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It has been used for the baby themselves & siblings :)

Some cases where babies use them themselves: https://www.nature.com/articles/bmt2012146

https://pediatrics.duke.edu/news/umbilical-cord-blood-improv...

I understand that it happens, my question is the prevalence. When I looked into banking cord blood I found a lot of ‘possible’ and one-off cases, but no actual statistics about how likely it was to be useful. That made it unpalatable, especially compared to the known benefits of delayed clamping.

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