What would be the logistics involoved in banking umbilical cord blood after a homebirth? In a hospital it’s seems fairly straightfoward, but a homebirth has challenges.
We chose not to, but discussed the cord blood banking option with our midwife while planning our home birth. As far as I can tell it was almost the same as with the hospital except we did the final delivery to the bank rather than the hospital doing it for us. That might vary from midwife to midwife and hospital to hospital. Our backup hospital didn’t do much for you other than preserve the cord blood. Someone from the bank came to pick up from them on a regular basis though, so it was a little bit logistically easier in that way.
Thanx NAF1138.