How much does freezing your umbilical cord cost?

Future Health Technologies (Britain's largest private family cord blood stem cell bank) currently (November 2009) charges £1,395 for its standard cord blood collection and storage service.This includes: the collection kit, delivery of the sample, all processing and testing plus an initial storage period of 20 years. As of this month the company are the first private stem cell bank to enable parents to also store cord tissue (this contains the stem cells that can turn into bone, cartilage, muscle and tendon) alongside the cord blood.This costs an additional £495. More information can be found at www.futurehealth.co.uk.The company holds a full unconditional licence from the UK Human Tissue Authority.