Is it worth storing your baby's cord blood? - The Fifth Estate

[@veralin6223]

Thanks for this video, I decided to donate my baby’s cord blood instead of banking it. Help always goes around like a circle.

[@Eastsi9e]

So basically we should make cord blood collection a mandatory procedure for healthy babies so we can help everybody.

[@rebeccacollier5097]

I agree. If they really cared we could help so many. I would have loved to donate my baby's cord blood but there was nothing in the area... or they wouldn't even try. All I was offered was to save her cord blood for HER (or possibly us). So, private. I was SO EXCITED to donate to sick babies but they said no.

[@irenets1752]

@@rebeccacollier5097 wow, that's unbelievable ((

[@leonardodalessandro7628]

yet another example of why we need to fully fund the CBC. Thank you

[@vivageocentrism5167]

Your baby needs all its blood and stem cell immediately after birth. Delay clamping till pulsing stops and cord white. 30% of baby's blood is in the cord and needs to get to baby to repair any trauma naturally occuring during birthing. This banking is a scam , give the blood to your baby.

[@forevermore5118]

You sound like someone trying to help big pharma. Are you saying that cord blood stem cells don't help children with life-limiting disease? Sure why not let big pharma make billions from these little bald-headed kids heading into the oncology ward?

[@royalreese4429]

@@forevermore5118 um no wtf. I'm pregnant and if I want my healthy baby I'm gonna take extra steps to make sure my baby is healthy. The umbilical cord belongs to him, which MY body grew for months. I would want to ensure my child's healthy before anyboy elses. I'm definitely going to ask for delayed clamping. They also have a thing called lotus birth where you keep everything intact until it naturally falls off

[@Brittanyoneill89]

I actually did both! I had enough blood to delay the clamping and collect for banking. I might have been lucky, my baby had a long cord and plenty of blood.

[@effff327]

Exactly...think about it. If you give the baby the entirety of itself blood then it most likely wouldn't even develop diseases

[@persephone2706]

@@effff327 That's a massive misconception. A lot of diseases can still be acquired by lifestyle choices. Diabetes. Lung cancer. Et cetera.

[@bleh5409]

I know they say no one can touch it. I feel like the 1% will pay whatever to get a tiny amount which is a lot and you would never know. This is great technology but I feel it's only available to those who can afford it. Based on how things are going right now, it will literally become pay to live/be born.

[@LauraCroft1287]

Thanks for uncovering and documenting on this topic :)

[@bev5444]

This procedure sounds about as beneficial as buying the insurance on your rental car at the airport . Storing the cord blood for “private use “ for your own family reduces the chances of anyone utilizing the blood to almost zero. If you are going to save it, donate it publicly so it could actually save someone else's child.

[@juliaherbet2063]

I donated my baby cord blood.

[@ArnaudJoakim]

You probably saved a few lives!

[@namnamenamae]

Great. I think its like vaccine. If everyone's keep their baby's blood. We are all helping each other in a sense.

[@adrianasmochinarealtor6440]

thank you so much for clarifying some of the aspects of cord blood storing before I went all in for it!!! you are awesome!!!

[@MissNebulosity]

Thousands of dollars? Glad to know that rich people are the most deserving of life saving treatment. :(

[@benmcmanus8192]

hippy wake up life is a privilege that will always be determined by how much money you have

[@gendoll5006]

I think it said the public donor donation is free. But yea, it sucks.

[@iholesale]

Get a better job, or, dont have kids if you cant give them the best life

[@gendoll5006]

Ryan Haney Now that is the dumbest thing you could say pertaining to this. Just completely idiotic lol. THIS is giving your kid “the best life”? Something that majority of people don’t even know about, that’s not even a guaranteed treatment. Yea... lol ok.

[@iholesale]

@@gendoll5006 The point isnt knowing, the point is, if you arent ready to provide for your children, dont have kids. Whatever they might end up needing, make sure you can give it to them.

[@naseeha450]

Good documentary and its educative too...how is sofi doing. miss her hope she is doing well.

[@mrsseasea]

thank you for posting this video......

[@jessicadayla]

Genetic editing is something we have the ability to so. I have a condition where genetically edited stem cells could be a cure to the worst of it, I've also spent years studying it. We could be 5 years away from practical application, or we could be 25 years away, its difficult to know. Bioinformatics still has a long way to go to be reliable enough for genetic editing as treatment for some conditions, but cord blood for self transplant may be an option there. I wanted to go into research into using it for my condition, because eliminating host vs graft disease and rejection is a very appealing idea. The future will have opportunities, but we aren't at a place where its guaranteed people will live long enough to benefit.

[@Gaurav21ify]

Also if the pharma will ever allow that treatment to be public considering cure will not create revenue for them, but treating symptoms will

[@kouakoupira1814]

Thank you for much more insight.

[@kalima746]

Private banking doesn't make sense to me even when i hear it- i hope that my own baby doesn't have any issues- it would make more sense to give to someone in acuauly need but if it's public, then you do not need to even pay money to store it, correct?

[@ArnaudJoakim]

We wanted to donate our son's cord blood but not all hospitals do this procedure. Everyone should donate when they can. Many lives could be saved!

