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Cord Blood Storage
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Expectant Parents:
This is your chance to make an important decision, one that could benefit your family's future health - cord blood storage.
What is cord blood storage?
Cord blood is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord and placenta following child birth and is routinely discarded with the placenta and umbilical cord. Now a process called cord blood banking allows you to have your newborn baby's cord blood saved for potential medical uses.
Your newborn baby's cord blood is a rich source of stem cells, which are genetically unique to your baby and family. These valuable cells can only be collected in the minutes after child birth.
Collecting the cord blood poses no risk to your newborn and collections can take place after vaginal or cesarean births. The collection procedure, which takes only a few minutes, is simple, safe, and painless.
Why is cord blood storage important?
Preserving your baby's stem cells is considered to be a type of "safeguard," or biological resource for your family. Already, these cells have been used in thousands of lifesaving medical treatments, and many doctors and scientists believe that in the future, stem cells may be used to repair brain or spinal cord damage, or regenerate heart tissue in patients who have suffered a heart attack.
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