Use my CBR coupon referral of $250 off the total cost with code M4125 when you enroll with Cord Blood Registry (CBR). This is my referral code as part of the CBR Parent program–it can not be used in combination with other referrals. You may print the coupon or provide the code when you enroll.

Use these tips to get further discounts off the cost of cord blood banking and make it more manageable:

1. Use a payment plan. Most cord banks offer payment plans. As an example, Cord Blood Registry offers payment plans that reduce the initial cord blood banking cost to as little as $59 per month. (Find costs for Canadian residents here. Note that CBR offers Canadian residents a 6 month payment plan with no interest–call a representative to learn more.)
2. Use a gift registry so that friends and family can contribute to reduce your cord blood cost. Parents can announce a gift registry as an enclosure with birth announcements, or sent as a link at the end of birth announcements sent via email.
3. Discounts for $1000 for multiples (twins, triplets, and other multiples). CBR offers a $1000 discount for each child born as a twin, triplet, or multiple whose cord blood is banked at their company.
4. Stay with the same cord bank for a $400 discount with your next child. Most cord banks offer large discounts to repeat clients. For example, Cord Blood Registry offers a $400 discount on cord blood collection and storage to repeat parents.

After a baby is delivered, cord blood is the blood left in the umbilical cord. Cord blood contains stem cells, or “master cells” that can make different types of tissue. The stem cells in cord blood can be used to regenerate bone marrow, blood, and skin. Cord blood can only be collected when a baby is delivered.

Cord blood is important because the stem cells in it can be used to grow new tissues and cells in the body. For this reason, cord blood stem cells have been used to cure diabetes, skin cancers, leukemia, bone marrow cancers, and other debilitating conditions. In order to work, the cells must be a match, so the best donor is one’s own cord blood stem cells. However, cord blood cells have been used to cure numerous conditions in siblings as well.

A cord blood bank is the place where a baby’s cord blood is stored. It can be stored for the duration of a person’s lifetime.

Cord blood banking cost includes a one-time upfront charge, plus a yearly storage fee. Clients can receive cord blood banking discounts on both fees with most major cord blood banks:

1. The total fee for collecting a baby’s cord blood is $1900 with cord blood discount code M4125 for $250 off at Cord Blood Registry. (Without a discount, the cost is $2150.) This includes everything for the first year–the storage fee, shipping, and collection.
2. The yearly fee after this totals $125 per year for storage.
3. Use a payment plan to lower the cost to as low as $59 per month. (For locations outside of the United States, call CBR to ask about payment plans. Canadian residents can opt to spread the initial payments over 6 months, for example.)

After a baby is born and the umbilical cord has been cut, the doctor takes the cord blood. It takes less than five minutes and involves no contact with the mother or newborn. Cord blood collection is painless and clean.

It is very simple to collect cord blood. Companies such as Cord Blood Registry can send a collection kit to an expecting mother. The mother takes the kit to the hospital when she goes to deliver her newborn. The doctor or nurse collects and seals the baby’s cord blood, and a courier picks it up.

The cord blood bank arranges to have the sample picked up by a medical courier shortly after the delivery of the baby. The cord blood bank counts the number of stem cells that are present and living in the sample and properly prepares them for storage.