Banking Cord Blood
A pregnant mom has so many decisions to make. Like what foods will she choose to eat to give her baby the best nutrition, or will it be a completely natural birth or will she need some medication, or will she breastfeed?
On top of those few choices pregnant moms and dads have many other decisions to make along the way. One interesting choice that has come up in more recent years is that of storing the Umbilical Cord’s Blood at a Blood Bank. This is costly and really it doesn’t guarantee a thing so it’s hard for some families to decide if they can or will do it.
There’s an interesting discussion going on over at Moms Talk Forum that I promoted this post, have a look here: Umbilical Cord Blood Banking: Has anyone done this?
Filed under: Parenting Helps on February 24th, 2007
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