Has Anyone Saved Their Baby's Cord Blood? Posted: 04-11-06 10:43am
My wife is pregnant and we saw some
brochures in the dr's office. But she
said the Dr. Was not much help with
answers...Anyone out there do this? What
should we be looking for or asking
companies that do this?
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Keithmon
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Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 5 Location: Texas
Posted: 02-01-07 16:38pm
I realize that your question has not been
answered for months and now it is probably
way too late because your baby has
probably already been born by now.
Anyway... Here is what my experience is
with cord blood.
With my first son I told the nurse in the
delivery room that we wanted to collect
the cord blood. She responded with "oh.
You want to do that" in a very negative
tone. I think she just really didn't
want to do the extra work to collect the
blood. She then left the room and came
back with a cord blood collection kit.
They took the cord blood and sent it to
cardinal glennon hospital in st. Louis
(st. Louis is where my kid was born).
This was donated to their research program
at cardinal glennon. I would have liked
to have it stored and frozen for the
future but I never could get all the
information on how to do this.
With my second son, he was premature by 5
weeks. Due to the complication that the
premature birth caused, it was not an
option to collect the cord blood because
all hands were on the baby and no one
could care less about the cord blood.
Sounds understandable to me!
So, your hospital may have cord blood
collection kits on the delivery room
floor. They may not. You could
actually go to the delivery floor of the
hospital and ask one of the nurses if they
stock cord blood collection kits and how
to get them. I bet that would be your
best source of information as they are the
actuall ones that do the collection.
Hope this helps.
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Lilly Ivy
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Posted: 08-30-07 13:54pm
Again, this is a little late for you, but
I have looked it up, they have called me
AND I have gotten a brochure. What I'm
planning is not through the hospital, it
is through ViaCord (you may have seen the
comercial). And for the collection and
storage for the first year, it is about
$2,100. Someone from there comes and
collects it, again, the hospital has
nothing to do with it. Every year you have
it stored, it is $125.