cord blood

nybride10 · June 2011

anyone do this when their baby was born? if you don't mind sharing.. how much a month does it cost you?

cutekate · June 2011

I think if I remember reading the phamplet correctly it's about 5k and something like $100 a month but these are guesses Bc I'm in court

ELF4321 · June 2011

I did some research last year about it but don't remember any specific costs. You might want to look at this article from parents magazine discussing the costs v. possible benefits. It's pretty interesting.

http://www.parents.com/pregnancy/my-baby/cord-blood-banking/the-cord-blood-controversy/?page=1

lawyer707 · June 2011

I've been tossing around donating our cord blood. Not sure if we are doing it though as I believe my OB charges $300 to collect it. I haven't yet asked if she waives it for donation as some OBs do.

LuckEinLuv · June 2011

We wanted to donate, but there was nowhere in NY that would take it at the time.

JennyNel · June 2011

I felt very strongly about wanting to do this given my family's history of cancer. I consider it like any other insurance policy you have in life and you hope to god you never need to use it, but we wanted to have it and since we were able to swing the $ we did it.

We used Cryo-Cell off of a friend's referral. The upfront cost was $1,400 (I had a coupon) and the storage is $125 a year...so about $10.50/month if you break it down - although you pay it once a year. Cryo-Cell also reimbursed me my Dr's fee for collecting the sample, which was about $150. Even though this was 3 years ago I just checked their site and their prices haven't changed.

Bridezilla in Training · June 2011

I did Cord Blood Registry. I got a coupon online for opening a registry so people can donate (no one did, but it doesn't matter. I would never ask anyone to donate to it!). The total for the first year including storage, collection, etc. was around $1900. I did a payment plan so I pay about $140 a month (forgive my math, i might be off). Every year you just pay a $125 storage fee.

lisa5ny · June 2011

There is some info out there that explains what Core Blood can be used for if needed...what illnesses it will help. Most of them are hereditary. DH and I looked over the list, and none of the Illnesses that were listed are in either of our families histories, so the odds of our children needing it are pretty low. That, combined with the cost was why we decided not to do it.

We also tried to donate it, but our OB wouldn't take it either without a huge collecting fee. Such a shame.

mazafratz@yahoo.com · June 2011

I donated through Cryobanks International (http://www.lifeforcecryobanks.com/enroll/donating/)

They send you a kit in the mail to take to any hospital.

For donation it was totally free- the hospital did not charge because it was a donation.

I've got a PhD in Molecular Biology and actually work as a scientist doing stem cell research. While the private banks advertise making it seem like a miracle cure- there are not many illnesses that cord blood stem cells can treat. The most common need for a stem cells is post-raditiona/chemo for treating blood cancers (like leukemia, etc.) and in that case, you can't give a patient back his/her own cells, because those would harbor the same cancer-causing mutations.

Also, there's only a 15% chance that siblings would be suitable donors for one another. So that's not a sure thing anyway.

Additionally, not every cord blood sample collected is suitable for use. Do the private banks give your money back if your doctor isn't able to collect enough or it's of insufficient quality? Not as far as I know.

If everyone donated to a public cord blood bank. there would be no need for private storage- just like the American Red Cross does for regular blood.

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