https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:59:51 +0000 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:43:06 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.05 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=24982 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24982&PID=628709&title=stem-cell#628709 Author: TraceyA
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Posted: 04 March 2009 at 7:43pm

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.]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:43:06 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24982&PID=628709&title=stem-cell#628709 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24982&PID=628708&title=stem-cell#628708 Author: mummyofprinces
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Posted: 04 March 2009 at 7:41pm

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.]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:41:42 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24982&PID=628708&title=stem-cell#628708 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24982&PID=628692&title=stem-cell#628692 Author: lilfatty
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Posted: 04 March 2009 at 7:20pm

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) ]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:20:47 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24982&PID=628692&title=stem-cell#628692 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24982&PID=628653&title=stem-cell#628653 Author: TysMummy
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Posted: 04 March 2009 at 6:54pm

is anyone doing this and what are your thoughts? never did it with the first but was considering it with 2nd]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:54:35 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=24982&PID=628653&title=stem-cell#628653