Cord banking

[nomnom]

Has anyone done this for their kid(s)? Thoughts?

[MamaMolly]

We didn't for Lula because she came at 36 weeks and we didn't have a good enough reason to. In the interim between her and Dolly, my cousin was diagnosed with lukemia, so we decided to bank Dolly's.

[Katigre]

No, we let our babies keep their cord blood and dont clamp it until it stops pulsing.

[SnuggleBuggles]

No, we let our babies keep their cord blood and dont clamp it until it stops pulsing.

Same here. I was compelled by that. Also, ds1 is 12 and it was a really new idea. By the time we had ds2, we could have but I stuck with our original plan.

[lhafer]

I donated cord blood with both if mine, but I didn't bank any.

[pinkmomagain]

We banked our last child's cord blood. Our oldest has a chronic illness. We did it just in case.

[Green_Tea]

Both OBs that delivered me felt that the cord blood banks are somewhat of a scam, but believed in donating (or letting the babies have it by delaying clamping.) My last baby was born in 2006, though, so things may have changed.

[Staraglimmer]

We banked both of our DDs'.

[acmom]

Yes, we banked both our kids as we were lucky that had the means to pay for it and I didn't want the feeling of "what it" in a situation where it possibly could have helped. We do have a serious childhood illness in the family too so I'm sure that played into our thinking.

[SASM]

We did not bank the cord blood. I felt strongly that I either wanted to donate all 3 towards either the cord blood/bone marrow registry or for research. DD2's cord blood was donated to Johns Hopkins for pediatric hematology oncology research.