[@namnamenamae]

yes, everyone is helping himself and others when doing this.

[@michelleglass5192]

They shouldn't charge to store that if they really care about the kids

[@irri3191]

It's starting to happen and it'll it'll get better

[@deseanmustard6007]

They care about money

[@michelleglass5192]

@@deseanmustard6007 it's ashame, children are the ones that are most vulnerable in and Society, every chance I get I try to protect them and ones that can't protect themselves

[@michelleglass5192]

@@irri3191 I'm glad our children need to be protected by us and others in society so they can grow up and protect their own children that is our highest priority

[@elizabethvictoria777]

Glad I watched this. I’ve always been told it to do it because it may one day save your child’s life. I’m probably not going to do it now.

[@caroleighphillips3340]

i was Born in this fimiuliar hospital,however Born 3 Children in The Grace Maturnity in nova Scotia30 years and over and them days was asked to allow Dalhousie University to take my After Birth to Dallasity and do research on it,...iI personally never had a problem as long as t could help others because GOD IS GREAT and WORKS IN MySTERICAL WAYS.,...I say yes help those indeed. Im amazed to hear this but hey,..at least the cord bloods can quickly find a match quicker.AMEN

[@Pooles1738]

🎉

[@patrickgulay6827]

Thank you for your work

[@dolphinleary3777]

I've done this & it's a lot like the IVF journey I mean like the experience is for the whole combo not just a quick fix application to go further and discussion of growing it or something monitored milestones and trimesters is not a tell tell sign when to do it there isn't a chemical from a stranger because it has storage that other companies can use but upon necessary attitude COOL VIDEO THANKS

[@CameshaCamz]

I'm still not clear

[@vanessacsebastian]

Good thing I've seen this video before giving birth or else I would have gone for it.

[@LookingupforJesus396]

The placenta will return this blood to the baby if the doctor’s would not clap it off. No need to store it......just wait five minutes after birth before cutting the cord. It will be returned to the baby. I don’t know what or who is making profit off our children’s blood, but it’s happening.

[@diving.deep.]

dweller inHisShelter They probably sell it to the rich to drink 🍷 🤢

[@AC-es5di]

@@diving.deep. I guess the adrenochrome they use is not enough...

[@bodybyfrankie]

LOL. "gasp, to those people that used public stem cells. F@cking gasp." LMFAO

[@dogie1070]

Aw, cute babies!

[@SheWhoRemembers]

Stealing cord blood from the newborn is a crime against humanity.

[@alexyangers]

How are they stealing it from the baby? (honest question, I thought they just cut the cord).

[@MsBhappy]

Uhh, any option besides becoming medical waste and contributing to greenhouse gases seems like a good one to me: Either it is privately stored like in this video, it is donated to medical science research, or it is donated to a public cord blood bank.

[@sonyakemp8232]

@@MsBhappy It's part of the baby's circulation - that just happens to be in the cord when the baby is born. Newborns benefit from waiting until the cord stops pulsating before it is cut (generally 1-2 minutes). It is standard practice at many hospitals in the world to NOT clamp the cord immediately. Studies of babies at 4 months of age showed that the babies who had delayed cord clamping had far better iron stores (amongst other things) compred to those babies who had their blood prevented from returning to their body at birth.

[@gendoll5006]

Fear mongering. Smh.

[@shelbytaylor4634]

Good information! I have to say I'm with Zoe on this one. This should be an automatic procedure done to help other children. Of course, with the exception of parents who do not want this done. Within HIPPA rights, and such. But, if privately this will only help families with children who already have these medical needs, these donations should be mostly public. If I'm saying that correctly. IDK. Either way, THANK YOU to those willing to seek out this information so that families don't use private banking under false pretenses.

[@riverdeep399]

Never heard of it. This isn't a thing in the UK.

[@sonyakemp8232]

Thankfully in the UK they recognise that the baby is entitled to it's blood at birth - not stored in a lab somewhere, likely to never be used.

[@simonm434]

@@sonyakemp8232 At least 5 companies offering this in the UK. Personally I think this is a good thing

[@persephone2706]

Yes it is very much a thing in the UK.

[@gendoll5006]

What does she say at 8:47(ish)? Sounds like she’s saying “an animal fee”, so at first I thought maybe she meant nominal? But then it also sounds like she said “annual” ?!

[@MsBhappy]

It's annual

[@persephone2706]

Annual.

[@cassieblack1776]

Is it just me that it’s bs that you😅 as a women made that cord and the blood in it. You literally created it! Yet your being charged!?!? That’s disgusting . Absolute extortion.

[@berlindamoustafa1887]

Thought the same thing

[@vincerushiti3358]

Pre-Covid and Vaccine

[@irri3191]

2% of everyone's Cord Blood should be donated to research if a second 2% is needed then monetary compensation would be due.

[@michellemarie1197]

It's an expense that is worth it

[@enricol.5659]

The video you did on iglesia ni cristo is fake!

[@sinestro1136]

enrico calica yes it is lol

[@morningbot6447]

And they disabled the comment section there.

[@riverdeep399]

What is it? I don't see the video?