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Goobster
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
I vote other....I was all set to but then unfortunately they could not do it, not enough blood in the cord.
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aimerliny
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
Posted by maybeamommy
We didn't.
We wanted to donate, but that was not an option at our hospital!
Same here.
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| Posted 7/8/10 11:46 AM |
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SweetTooth
I'm a tired mommy!
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
No. We wanted to - we actually had it collected and picked up, but when it got to the facility they called and told us there wasn't enough.
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| Posted 7/8/10 11:59 AM |
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EricaAlt
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
yes we did
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| Posted 7/8/10 12:04 PM |
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jam11308
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
Yes, we did with ds & we plan to again with any future children (should we be so blessed) 
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nicknmb
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
we did not.....sort of came to the conclusion that these companies are charging an insane amount of money and preying on the worst fears of new parents....DH and I agreed that we were willing to take the "what if" chance
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| Posted 7/8/10 12:19 PM |
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munchkinbugs
My little loves!
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Lisa
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
We didn't for DD.
We did for DS. Only because DH's union reimburses us for it now.
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| Posted 7/8/10 12:26 PM |
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LuckySV
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
I wanted to donate it but I delivered on a Sat and at my hospital they didn't do weekend pick-ups.
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| Posted 7/8/10 12:41 PM |
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sunflowerjesss
Mommy to 3!
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Jesss, duh.
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
No we didn't. We didn't plan to. And we won't with any future children.
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| Posted 7/8/10 12:43 PM |
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mommy2bella
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
I wanted to....it was just too much money at the time.
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| Posted 7/8/10 12:43 PM |
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Carolyn
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
We didn't. I had signed up to donate, but they weren't able to collect enough from either baby.
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Alli06
Baby #3 coming this June
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
NO
Message edited 7/8/2010 3:44:56 PM.
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Alli06
Baby #3 coming this June
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
Posted by nicknmb
we did not.....sort of came to the conclusion that these companies are charging an insane amount of money and preying on the worst fears of new parents....DH and I agreed that we were willing to take the "what if" chance
That is exactly how we felt. Neither of us had a family history to be concerned with so we took our chances.
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Janice
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
Posted by Alli06
Posted by nicknmb
we did not.....sort of came to the conclusion that these companies are charging an insane amount of money and preying on the worst fears of new parents....DH and I agreed that we were willing to take the "what if" chance
That is exactly how we felt. Neither of us had a family history to be concerned with so we took our chances.
exactly what my ped said. we did not bank it.
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| Posted 7/8/10 3:49 PM |
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Dani922
Here's to new beginnings
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
Nope
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| Posted 7/8/10 5:55 PM |
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MrsRivera
2 under 2...whew!!
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
Yes, we did...for both of our children.
And for DS, we also banked cord tissue, which is currently in Stage 4 trials for treating commonplace ailments like heart disease, diabetes, etc.
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| Posted 7/8/10 6:01 PM |
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nicrae
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
We did for DD but not for DS. With him we just kinda dropped the ball.
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jgl
Love my little boys!!!
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
No because I researched it and found there to not be that many uses for the cord blood yet and that it is rare that my own child would even benefit from it if they did need it, they most likely would have to get it from a public bank
I also could not afford do spend that kind of money
Donating is what the AAP recommends, they do not recommend private banking. i wasnt able to donate it. I
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
Posted by MrsRivera
Yes, we did...for both of our children.
And for DS, we also banked cord tissue, which is currently in Stage 4 trials for treating commonplace ailments like heart disease, diabetes, etc.
That's great. Was this recent? I don't think I had the option to bank anything except cord blood but I realize that the tissue also has stem cells.
It's been a while but when we banked, the progress for using cord blood to treat diabetes looked very promising. There was also some progress on a study to replicate stem cells but you still need to have them in order to replicate them.
I am not sure if we would have banked if my DH was not diabetic but I did my research. I am aware that the cord blood companies profit tremendously I would have felt that it was totally unfair to him if we did not look into this and then decide to do it.
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| Posted 7/8/10 7:11 PM |
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Cookiegobbler
My little love bugs!!
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
I did for DD.... did NOT for DS ONLY because we couldn't due to the fact that he was born in the car... we asked, but it was not possible.
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ReiRei13
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
Posted by Cookiegobbler
did NOT for DS ONLY because we couldn't due to the fact that he was born in the car...QUOTE]
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| Posted 7/8/10 9:41 PM |
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HLT407
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
nope
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4PsInaPod
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
nope.
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Disneygirl
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
I am probably a very rare minority in that I banked DD#1 but chose not to bank DD#2. At the time of DD#1's birth I had just loss my father to brain cancer and I think I let my emotions make the decision (My SIL had my niece 9mths earlier and had done the same thing hoping to help my dad who was alive at the time ) When I got pg with DD#2 I decided to do the research and was not convinced with what they were selling me this time around. I did start pursing donation but the only company I found that donates also banks cord blood and when I inquired about donation they seemed to want to push you into banking it. I was irritated so I dropped the whole thing. I do regret not donating though.
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AnnBrunoXO
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Re: Did you bank your child's cord blood ?
No.
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