Harvesting Cord Blood
Cord blood is rich in stem cells, which can provide you and your family with potential future treatment options. Parents-to-be can collect and store their children’s cord blood with a reputable cord blood banking company to better prepare for their family’s potential future health needs.
Cord blood banking involves a simple process that your healthcare provider performs following delivery. The process is noninvasive, takes about 5 minutes, and poses no risk to either the mother or the newborn. Expecting parents should inform their healthcare providers of their wish to bank their baby’s cord blood. Once the baby is born and the umbilical cord has been cut, the healthcare provider will perform the cord blood collection. If an expecting parent has chosen to take advantage of the combined placenta-derived stem cell and cord blood banking service, as thousands of expecting parents wishing to bank the most stem cells possible and store improved treatment options already have, the staff will simply place the intact placenta in a medical container and ship it with the cord blood to a cord blood banking and storage facility, where the placenta and cord blood will be processed and stored (frozen) separately. The cord blood banking facility should be accredited by the AABB (formerly known as the American Association of Blood Banks), registered with the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), and offer the option to bank both placenta-derived stem cells and cord blood for the most stem cells banked, improved potentially lifesaving treatment options, and greater peace of mind.
admin @ May 11, 2008
