Umbilical cord blood

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What is the churches teaching on saving umbilical cord blood? and if it is ok, what blood banks do you recommend?
 
Yes, it is perfectly fine, and I have no idea as to the second part of your question.
 
the cord is part of your body, it is just a part that falls off. there is nothing wrong with keeping the cord blood. in fact it is admirable because by saving cord blood, you make more ethically acceptable stem cells available for yourself and science if you donate it.
 
I am pregnant and visit a lot of pregnancy sites, and Viacord is the one I see most often advertised, as another poster mentioned.

I just listened to an program on EWTN radio last week discussing a lot of life issues, this being one of them.

What I remember him saying is that there really isn’t enough scientific knowledge of how to use the cord blood. And no one knows how long the cord blood will remain usable. It isn’t regulated by any government agencies (since it’s kind of an unknown), so who knows what standards these companies keep? I’ve decided not to do it myself.

But I don’t know that anything is “wrong” with it.
 
As far as donating it? My only concern is what is it going to be used for. If someone is going to carry out cloning experiments on it, no way.

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I just listened to an program on EWTN radio last week discussing a lot of life issues, this being one of them.

What I remember him saying is that there really isn’t enough scientific knowledge of how to use the cord blood. And no one knows how long the cord blood will remain usable. It isn’t regulated by any government agencies (since it’s kind of an unknown), so who knows what standards these companies keep? I’ve decided not to do it myself.
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We process cord blood in the lab where I work. We’re conducting a large-scale population study on allergies and asthma in children from birth and the cord blood is how we establish baseline for these children. We extract and test plasma, DNA, RNA, and other white blood cell components.

Of course this is a program where the mothers have to sign an informed consent form, and it is through a major health care system so we do have regulations on privacy, processing, and experimental design.
 
We have privately banked the cord blood for all of our 3 children with www.cryo-cell.com.

It is an unknown, but we felt the cost was worth the possible benefit to our children, like an insurance policy.
 
Wouldn’t it be better to donate it for free (which then can be used by anyone who is in need of it), rather than store it privately for thousands of dollars?
 
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Wouldn’t it be better to donate it for free (which then can be used by anyone who is in need of it), rather than store it privately for thousands of dollars?
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First- the same could be said for their college funds 😉 . Or their health insurance, or life insurance of any form. I want the stem cells to be there if my child needs them.

Also- when we started with my daughter 5 years ago, there was no option to donate anywhere near us. I wanted to be sure that the stem cells would not be used for any other purpose (any scientific experiments for example). Also- the stem cells harvested belong to each child, and it is their choice what to do with them, should they ever decide that they want to move them to a public donation center, they will have that option. And lastly- it was not thousands of dollars for us, it was a few hundred.
 
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