It's expensive and from what I learned from my appointment with a representative at the hospital last year they can't guarantee it'll be there if you need is say another family has a baby with leukemia and they need cord blood they can use yours
I believe it is where you save the blood from the ambilical cord for the future if your child needs blood for any reason they have it... but I'm not 100% sure on that.
They save your baby blood cells from the umbilical cord and in the future they have health issues like leukemia they use that for a cure. But it's not just leukemia there's more diseases
I think you have an option to place it in private or a public bank. But yeah heard its its expensive.
Idk? Either way I couldn't afford it
I really want to do it but its unfortunately too expensive. Where i live they wantva deposit of 3,000$ and every year after that they want 750$ just to keep it for the next year. If i was made out of gold i would! But im not and.....i mean they never did it before and they really cant tell me 100% that my child will be cured n saved if they make a cure with his blood cells. So because of how expensive it is im taking a chance and praying really hard that nothing bad will ever happen and putting faith in the drs to help my child if something does ever happen.
I was gonna do it but it costs 2000 up front plus a fee yearly for them to hold it.
It is very expensive if you already know your child would be at high risk for a life treatening disease then i would consider it otherwise i don't think you'll need it
I want to do it as well, but too expensive. I'm going to donate it though. That way even if I cannot store it because of costs, it will be available to the public. Hopefully others will choose to do this as well.