One of the most innovative inventions in the medical community in recent times has been the appearance of cord blood banking, and with them, the power to cryogenically preserve a quantity of your kid's stem cell manufacturing umbilical cord blood, to be used for transplant in the event of an emergency one day. This could replace bone marrow in numerous examples, and is typically preferable, because of the fact that it precludes having to find a donor - many times not a straightforward task.

So, what part do cord blood banking play? Firstly, there's a difference between private and non-private cord blood banks.

Public banks accept donations of umbilical blood and don't charge a storage fee - the blood isn't stored for the point of keeping for the one special donor child who it originally belonged to. Personal banks, on the other hand, save your baby's cord blood solely for your baby and for nobody else. As the cord blood is being cryogenically saved for one actual recipient there's a significant fee concerned for collection and storage. An advantage naturally, is if your kid is ever wanting a transplant, their own cord blood is safely waiting for them at the personal cord blood bank.

There's, naturally, some debate - there are those that think it's morally not right to for a personal institution to charge money to horde what really should be in public donated for the good of the community, and then there are those that feel that it's a fogeys right to use biological material belonging to their kid in whatever way serves their own kid's best interest. Hence the debate about cord blood banking is dependent on one's mind, religion and thinking