These companies who want the parents to pay to store their baby's cord blood
are just marketeers. I am sure there has not been any research done on the
benefits to the baby of keeping the blood vs storing it: the storage hasn't
been around long enough for them to know. It is a big marketing campaign here
in the US, some companies charfging $1,000 to $2,000 US per year to store it.
Then there is the donated cord blood for stem cell research which is another
whole can of worms (this one I actually don't have that much of a problem
with). And the blood can be collected after the cord has stopped pulsing,
depending on the birth, for most babies it would be blood they wouldn't be
getting anyway (which is another interesting topic). Take care, marilyn
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