Why Should you be amongst the thousands of families who decide to bank their baby’s cord blood?

Banking your baby’s stem cells is the best way to assure that your baby and potentially your entire family has access to stem cells and stem cell therapy should it one day be required. Stem cell therapy may provide your baby, a sibling, or a family member the best chance to beat cancer. Or it may enable your child to regenerate lost heart or brain tissue due to injury or disease. If you are a soon to be parent, it could be your ONE opportunity in this lifetime to ensure the future health of your entire family.

Recent advances in medicine have uncovered that cord blood is rich in stem cells, the same type of cells that create your baby's organs, brain, blood and immune system. Stem cells are the body's building blocks or "master cells". These master cells can develop or differentiate into any type of tissue or organ, including various organs (heart, liver, etc), muscle, blood cells, immune tissue and neural cells (brain, spinal cord).

Stem cells can be used to repair damaged hearts, brains, and spinal cords, heal injury from strokes and heart attacks and minimize and/or potentially cure diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and possibly diabetes. Stem cells collected from your baby's umbilical cord after birth can protect not only your child, but siblings, parents, grandparents and other members of your extended family.

New applications for stem cells are being discovered every day and the potential that stem cells hold for the future is the main reason that many parents decide to bank their baby’s cord blood.