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If I had to choose between the two I would donate.

We donated. Didn't even know the hospital offered it till we got there(didn't do a tour). I am really glad that we did it.

I would donate if I had to choose one.

Cord donation for me. We donated, though I dont know if it was ever used. Cord banking is not that useful to the individual it's banked for, because if you need those cells it generally means there is something wrong wih the ones you already have. In other words there is some kind of mutation that makes the cells unusable.

Delayed clamping for us.

i looked into both and donating wasn't a viable option for us. we delayed clamping.

We did delayed cord clamping but donating sounds like an equally good idea!

@Mrs. Jacks: Interesting!

I had wanted to bank on first thought, but it turned out to be a little too expensive. I wanted to donate but our hospital wasn't a collection site and I didn't push into it further. Maybe next time I will.

We donated.

I wanted to donate, but they didn't collect on Fridays and weekends and I had the babies on Friday. O well.

We're doing delayed clamping.

We donated. Small gesture on our part that might go a log way to do a lot of good.

Both our midwives and all the banks we asked said they're not mutually exclusive, so I think in many cases you can do both. They said the quantity of blood needed for banking is small compared to the total tranfused to baby through the cord, so it can e collected after. If our hospital were a site for the public bank we'd do that, but it's not. Still haven't decided whether to pay for private banking. In any case, our plan was to prioritize delayed clamping because there is a near certain benefit, then get what blood is left for the theoretical/potential benefit of banking.

We did both! It was exactly what @anandam said -- even after delayed clamping, there is often plenty of blood left to donate. My midwives were very supportive of delayed clamping, basically what they said was "make sure your own baby gets the benefits first, and then let us worry about whether there's enough left to donate." Fortunately, it worked out!

Our hospital does not collect for donation so we did delayed clamping and will hopefully do it again this time.

Donate! We banked ours because my husband had strong feelings about it, but also intended to do a minimally delayed clamping. DD was born so quickly that we didn't get a chance to communicate the clamping delay but in retrospect I am very glad. DD was hospitalized for 24 hours a few days after birth due to jaundice, and delayed cord clamping would have increased the severity of the jaundice.

we delayed cord clamping. I wanted to donate the cord blood too but honestly I didn't take the time to research it/get organized about it, and baby was born a little early. the only cord banking that my ob discussed with me and that I saw fliers around the offices for was private and we weren't interested in that.

My hospital and OB don't do donations so we weren't able to donate Also both my boys were born on weekend hours.

We had jaundice with our first with delayed clamping, and I wasn't about to increase the risks of that again so we didn't do either the second time.