Before we had Cameron we contemplated going with a cord-blood banking program. From all the commercials we saw it seemed like a no-brainer. We felt good that we were about to signup with viacord so that his cord blood would be there if any of us needed it. Needless to say we were a bit taken back with the reactions we got from medical professionals. They didn't seem as excited or "into it" as we thought they would be. The general consenus was basically, "we're not strongly for or against you storing your babies' cord blood but if you want to do it we would recommend you use a public cord blood bank instead of a private one." What? There's a difference? Apparently there is, Viacord and similar companies are private company that provide the storage for a fee and a pretty hefty one at that ( see here) The problem with public banks is that there aren't enough of them. Some hospitals use a public company some don't. Plug your bank's name and "cord blood bank" (or similar variations)into www.google.com and see what you find. Or I guess you could just call the hospital itself. Man it must be getting late, lol :)
The article: Transplanting Hope
Sunday, April 03, 2005
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