Hi mothers and mothers-to-be, need advice from u all... did u any of you apply for the cord banking for baby? Thanks

I'm thinking for this too.

Any mommies apply? Tell us more!

Daddy reply can ?

We banked dd's cord blood.

Scoobydaddy

Thanks for your reply.. but may i know what this cord banking is all about?

we oso bank our gal's in cordlife..

hope this link will help u
http://www.cordlife.com/sg/index/index.php?thisCountryIs=sg

Leanne, if u wana do it, u hv 2 do it fast becos i noticed u r due soon but @ tis stage, not sure if they can accept..call & check w them.

We banked dd's cord blood with StemCord
Here's an excerpt from their webby explaining what it's all about :

"Cord blood" is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta following delivery. Cord blood contains abundant stem cells which may be used to treat many diseases. Presently, this blood is usually discarded with the placenta after delivery.

How much?

I think still can lah. I confirmed mine only 1 week before my delivery. Anyway, even after signing up, they will still have to test to see the quality of the cordblood to see if it is viable for banking.

You will be given a kit and you will have to inform your gynae cos he/she will have to be the one to collect the blood to send to the lab.

How much you ppl pay???

Heard it's ex..

initial should be $1.2-1.5K, subsequent yr is about $250/yr for storage.

we paid $600 + for DS's cord blood banking..is with stem cord..they were having promotions them..after testing ..my DS's blood has over 1.4 billion cells count ( i forgot what they call it but min is 200 million before they can store) so we managed to store it..sub year is $250 per year...

I think is good to store the cord blood..it can save a life..be it siblings etc..

i see it as another form of insurance.

Thanks ppl.

Will talk to DH bout it.

me, too....bank dd's cord blood with stemcord....

$250 per year...can save one's life...y not....

recently, i think last week, a newborn was saved through cordblood donation via the government cordblook bank.

I think it's the best thing to have happened, though expensive. I would invest too!

Me too.. Keep dd’s cord blood with stemcord.

The time when I sign up was only 400+ cos got promotions.

kekekeke..... my dd's with Stemcord. They have speical rates if your gyne is from Gleneagles. I also pais abt $400 plus nia - special pkg price for patients of Gleneagles gyne + credit card promotions. Subsequent yr $250 - 10% (I think dun really remember liao) if pay with credit card.

I think if you are not banking your bb's cord blood, pls donate it to the National Cord Blood bank, it can save a life.

My DS with stemcord too. Ever compare cordlife and stemcord and stemcord is so much cheaper and afforable. If you recommend someone to sign up can reduce $100 from the next storage payment bill.

Sound good, maybe we can recommend those interested so everybody enjoy a lower storage payment for the next installment.

One qu: is the installment for life long?

is there any diff between cordlife and stemcord? beside the rate?

It is not installment. You have to pay an initial sum (depending on who u bank with, & whether if there's any promotion) then they will give you a collection kit which u have to pass to ur gyne when you check in for delivery. After collection of the cord blood, test will be done by the bank to see if there is enough blood cells (dun remember what they call it) to collect for storage. If the amt collect is enough for storage, then you have to pay annual storage fees till you terminate the contract.

One very impt pt to note, not sure if any of u mummies who had banked your bb's blood know anot. The cord blood stored belongs to the mummy, not the baby, meaning that the mummy has the total rights to decide whatever she wants to do with it. Even when the baby reaches 21 yrs old, the baby does not automatically takes over the cord blood. The mummy has to actually assign the blood to her child. The mummy can also sell the cord blood stored if she wants & the child does not have a say. If anything happens to the mummy, the cord blood stored will form as a part of her estate & can be willed to anybody of her choice.

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One very impt pt to note, not sure if any of u mummies who had banked your bb's blood know anot. The cord blood stored belongs to the mummy, not the baby, meaning that the mummy has the total rights to decide whatever she wants to do with it. Even when the baby reaches 21 yrs old, the baby does not automatically takes over the cord blood. The mummy has to actually assign the blood to her child. The mummy can also sell the cord blood stored if she wants & the child does not have a say. If anything happens to the mummy, the cord blood stored will form as a part of her estate & can be willed to anybody of her choice.

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Gee...I didn't know that. I thot daddy also can decide whether to use it or not.

