Umbilical cord blood donation
Hi ladies,
I saw this on Daybreak this week and though it was fantastci and why has nobody told me about it?!
Apparantly you can donate your umbilical cord blood to be frozen and used to help with things like Lukeimia. It is full of red and white blood cells, platelets and stem cells which are good for regenerative medicine apparently.
It is not at all invasive - they take your placenta and cord away and dispose of it anyway (unless you want to keep it of course) so it seems like a logical thing to do.
Please ask your midwives about this as I will be - we could be helping to save lives.
I saw this on Daybreak this week and though it was fantastci and why has nobody told me about it?!
Apparantly you can donate your umbilical cord blood to be frozen and used to help with things like Lukeimia. It is full of red and white blood cells, platelets and stem cells which are good for regenerative medicine apparently.
It is not at all invasive - they take your placenta and cord away and dispose of it anyway (unless you want to keep it of course) so it seems like a logical thing to do.
Please ask your midwives about this as I will be - we could be helping to save lives.
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theyre against medical science from cells or something? very annoying.