Cord blood banking

[Harveyrabbit76]

Morning

Wondered if anyone had any experience or thoughts on cord blood banking? If you have done it, did you go private or public? Currently looking into Virgin Health which donate 80% of it but slightly confused how it all works. Thanks!

I don't know about how it works, but I have read of you bank the cord blood then you won't be able to have optimal cord clamping and your baby won't receive all the blood that it could. In my opinion I'd rather my baby have all the blood it needs as I believe this will benefit them the most.

As per the previous poster. Cord blood belongs to the baby and optimal cord clamping, which is standard practice in hospitals now will reduce how much blood can be retrieved.

Standard practice for optimal cord clamping is a delay of at least 1mins before clamping, but in reality the best time to clamp is after the cord stops pulsating- which means all the blood is returned to baby. None at all therefore will be retrievable.

Oh, thank you, that's interesting. I didn't know it was one or the other but it obviously makes sense! That has really cleared it up for me to one less decision to make!