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[quote=ringocat,Jul 5 2007, 11:45 PM]
[quote=fish_,Jul 5 2007, 10:53 PM]

One very impt pt to note, not sure if any of u mummies who had banked your bb's blood know anot. The cord blood stored belongs to the mummy, not the baby, meaning that the mummy has the total rights to decide whatever she wants to do with it. Even when the baby reaches 21 yrs old, the baby does not automatically takes over the cord blood. The mummy has to actually assign the blood to her child. The mummy can also sell the cord blood stored if she wants & the child does not have a say. If anything happens to the mummy, the cord blood stored will form as a part of her estate & can be willed to anybody of her choice.

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Gee...I didn't know that. I thot daddy also can decide whether to use it or not.

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I didn;t know that too... Thanks for all of your advice..apprecitate

ya me too, also didnt know tat...tks 4 informing, ringocat

Daddy use for what?

use for dd in times of need lah ...now i know must get mummy's consent....even though I paid for it.

must pay de????? hmmm, mine is the person from kkh ask me to donate de! so i no need pay? but she say if in future need to use, we'll hv priority???? i cant rmb.....donate to singapore cord blood bank~

Once you donate to the National Bank, then that cord blood does not belong to you already, anybody who needs it can use. U have priority, meaning if there's a match den you have priority, not you can use the blood you bank with them.

If I want to donate my BB's cord blood to the National Bank, how to go abt doing it? Kindly advise.

Get the counsellor fm ur hosptial to advise U wat are the procedures

I donate my son cord blood to Singapore Cord Blood Banking (SCBB) in KKH. Since I delivered in KKH, me n dh decide to donate so we called up SCBB.
Procedure:
Once you register with SCBB, on the day you deliver, they will provide a kit for your gynae to collect the cord blood and also you will need to draw 3 test tube of blood.
After you gave birth, SCBB will come and explained to you and will informed you after a wk if your cord blood can be kept or not.

ya, i know...but the person informed me tt, say, if in future...the blood tt we donated not used yet n we need it, we hv priority over it....

how many mths preggy are u?? n which hosp u gg to?? well, for me is when i was in my 7-8 mths, then went for check up, there's tis person who working for them de, she'll go arnd asking n introducing this to ppl then see if they want to donate anot....she will explain procedures...then ask u to sign forms....n on the day of delivery, the nurses will confirm with u again...then u confirm le then thye will draw your blood totest...

Hi, got anymore infos? I am thinking of doing it for my baby. Giving birth at Gleneagles and my gynae also from gleneagles...

Hi Tinggie, do you have to pay for them to draw your blood for testing?

StemCord can be much cheaper than Cordlife in term of costs, but what is notable is that the methods of storage in the 2 companies are different: StemCord stores using multiple cryovials while Cordlife uses just 1 cryobag.

Some notes: Cordlife is accreditated by AABB (American Association of Blood Banking) while StemCord is not; Cordlife has branches in other countries and is publicly listed I think while StemCord is Singaporean-owned.

Donation to the Singapore Cord Blood Bank is at no cost to ourselves,including the drawing of blood for testing, the tests and questionnaire that it goes through with the blood and the parents are very much more thorough than the private banks as the public bank needs to maintain very high blood quality in order to provide for public cordblood transplants ( not to say that the private banks have lower standards,but the private banks' purposes are mainly to store for private use hence if you go through their questionnaire or check out the list of tests they carry out,you will realise that they are not as lengthy).

No matter where you wish to bank your bb's cord blood with, the first and foremost thing to note is that your gynaes will need to ensure your and your bb's safety, only when these are ensured will they do the collection.

It may be good to go through your own and your hubby's family medical history to make a more informed decision, if there are family members who have had blood disorders or blood cancers etc, it may make sense to store privately as a form of insurance. The thing is Nobody can tell you the odds of you ever having to use the cord blood to save your family loved ones. What I had experienced with sales people from the private banks was that they would tell you storing privately is just like buying insurance.If you do choose to store privately, it will be good to buy accompanying cord blood insurance to insure for possible transplant costs.

