The Decision For Cord Blood Storage Is Easy

When you first start your prenatal care you doctor may or may not discuss cord blood storage, and it may be up to you entirely to start the discussion. If your family has a genetic predisposition to certain diseases and cancers, banking your newborns cord blood could be the most important decision you will ever make. True you may never need to call upon the stem cells, but it is an added form of life insurance policy that may prove one day to be worth more to you than millions of dollars ever could be. The stem cells found in the newborns cordblood can be used to not only protect your newest addition to the family, but they are compatible with you, your spouse, and their other siblings. Cord blood storage may ultimately save the life of one of your parents.

Before discovering the life saving potential of cordblood, doctors routinely treated it like the byproducts of birth and discarded it. Today it is becoming more and more common for doctors to recommend storing it. Collecting cord blood from a newborn is a completely non invasive maneuver that just requires the medical team to put it in a storage container provided by FamilyCord immediately after birth. The baby does not have to be bothered in any way to collect the cord blood because it is done after the umbilical cord is cut using FamilyCord’s patented collection kit which is considered one of the safest in the industry.

Of course, because the cord blood is extracted from the umbilical cord it is important to have made your decision prior to birth and to be prepared with the collection kit. The physician as well as the nurse needs to be aware of your decision to bank your newborn’s cordblood, and you need to have the collection kit available to medical staff when you arrive at the hospital. Once the collection is taken, you call for pick up and within 2 hours a courier will be there to get your special package delivered and processed immediately.

FamilyCord also offers different payment options for storage with storage times being anywhere from a year and beyond, and FamilyCord is the first and only the only private cord banking facility that offers a public donation option in the future. The public donation option is a great way to help another family in the future. Although families with a predisposition to certain genetic diseases may opt for cordblood storage more than a family that may not, the future uses of stem cells have not all be recognized, and what might not seem to be too important today, may indeed be important to you in the future. Storing your cord blood is an easy, affordable way to offer protection for your baby and family for many years down the road. The decision for cord blood storage is easy; it finding the right cord blood storage facility is what matters.