Xpost: Pros and cons of cord blood/cord tissue banking

First time mom with a question about cord blood/cord tissue banking. If you've done it (or even if you haven't) what was your reasoning behind your decision? I'd like to hear the good and the bad.

If you did bank, was it just the cord blood or also the tissue?

Thanks!

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Re: Xpost: Pros and cons of cord blood/cord tissue banking

I chose not to, mainly because of this :

"But according to most experts, the odds that a child will ever use his or her own stored cord blood are small. According to a 2005 editorial in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, the chances are about one in 2,700.

Other estimates range widely. Advertising from one private cord blood bank puts the odds at 1 in 27. The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests it's more like 1 in 200,000. Indisputably, there are very few documented cases of a child receiving his or her own banked cord blood as treatment. The Institute of Medicine says that there may only have been as few as 14 total of these procedures ever performed. One reason is that the conditions cord blood stem cells could help treat just aren't that common. "The diseases in children that we can treat with their own cord blood stem cells are really rare," says Feig."

We had the hospital collect the cord blood and donated it to a public bank, where it had the most chance to save someone else's life.

I would research objective, independent sources (NOT advertising material or anything funded by the companies selling private cord blood banking) to come to a decision. Good luck!

Message edited 6/25/2015 11:10:10 PM.