SINGAPORE: Cord blood bank employees frequently approached Grace Tan, a first-time mother, during baby fairs two years ago when she was expecting her daughter. They would come up to her with cute goody bags and freebies.
The 38-year-old claimed that “the experience was always pleasant until it got to the eye-watering sums we’d have to pay.”
Co-founder of Avatar Tech, a company that makes vending machines, Ms. Tan noted that the salespeople who contacted her gave off the impression that everyone was keeping their children’s cord blood stored in private banks.
They adopted a more “everyone’s doing this” mentality. When are you planning to register, then? They tried to convince her to sign up “right there and then,” she said, adding, “Not if, but when.”
After her daughter was born in November 2022, Ms. Tan donated her cord blood to the Singapore Cord Blood Bank, the only public cord blood bank in the nation.
However, the single mother acknowledged that she worried that she would lose out if she chose not to use private banking.
“I wondered what would happen if my child needed the cord blood at a later age. Not a great chance, but nevertheless. When I realized that it’s donated, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s been used up, Ms. Tan added.
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