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Originally Posted by Paige, CPM  Cryobank International in FL is the only bank that will allow you to donate from a homebirth. To donate to the national donation bank your hospital lab has to nationally certified. For many reasons, practicality, cost...you will obviously not be getting your home certified as a lab. So, the only option is to donate to an international bank, which Cryobank will do for you. You need to give them plenty of heads up and they will send you a kit.
Before I got preeclampsia I was going to donate my sons cord blood if there was enough after some time with his cord still intact. I still have the old kit up in my midwifery supply closet. We also had cryobank come to our state midwifery meeting and present about the option and how to collect. So they will work closely with your midwife/s to help make it happen if that is what you want.
In the experience of our midwives in MA not cutting the cord immediately at birth worked sometimes to get enough to store or donate, and other times it did not.
Good luck!
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Celgene will also take cord blood (and the placenta) from a homebirth, that and cryobank are the only TWO companies that will.
After my first son's birth, we waited to cut the cord and still got enough blood. It's great that your MA midwives are getting training about it - with my second son, I wanted to do it again, but my midwife (not the same midwife as with my first birth) didn't think she could handle the complicated blood-drawing process and all the tubes and things (to be fair, she was also sick at the time), and wouldn't do it.
That was disappointing.
