Private Banking

The Perinatal Stem Cell Society is a strong supporter of private cord blood banking and encourages every parent that is having a child to look into this option for their family. Although the public cord blood banks are now financially viable, and you may potentially find a stem cell source through the national registries if a member of your family becomes sick, the best stem cells for your family will come from your family. It is that simple.

The Perinatal Stem Cell Society does not recommend one private cord blood bank over another but will answer your questions about private banking if you contact us. We believe it is best that you do the research yourself. To help expecting parents find accurate and unbiased facts about private cord blood banking options, the Perinatal Stem Cell Society is working in cooperation with the Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation to provide information on private cord blood banking for your family.

A private cord blood bank is a laboratory that parents contract to store their child's cord blood in case the family needs it. The parents have custody of the cord blood until the child is an adult. The cord blood might someday be needed by the donor baby, or it could be used by a relative who is a close enough match to receive a transplant from the donor (typically a sibling).

The website of the Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation provides lists of private banks around the world, and a suggested questionnaire to help parents evaluate banks. Important factors to consider when comparing banks are the quality of their laboratory, their track record of releasing transplants, and their financial stability. The Parent's Guide to Cord Blood Foundation encourages parents who are banking privately to ship cord blood with medical couriers and to choose a laboratory which has been inspected by a regulatory agency.

The Perinatal Stem Cell Society is a strong supporter of private perinatal stem cell banking and encourages every family to store both the stem cells in the umbilical cord blood as well as the stem cells in the cord itself (called Wharton's Jelly stem cells). If you do not save your child’s perinatal stem cells at the time of birth, you can never go back and collect this rich source of pristine cells that are a 100% match to your baby.


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