Pregnancy- would you donate your umbilical cord?

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Never heard of this until I got pregnant!
What is umbilical cord donation?
-The blood in your baby’s placenta and umbilical cord is rich with stem cells. These stem cells can be used in stem cell transplants to save the life of someone with blood cancer or a blood disorder.
Usually, the placenta and umbilical cord are thrown away.
How does it work?
It’s a simple, safe, and swift procedure. Once your baby has been safely born, vaginally or by caesarean, the umbilical cord will be clamped as normal. Once the placenta has been delivered, one of our cord collectors will take your cord and placenta to a separate room to extract the blood.
It will then be transported to a cell therapy centre to make sure it’s suitable for transplant and then freeze it in their cord bank until it’s needed. If it’s not suitable for transplant it will be used for research
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I delayed cord clamping until all of the umbilical cord blood had drained back into my newborn baby. I figured it was more useful for him to have the blood then store it later for a just in case scenario.

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No. That blood belongs to my baby. My baby will get it, nobody else.

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But if you do delayed cord cutting/cramping wouldn’t all the blood have gone to your baby and no longer be in the umbilical cord?

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Your placenta won’t be thrown away, they use certain parts for vaccines (which is kind of odd since you will vaccinate your kid later). Further if you have money and you are ill stem cells can be used to replace certain organs, cause it can take any form.  It’s even proven that letting the cord attached for extra 10min increases the chances for surviving by premature baby. The stem cell would go to the baby so it can take over whatever part in the body that’s not functioning the proper way. 
Why not leave the cord so it fall of naturally? My mom had done this (5 kids) so everything would be adapted by the baby. Beside stem cell the baby gets all the nutritions and the rest of the blood.  It’s called Lotus Birth
But this is maybe a culture thing, since I don’t see it in western countries and most people don’t even know this, so maybe it’s a cultural thing 🤷🏽‍♀️
If you don’t mind, then it’s definitely welcoming for those who can use it for whatever reason.

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I was going to but it was at a hospital that doesn't do it and the process was way too arduous and I didn't wanna go through all that. They make it so extremely uneven difficult.

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The only umbilical cord I donated was my son's, born in 2002. After that I've always been told there's no more "donating" but you can pay exuberant amounts of $ to store it for yourself. As for the process, there was none. Instead of bring tossed as waste it was kept for donation. It didn't change the birth process at all.

Pregnancy- would you donate your umbilical cord?

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