Private Cord Blood Banking Could Save Your Child's Life!

Private cord blood banking MUST be a consideration if you are pregnant now or are considering starting a family in the future! Please think strongly about collecting your baby's umbilical cord blood!

What if someone in your family gets sick but could be cured by cord blood??

Currently, we can treat 80 diseases and the list grows daily!! We are also learning to treat:

• Sickle Cell Disease
• Aplastic Anemia (which is deadly)
• Leukemias and Lymphomas

Doctors can treat many other diseases as well:

• Chronic Active Epstein Barr (causes chronic fatigue syndrome)
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Systemic Lupus Erythermatosus
• Rheumatoid Arthritis

Cancers are even being defeated now:

• Brain Tumors
• Ovarian Cancer (will be discussed here later)
• Testicular Cancer
• Small-cell Lung Cancer

Plus, currently under investigation are:

• Juvenile Diabetes
• Heart Disease
• Brain injury
• Alzheimer's

Imagine being able to CURE heart disease!!

The possibilities of being able to treat diseases that are killers gives me goose bumps!!! I am extremely passionate about private cord blood banking!! NOTHING can replace the stem cells that cord blood provides.

What are stem cells, you ask? Basically, they are cells that have the capability to turn into any cell type we have in our body. That means we can make a stem cell be any cell needed to treat and possibly cure disease.

What is private cord blood banking?

It means when you save your baby's cord blood, it will be used ONLY for your family. It is always there, ready for the family member that needs treatment.

This is compared to "public" cord banking which means the cord blood is donated for anybody in society to use. Even if you needed it later, it wouldn't necessarily be available for you.

Public banking is a great concept,however, there are only a handful of areas that have established a good public system.

Donating to a public system (if available in your area) is certainly better than throwing the cord blood away!

But why do I feel so strongly about private cord blood banking? Especially when it costs so much--and I will address cost here.

Private cord blood banking allows you access to your blood when you need it.

One of my biggest regrets in life is that I did not have the foresight to save my own children's cord blood! I regret it everyday. At the time my children were born, only 2 diseases were being treated neither of which ran in my family.

I never want another family to miss out on making the choice to save their child's umbilical cord blood!! But what are the chances that you would even use cord blood?

Right now, your child's lifetime risk of using the stem cells is 1 in 200. But remember, as we learn to treat more and more diseases, the risk of needing cord blood increases.

What if, one day soon, we can treat heart muscle that has been damaged by a heart attack (heart disease)? Then your lifetime risk of needing cord blood stem cells would be 1 in 2!!

Please, strongly consider saving your baby's umbilical cord blood to private banking!! You might regret later if you miss this ONE time opportunity.

Remember, we just throw the cord blood away if it isn't collected for private banking or donated to a public system.

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