3 Responses to “Can A Mother Use Cord Blood From Own Baby?”

1. Free Wordpress Plugins says:

   September 21, 2009 at 7:16 pm

   The donation for a bone marrow transplant is matched by HLA (human leukocyte antigen) tissue type (it would be a bone marrow transplant for that disease). The biology is a lil over my head, but it gets into dna testing. The best chance at a match is a full blooded sibling, at a 1 in 4 chance. The best best chance is a parent or child, at 1 in 8. So, your baby has a 1 in 8 chance of being a match to your wife. Cord blood gives a lil leeway on the match, so the chances of the cord blood being able to work are a lil higher.
   BUT….. one unit of cord blood is not enough to transplant an adult. One birth, one unit. If she were to need a transplant, and if her baby was a match, she would still be going to the public donor bank for a second, matching unit of cord blood.
   Also, using cord blood in the transplant introduces some risks that arent really there when using an adult marrow donor. Cord blood takes longer to engraft, and since cord blood is often more of a mismatch, gvhd is a greater concern. Also, since two donors have to be used (atleast) for an adult, the chances of the transplant failing to engraft altogether are higher.
   I needed the transplant for a different disease, and had no matching donors, so my transplant used two units of cord blood from the public donor bank.
   To get a real idea about whether or not you should privately bank, she should sit down with her hematologist and discuss the options of a transplant, and whether or not she would be a candidate for the cord blood transplant (as of right now, its still in clinical trials for adults, because of having to use multiple donors), and to fully understand the chances of the baby being an HLA match.
   The marrow donors program website ( http://www.marrow.org ) will have some basic information about the transplant in general, and using cord blood. You can also google “hematopoetic stem cell transplant” which is the medically correct term for a bone marrow transplant (even with an adult donor, they rarely use actual marrow anymore, rather peripheral blood stem cells, so its a stem cell transplant rather than a bone marrow transplant), and “hematopoetic cord blood stem cell transplant”.
2. Lisa A says:

   September 22, 2009 at 12:44 am

   The cord blood is a perfect match to the baby, not your wife. The cord blood would be only as good of a match for your wife as any of her siblings, parents, or any other children that she might have. They should all be tested, asap.
   Wow, that’s rough. What a horrible disease to have to deal with. Good luck.
3. Celeste Ruby says:

   November 8, 2009 at 6:16 pm

   Interesting that you are pulling posts from other sites and not crediting the original poster.

   *I* posted that long answer, originally on yahoo answers, over two months ago, under the screen name “midnightmoon”. Yet it is here, on your site, without permission, and without credit.
   http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090911165431AAgu1mj

   I am seeing my posts from yahoo answers all over your site, actually. Some actually do post my screen name, but others like this one do not.

   http://www.awarenesspins.net/2009/10/24/what-is-a-bone-marrow-aspiration/
   This one half way cites me, but only says midnight, not midnightmoon, which is my screen name on the site you have pulled all this from.
   http://www.awarenesspins.net/2009/10/12/what-if-i-disagree-with-doctors-decision/

   Pending legal action towards your site, I demand that you completely remove this post, and all others from my account that you do not have permission to post. I do NOT want my posts on other websites without credit, and am fascinated that your site feels justified in plagiarizing other people’s writing and responses in order to look knowledgeable.