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Having had many children, something we thought about during several pregnancies was banking cord blood. I’m sorry to say that we never did take the steps necessary to do this with any of our children. I find myself wishing after the fact that we had done this…you just never know if or when you are going to need or want stem cells banked.

If I had it to do over again another time, I would definitely spend some time researching and getting information about banking cord blood.

The benefits are many…here are a few:

Umbilical cord stem cells are known to treat seventy diseases. This includes leukemia, anemia, lymphoma, diabetes and cerebral palsy, to name only a few. Did you know that approximately 30,000 people in the United States are diagnosed every year with a disease that could be treated with cord blood stem cells? The thought of treating diseases with stem cells is just such an awesome and exciting idea.

By the year 2015 it is predicted that there will be 10,000 cord blood transplants world-wide every year using publicly banked cord blood. This is amazing! The value of cord blood is an exponential thing that really cannot be measured by anything we can use.

Cryo-cell is one of the world’s largest and most established family cord blood banks. They have over 150,000 clients worldwide.

July is Cord Blood Awareness Month. If you have the opportunity to do this for your family, I hope you will consider it.