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cord blood is the best gift you can give your baby after she is born. Not convinced?
Here are some advantages of saving of umbilical cord blood for your baby
Your extracting cord blood for your baby is not painful for you and your baby
Your placenta and the umbilical cord would have been discarded anyway. Why not use it for the welfare of your baby and its siblings?
There are many diseases like cancer which can be treated with the help of the patients stem cells
Bone marrow can supply stem cells too. However, the quality and quantity is a lot better in the umbilical cord.
If a person has his own stem cells, he does not have to depend on others for donation. He is his own donor.
There can be a situation where the donors stem cells do not match that of the patients. As a result, treatment will be delayed leading to dire consequences. This could have been avoided if the patients parents had decided to preserve his cord blood after he was born.
Preserving your baby’s cord blood will not only help your baby but also her siblings whose cord blood you have not saved.
You can look at it as insurance for your family.
Incase, you see that your child is growing up healthy and there is no problem in the next few years, you can chose to donate the umbilical cord blood to a needy family.
Diseases which can be cured with Cord Blood
Here is a list of some of the diseases that can be treated with the help of your baby’s umbilical cord blood:
Acute Leukemias
Chronic Leukemias
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Stem Cell Disorders
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Phagocyte Disorders
Liposomal Storage Diseases
Histiocytic Disorders
Inherited Erythrocyte Abnormalities
Congenital (Inherited) Immune System Disorders
Other Inherited Disorders
Inherited Platelet Abnormalities,
Plasma Cell Disorders
Autoimmune Diseases
Brain Tumors
Ewing Sarcoma
Neuroblastoma
Ovarian Cancer
Renal Cell Carcinoma
Small-Cell Lung Cancer
Testicular Cancer.
Cord blood banking may sound expensive now, but if you look that benefits you and your family might be getting out of it, the expense looks quite miniscule. So, think again. You love your baby very much and will always try to do everything possible to ensure that she is healthy and happy. Save her umbilical cord blood. Save the very cells that created her. Give her a gift she will always remember – her own stem cells. They can give her a new life!
Gift your child a new life – save her umbilical cord blood. Register yourself at the nearest cord blood banking facility today. Your baby’s stem cells can save lives. For more information visit CordBlood-Banking.Org
