This is a follow-up post to my previous article here on whether cord blood banking is necessary, and one that has been highly requested by many of you who can't decide whether to donate or store your baby's cord blood privately.
(Please don't ever discard it - it is a huge waste of resources that could have otherwise been used to save someone else's life or even just to do further clinical research on.)
This is a pretty debatable issue and there's a wide range of opinions on this topic. While my gynae encouraged it, I've also heard from readers who believe that it'll be better to donate rather than to pay a fee to store one's baby cord blood privately.
Feeling lost, I turned to the ever-supportive community of mummies on Dayre (#dayremummies), and sought their advice on what they had chosen to do for their ......