My wife and I are having are first baby in about 6 weeks, were contemplating whether or not to do this “Cord Blood Registry” for $1800 bucks, then it’s $120 a year where they store your baby’s embilical cord, supposedly it could save your baby’s life or another member of your familiy’s life….anybody know anything about this?
Here is the deal. We got the first child this Cord (embellical cord) Blood Registry kit. Basically, it freezes the childs embelical cord blood with the stem cells…incase she would need some organ later in life she could have these stem cells formed into whatever. So…my wife wants this for the second child as well…They told her [...]
I heard some pretty outrageous numbers has anyone done this or has looked into it I haven’t had a chance to yet..So I thought I would start by asking y’all. Yeah I was hearing 10 to 20k so I’m glad to hear its so cheap. Thanks everyone.
Has anyone taken this into consideration? Do you know someone who did it? I am researching more about it. [url]http://pediatrics.about.com/od/agesandstages/i/cord_blood_bank.htm[/url] Am sorry.. here is the link http://pediatrics.about.com/od/agesandstages/i/cord_blood_bank.htm
My hospital gives me the option of donating cord blood. This is apparently different from cord blood banking since the cord blood can be used by anyone and it is free. I had my daughter’s cord blood donated at her birth (thought, why not?) And am planning to donate my son’s cord blood at his birth. Does [...]
