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marianne13
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cord blood banking
Hi,
If anyone chose a private company for cord blood banking, can you share which one and why? Also, when do you sign up? I'm currently 34 weeks and am scared that it's too late.
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| Posted 3/9/17 10:00 AM |
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pumpkinmom
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Re: cord blood banking
It's not too late. Once I filled out the paperwork, it took a couple of days to get my kit.
I used Lifebank for my 3 children. I do all the storage options they offer. With my first two, that was the cord blood, placenta blood, and placenta tissue. Now, they added something new that I can't recall all the details, but I did that for my third. I like that Lifebank can collect the placenta blood if you choose that option. If you collect and store everything they offer it's quite a bit more expensive than saving the cord blood and placenta blood.
With my youngest child, I was considering Viacord. If I were only doing the basic cord blood collection, I might have picked viacord because they have more compartments in the blood bag. It seems like that might be good for some of the future possible uses.
I used this website to look at different companies. I'm not sure if it's always up to date, but it was useful.
https://parentsguidecordblood.org/en
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| Posted 3/9/17 10:29 AM |
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star444
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Member since 3/15 353 total posts
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Re: cord blood banking
Posted by pumpkinmom
It's not too late. Once I filled out the paperwork, it took a couple of days to get my kit.
I used Lifebank for my 3 children. I do all the storage options they offer. With my first two, that was the cord blood, placenta blood, and placenta tissue. Now, they added something new that I can't recall all the details, but I did that for my third. I like that Lifebank can collect the placenta blood if you choose that option. If you collect and store everything they offer it's quite a bit more expensive than saving the cord blood and placenta blood.
With my youngest child, I was considering Viacord. If I were only doing the basic cord blood collection, I might have picked viacord because they have more compartments in the blood bag. It seems like that might be good for some of the future possible uses.
I used this website to look at different companies. I'm not sure if it's always up to date, but it was useful.
https://parentsguidecordblood.org/en
I also used Lifebank, but only did the cord blood.
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| Posted 3/9/17 11:21 AM |
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drpepper318
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Re: cord blood banking
I just signed up the other day for my next baby and I'm 37 weeks. They overnight fed ex the kit to you so I got it in less than 24 hours. Also upgraded to Lifetime storage (cord blood only) for my older kids also.
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| Posted 3/9/17 5:27 PM |
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