National Cord Blood Awareness Month
July is National Cord Blood Awareness Month and has been established as a mechanism to create greater awareness and visibility to the tremendous benefits of preserving cord blood when a baby is born. Umbilical cord blood and tissue stem cells contain the vital blueprint our bodies require to build everything from heart tissue to neurons. These blueprints are locked within stem cell-rich cord blood.
Healthcare providers nationwide make continuous efforts to keep their patients educated on the best ways to remain healthy and active. An area where doctors are seeing greater hope and promise is in the field of stem cell research.
There are currently over 80 diseases that can be treated with cord blood stem cells and researchers continue to make progress everyday in the advanced therapies using cord blood and tissue stem cells.
National Cord Blood Awareness Month is just another way to help healthcare providers and parents recognize that storing cord blood now may prove to be a priceless form of therapy at some point later in life. Some of the most intriguing areas of research include regenerative medicine, multiple sclerosis, and ALS treatment.
The process to collect cord blood and tissue has no impact on the newborn or mother, so this means there is no risk from collection. Once collected, cord blood and tissue is cryogenically stored for years and made available later in the event of a need. 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 chance of a match with their siblings.
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 is one of the samples collected and stored.
July is National Cord Blood Awareness Month, so use this as a chance to learn more about how this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity can help you. Don’t miss your opportunity to collect and store your baby’s umbilical cord blood. Give us a call today at 1-866-836-2355 to get started!
