My kids' (16 & 11) cord-blood and tissue were frozen with a similar service at birth.
I saw your pricing and was a bit shocked that it's 3x what I pay on an annualized basis. However, my rate seems to have been grandfathered in - the other service has also updated their pricing to match yours.
1. Is there anything particularly different from the competition that you offer?
2. Is there a reason for such a steep price increase? (While I understand the monthly payments, a 3x multiple over 16 years seems pretty steep. You, like the service we used, offer ~20 year storage commitment. Should I be preparing to pay 10 times as much if we want to preserve it for the 20-40 year age span?)
It's good you did that. We passed on doing it for both our daughters (11 & 7). In hindsight after my younger daughter was diagnosed with Leukemia the decision not to do it wasn't really good. She's in remission and fine now. But you never know when treatments would be facilitated by the stem cells.
Saving your youngest daughter's stemcells might not have done much, since they likely were "contaminated" with very early stages disease already. Your oldest daughter's stemcells would have had a 1/4 chance of being compatible, but maybe that was what you meant. The chances of needing stem cell treatment for your children are not that high though, so I don't think you should feel bad about not doing it. I'm glad it worked out in the end, I wish her a good life!
I've heard of other services that will extract and then culture stem cells from milk teeth or even from bone marrow. Have halfway considered it, but making a special trip and expense to get bone marrow extracted on the off chance it'll be useful in the future is a bit tough to convince oneself to do...
Hi! 1. Yes - we are more affordable, offer placenta banking (which few other banks offer), and we process stem cells manually (by hand) as opposed to automatically, which recovers up to 25% more stem cells than other automated approaches
2. It depends on the agreement you signed - some agreements have disclosures about inflation impacting pricing, so perhaps. We structured our pricing around expedited shipping to our lab with biological goods & cryopreservation
I saw your pricing and was a bit shocked that it's 3x what I pay on an annualized basis. However, my rate seems to have been grandfathered in - the other service has also updated their pricing to match yours.
1. Is there anything particularly different from the competition that you offer?
2. Is there a reason for such a steep price increase? (While I understand the monthly payments, a 3x multiple over 16 years seems pretty steep. You, like the service we used, offer ~20 year storage commitment. Should I be preparing to pay 10 times as much if we want to preserve it for the 20-40 year age span?)