We're expecting our second here in a few months, and from my research it's really expensive and most folks would be better off donating. I feel like banks feed too much off of peoples fears instead of the better good. What are the odds of someone needing their own cord blood vs. it being a publicly accessible thing? It feels like donating blood to a bank to store it for myself in case I ever need it.

Again, it's an exciting field with a lot of really good outcomes, but it kind of plays into the whole, "what if something happens to your kid fear" to sell it to people, instead of thinking about all the other kids that you could be saving.