Delayed cord clamping and cord blood donation/banking

flyer23

I just posted this in a thread from yesterday on cord blood banking, but I figured I'd start a new thread as well so that it didn't get lost in that discussion.

In the other thread, a few posters said they weren't donating or banking cord blood because they wanted to do delayed cord cutting. Well, you can delay cord cutting AND still bank/donate cord blood. You can even collect cord blood for banking/donation after the placenta has been delivered.

http://www.mazecordblood.com/blog/?p=253

http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/cordIssues.html#Clamp

It does decrease your chances of getting enough cord blood, but it's certainly worth trying!