I have found that not every hospital is participating in helping women to donate or bank their cord blood. This is a woman’s individual choice and it should be a decision you make because you have made your mind up not because it’s not available. Because cord blood banking is still somewhat new to everyone it may not be something that takes off over night.

How do you find a participating hospital?

If you are pregnant and you have made the decision to donate or bank cord blood the first thing you need to do is to make your doctor aware of your decision. Talking to him or her first may make it easier to find the rest of the answers you are looking for, such as what hospitals are participating and such. If a hospital of your choice is listed you just need to contact the cord blood bank to make them aware of the decision. Between the cord blood bank and your doctor, someone will notify the hospital staff of your decision. The bank will be in touch with you as you get closer to your due date.

If you cannot find a participating hospital

Sometimes this will happen and you live in an area that does not offer participating hospitals so what do you do? You do have several options here.

First, if there is a hospital close to the one that you will be using they may be able to collect the cord blood still. Call the cord blood bank to ask them if they can help.

There is a bank called Cryobanks International and they accept donation from anywhere in the

You may only have the option to donate cord blood due to the distance the bank is or participating hospital. The banks that only accept donations are not always listed on the hospital listings.

If you want to see if your hospital is participating, call them and ask. If they are not, inquire to see if they can become a participating hospital. The future depends on cord blood banking now.

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