Sentences with phrase «stored umbilical cord blood»

The good news is that a baby's stored umbilical cord blood stem cells can be used not only for the child but also for a close family member if ever needed.

Billing themselves as providing a «potentially healing resource for your family's future,» for example, private banks mail parents - to - be cord blood collection kits to have on hand during delivery, and then store umbilical cord blood samples for exclusive use by the donating family, should a family member ever need it.

Today, many expectant mothers are asked about umbilical cord banking — the process of storing umbilical cord blood after giving birth.

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If you have registered to have your baby's umbilical cord blood collected, then don't forget to notify your cord blood bank as soon as the baby is born and tell your caregivers to store the placenta until it has been collected.

This means that they will take the umbilical cord blood stem cells and store them for future use in medical emergencies.

Instead of tossing it aside, some doctors, scientists and parents are choosing to bank this fetal blood — harvesting it from the baby's umbilical cord and placenta, freezing it and storing it away for later.

But the factor that may make the discovery very significant is that umbilical cord blood can be saved, stored and multiplied without any of the ethical dilemmas facing embryonic stem cell use, which are derived from human fetuses.

At birth, the vitamin D levels in the mother's blood are correlated closely with those in the blood of the baby's umbilical cord.10, 11 The mother must therefore maintain optimal levels of vitamin D during pregnancy in order for the newborn to begin life with optimal stores of vitamin D.