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My wife and I had our first child last October, and we wanted to collect the cord blood to donate, but the hospital said they didn't do cord blood collection. I know you can't speak for our specific hospital, but would that be a problem for other customers? Hospitals preventing nurses from collecting blood because of safety or liability concerns?

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Donations are pretty heavily concentrated in New York City and they have a hard time collecting from other areas.

As for cord blood banking, anyone who can get a kit (which should be everyone because we ship nationally) should be able to bank, but in the rare cases that doctors push back, you can request that they put in your medical record that they are refusing, and usually they will reconsider because - inversely -they don't want to take on the liability of not banking haha

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