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by Mizu.Koori on October 10th, 2006

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What do parents do with a baby's umbilical cord?

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  • by karamel_honnie on December 6th, 2006

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    u can save it for cord blood or if ur religious u may burry it or eat it. in some religions thats what they do. but if your just a normal person with no religion or something close to it you might wanna put it in a cord bank or just let ur husband cut it and have the doctors dispose of it lol.

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  • by piggybear on December 6th, 2006

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    Usually nothing. A doctor can remove the blood from the cord and have it stored, which seems pretty expensive to me. The blood contains stem cells which could be used at a later time if a disease or medical condition would happen to occur to a family member.

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  • by Olivebranch on October 21st, 2006

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    There is a recent practice of saving the umbilical cord by using a "cord banking" system. Parents can privately pay to have their baby's cord specially preserved and placed in the cord bank for the future in ase of disease like leukemia, lymphoma, other cancers, sickle cell disease, thalassemia or other transplant-treatable diseases.

    This is a controversial practice due to the expense of the banking. Also--some say that the chances of needing the cords (stem cells from the cords) is fairly small.

    You can read more about it here:
    http://pediatrics.about.com/od/agesandstages/i/cord_blood_bank_2.htm

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  • by Roger Kovaciny on October 11th, 2006

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    When we lived in the country and had a child at home, we buried it and the placenta in the garden. Good fertilizer, but you'd have to roll a rock on top of it to keep dogs away.

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  • by BatmanYahoo on October 10th, 2006

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    An umbilical cord is useless in post-natal stages. It is disposed off after the operation (or labour).

    Its primary function is to act as a bridge between the child and the mother... it's of no use once the baby is born.

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