Since I began writing about my experience with CReATe Cord Blood Bank, I've had many friends contact me to ask about the cord blood banking process and to get my thoughts on whether or not they should look into banking their own babies' cord blood. Though I'm by no means an expert, nor am I in the position to tell anyone what they should do when it comes to making this very personal decision, I can speak from my own experience having just given birth to my second daughter two months ago.
I woke up a few weeks ago to an email from Baby Centre telling me that I was 30 weeks pregnant. I could hardly believe it. While I’ve certainly been aware of my expanding belly—unlike my first pregnancy, I’ve been much less focused on tracking the weeks and milestones this time around.
But 30 weeks could not be ignored. My daughter was born at 38 weeks. That’s just 8 weeks from now. Or two months. Or 56 days.
When I was pregnant with my daughter, a cousin wrote us to say that she’d banked her first son’s umbilical cord blood and was planning to do the same with her second. The bank she used offered a ‘friends and family’ rate, so she wanted to pass the information on to us.
This was the first I’d heard of cord blood banking (though I was extremely informed—if not over-informed—on most things labour, delivery, and new baby).