What is very true is the huge potential of stem cells which may cure even the common Diabetes etc in future, what is even better are embryonic cells which raises lots of ethical controversies. Just few weeks back,it was reported in the Sg chinese news that it is possible to extract stem cells from milk teeth as well though there is still the question of quality and quality.

Me n hubby decided after a long time to donate to the public bank and use the money to make sure our coming bb is insured under MediShield asap ( cos dear Mr Khaw has not yet announced the date for auto-inclusion of bbs under Medishield), then upgrade him to enhanced MediShield with accompanying rider insurance to make sure even the co-payments are taken care of,plus to buy saving plans that comes with insurance coverage. We figure comprehensive coverage is more economical for us than spend thousands banking the cord blood privately.

The public bank will be doing DNA profiling on the blood collected from the mummies as well and inform us asap if tests on mummy's or bb's cord blood show up anything. And like what is mentioned by others, though the cord blood is donated, we can write in to request if the need arises in future, and if it has not been used, we can use it. Just like any other member of the public, we can go through the public system. The recent 2 yr old boy's case involved hospital subsidies, international cord banks searches,private insurance, medishield, medisave etc, though the bills originally came up to $30 0000, it went down to ard $4-50000 I think.

It's good to consider and talk it over with your spouse early,and check out each bank as not to overwhelm and tire yourselves.

StemCord: http://www.stemcord.com/
tel: 6471 2002

CordLife: http://www.cordlife.com/
tel: 6238 0808

Singapore Cord Blood Bank: http://www.scbb.com.sg/
tel: 9106 4752

Hope this helps

nope...bcos is donate de...so all charges r beared by them...

ya, wanna noe too. read fm the web and understand dat cordlife is accrediated by AABB but not stemcord. stemcord only follows their std but is licensed by MOH. price wise like vry ex leh esp 1st yr nid top pay so much...wah..i noe can save a life but if no $ how?

Same here... I also donate to the Singapore Cord bank... they will do all tests and notify u if they find any abnormalities, if did not hear from them, measn everything ok, they will proceed to store it. Agree that donor will hv priority shd the immediate family members need it in future.

Thanks, Debbiebaby! Your info is very detailed and useful. Think I've more or less decided to donate to SCBB. No need to waste mah, and can help others in need.

http://www.cordlife.com/sg/CordLifeAdvanta...cingPayment.php

They have all-inclusive plans & basic plans. Which one?

The recent enquiry with Cordlife was $1,400 (7%GST absorb by them) for 1st time admission. Following yearly Fee for banking with them $250/-

Anyone has any idea if there is any up coming promotion with any cord banks? such as exhibition, or if you are holding a specific type of credit card to enjoy discount.

Thanks

i saw an ad the other day, now can use baby bonus to pay for cord banking? can't remember which bank tho.

also, with SCBB, if you find out later that you need to draw your baby's cord blood out, there is actually a fee of about $20k to pay.

I thought now its a govt scheme to collect the cod blood for research and as an incentice, will store it and will release it if the owner(baby) requires its use...Hence, win-win situation..Govt use for research and if needed, the owner can retrieve it for use. This is what I heard from a friend in the medical industry.

pardon me if i'm wrong

hi,

I am an existing client of CordLife. Both the referrer and referee get 1 time $50 off respectively :>
If u need me as referral to get the $50 discount,u can pm or email me
my email:disneypoohbear@gmail.com

Hi,

We are a group of students from Anderson Junior College working on a project ON cord blood and aims to highlight the advantages of cord blood treatment and hope to create awareness in the community so as to increase number of cord blood donations to the public cord blood bank in Singapore.

Cord blood may be used in treating diseases such as leukemia, and some other genetic disorders.

We would like to hear from your views on cord blood!

Here's the link:

http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=...b9-12b58beed682

YOUR HELP WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED !!

I am with Stemcord. There is some referral discount given to applicants and if you are giving birth at NUH...even better incentive on the registration fee!

If not wrong, only $50 discount for both u & your friend.

Hey, I went for my gynae apptmt at TMC today & heard CordLife is having an event this Sat at Grand Hyatt.

Which make me recall seeing CordLife on the papers. They are involved in the recent cerebral palsy infusion of stem cells. Can someone here enlighten me anything on this please, as I am a first-time mother & planning to attend CordLife’s talk on this Sat.