Should You Bank Your Babyâs Cord Blood?
The stem cells in this vital fluid could save someoneâs life, but it probably wonât be your childâs.
Credit.Jun Cen
Dec. 18, 2020
To bank or not to bank â that is the question I found myself reckoning with around six months into my pregnancy, when advertisements for private cord blood banks seemed to be popping up everywhere.
âProtect
what matters most,â a poster in my obstetricianâs office said. âBuild your family a healthy future,â an ad on my Instagram feed prompted.
At the time, I had no idea what cord blood was, or why Iâd want to pay some company hundreds of dollars per year to hold onto it. But didnât I want to protect my family? I was forced to pay attention.