Hi everyone,

Sorry for a very late post however I thought it was worthwhile commenting on our experience. We collected the stem cells when we had our daughter. We were able to allow the cord to stop pulsating naturally itself and then the cells were collected. This option suited all our requirements however it is worthwhile noting that you are unlikely to get as large a collection of stem cells. This ultimately means that there are less stem cells being donated to research (a portion of all stem cells collected are donated to research involving stem cells).

We live in SA however when I was speaking to the company they advised that it is actually illegal in NSW to collect the stem cells prior to cessation of the cord pulsating (not sure if this is true or not but thought worth a mention). Of course they would prefer that we collected prior to the cessation of the cord pulsating so they would receive a larger research pool.

Hope this helps.