Anonymous wrote:We decided to donate to the national cord blood bank instead. The chances of needing it ourselves are very small, and the cost of keeping it is pretty high (when you think about how many years you would be paying to store it, it really adds up). If we had specific reason to think it might be useful to us down the road, based on family history, it might have been a different decision, but with our current situation, it didn't seem worth it.
+1 to all of this. We will be donating as well, and hope that it'll be useful to another family out there.