Cord Blood

What is cord blood? Should we store Baby Louisa's cord blood when she's born? We know that the stem cells from cord blood can help save lifes, but there are still many things about cord blood (and cord blood banking) that we don't really know. There are many brochures we can read up on, but that's it...the info is just....a lot. Have to eliminate the "noise" from the real info.

Then there's also info about which cord blood bank to store it, should we decide to store. In Singapore, there are two private cord blood bank (CordLIfe and StemCord) and only one public cord blood bank (Singapore Cord Blood Bank). We have quite a few questions of our own...Why should we store Baby Louisa's cord blood? Do we have other alternatives? (we can choose to donate the cord blood, if we don't store it). How much would it cost us? What are the differences between storing in a private and a public cord blood bank? Which private cord blood bank to go for? There are just so much to think about and consider (finances included).

If we choose not to store or donate Baby Louisa's cord blood, it would be thrown away. That would be a waste, afterall, the cord blood can potentially save lives. We could use the Baby Bonus to pay for the annual storage fees. That would help a lot...

To store or to donate...that is the question.