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Topic: stem cell
Posted By: TysMummy
Subject: stem cell
Date Posted: 04 March 2009 at 6:54pm
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Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 04 March 2009 at 7:20pm
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I think if you have the spare $$ .. its a worthwhile "just in case" investment.
(Although I am presuming you are talking about banking the stem cells in the cord bank....your post was a tad brief) ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: mummyofprinces
Date Posted: 04 March 2009 at 7:41pm
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If you are talking about storing the cord blood then we totally would do it... if we had a spare $5000 lying around.
Its a horrible thing to say we cant afford to invest in the health of our child but its a lot of money and you have fork out half of that regardless of whether they can get any blood or not! Its a lot of money for a maybe.... If we won lotto then we would definately. -------------   
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Posted By: TraceyA
Date Posted: 04 March 2009 at 7:43pm
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DH and I've been thinking on this one of a lot recently. If you have a family history of late onset cancer (leukemia/bone marrow) it could be worth it, or if your child acquires cerebral palsy then again it could be worth it. However, to have the cerebral palsy treatment at present you have to go to the US and it's really really expensive ($40k).
Stem cell research is still a new area of science, one of my dearest friends is a stem cell researcher and so we drilled her a little while she was here, we were expecting to get a big rave on how wonderful it was and how we should definitely take the opportunity, we didn't get that from her though. We have decided now, that it isn't going to be worth it in the end and we would rather leave the cord un-clamped after birth until it stops pulsing and allow our baby to get the added benefits that comes with that. It was a hard decision for us to make as DH's grandmother died of leukemia a year before I met him and his mother is currently in remission for bone marrow cancer and all my mum's family have alzheimers. From what we have read, it's actually better for your child to get stem cells from a matching donor for the cancer treatments, especially if it's childhood cancer. I'd recommend doing some research on your own, looking at the pro's and con's and also look at your family histories. It's a tough decision to make. ------------- TTC #2 |