel like this may be
a blonde moment for
me... |
you can put your baby's umbilical cord in
a blood bank for any future "problems,
stem cells etc... It's quite expensive.
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LeXiee
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Posted: 01-25-05 15:29pm
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Ahhh I didn't know that. You would think
they would do it automatically....
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karagiozi
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Posted: 04-12-06 12:20pm
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I've seen the cost to having my baby's
cord blood saved, and it shocked me too!
I'll be applying for a new credit card
with 0% apr (hopefully for a year) and the
wife and I won't go to starbucks as often
and a few less dinners, out at a
restaraunt, a month should do the trick
and pay for it.
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Lalee
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Posted: 04-12-06 17:59pm
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Maybe I heard wrong, but, can't you do
public banking... I guess where it's used
for anyone who needs it.. Maybe there's a
waiting list of something. I don't really
know. Lol. Anyway, I heard it's the
private banking that's expensive.... And
that if you don't need it after a certian
amount of time, it's no good anymore
anyway.
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karagiozi
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Posted: 04-13-06 14:32pm
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I used to donate my blood..To the red
cross, until I found out that the ceo
makes over $200 grand a year off of free
blood.
I thought about donating the cord blood,
until I found out the bank can use it to
sell it to research or sell it to someone
who needs it. You give it for free, you
do not recieve it for free. - sucks
huh?
I found out that in a public bank, over
50% of their stock gets tossed
anyway...This one in particular does not
freeze the blood.
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pixma
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Why Is It Expensive?????
Posted: 04-14-06 07:34am
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Why is it expensive?????
Although expensive or not I will be doing
just that if I ever have babies!!
My father has multiple mialoma and having
a stem cell transplant is what has kept
him around for a few more years and I am
forever grateful!!!
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Lalee
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Posted: 04-14-06 11:11am
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That's fantastic, but not everybody can
afford it. No matter how badly you want
to do it, money doesn't fall from the sky.
And people who have no family history of
problems and who have no threats of
problems for their children are most
likely not going to go into debt trying to
bank cord blood.
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suzanne Kirch
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Posted: 06-09-06 21:44pm
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I want to bank too – but it is very
expensive. I found a very cheap cord
blood banking lab located in purchase ny.
Honestly, at first I was weary of them
because they are basically half the price
of the other more popular labs . . .
But after I called and talked to them and
did other research I think I have decided
to use them for sure. They are local to
the ny area but they will store from other
parts of the us for additional shipping
fees. . . But it still comes out much
cheaper. They are affiliated with new
york blood center. . Which is one of the
oldest cord blood lab centers around.
They are also licensed by the ny
department of health. They are called
maze cord blood. Has anyone else heard
of them?
Suzanne
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