private cord blood collection

[DashCruz]

I am curious what your experience is: what percent of deliveries include collection of cord blood for private (not public) storage?

[klone, MSN, RN]

Not very many at all. 1-5%?

[linnaete, ASN, BSN, MSN]

Ditto. We have 150-200 deliveries a month and I'm lucky if I see one or two per month.

[Best_Name_Ever]

Not many. Been in L&D for 2 years, have only saw it done 2 times. We do about 2500 deliveries a year.

[klone, MSN, RN]

And I've seen even fewer for public storage/donation. I think I've seen one in all the years of L&D I've been in (7). Public donation requires there to be a local facility that is doing research, which requires a local teaching hospital that is doing cord blood research. Whereas, private banking can be done anywhere, because UPS/FedEx will pick up and ship.

[dariah]

When I worked at a large teaching hospital in New York City, almost 50% of patients brought private cord blood kits and almost everyone else participated in the public bank if it was open.

Now that I've moved to a small hospital in the Midwest, I've seen exactly zero.

[biggolp]

Not an L & D Nurse, just my own experience...

I have donated cord blood to a public bank once because I thought that it's an easy way of helping someone and paying it forward.

However, I did not choose to do it again with subsequent births because I became more educated and I now request delayed cord clamping for my children. That is not possible to do if you want to store or donate the cord blood.

At this point, I feel like I want to keep all the cord blood possible going in to my own newborn.

[DashCruz]

Dariah, 50% is amazing plus all the public donations. What hospital was that?