Consider Cord Blood and Cord Tissue Banking
Consider cord blood and cord tissue banking. By collecting your baby’s cord blood and cord tissue stem cells at birth, you will always have an exact match to that child’s cell. In addition, these cells may provide a match for other family members. Best of all, this process is totally safe and does not harm you or your baby.
Further, through the research being done in regenerative medicine, there is great hope and promise in treating things like autism, diabetes, hearing loss, stroke, brain injury and more.
There are currently over 80 diseases treated with cord blood stem cells and researchers make progress daily in advanced therapies using cord blood and tissue stem cells.
Remember that the process to collect cord blood and tissue has no impact on the newborn or mother. This means there is no risk from collection. Because these cells were collected from your child’s cord blood and/or tissue, the cells are a 100% match for them, and a potential 1 in 4 match with their siblings.
Parents may ask if they should store the cord blood for each of their children. The simple answer is yes. Maintaining these valuable stem cells is the best way to ensure you have a positive match in the event of future need.
Current research indicates stem cells once stored have no expiration date. This is good news for anyone looking to use those cells for treatment in 20+years.
Families with known risk factors or medical histories are especially encouraged to store their baby’s cord blood. Maintaining a stored sample of ideally matched cord blood is a great way to have peace of mind.
Will You Store Your Baby’s Cord Blood and/or Cord Tissue?
There were 3.98 million babies born in the United States in 2015. That figure represents nearly 4 million opportunities to preserve cord blood. Make sure your child’s cord blood and cord tissue is one of the samples collected and stored.
Finally, we don’t know what the future will hold for when it comes to treatments using cord blood and cord tissue. Storing your baby’s cord blood and cord tissue is the best way to be prepared. Contact us to get started with Securacell today!
