The Cord Blood Banking Directory provides education, information and corporate resources for banking umbilical cord blood and the related issues surrounding the process. There are many important factors to consider when deciding whether or not to incur the expense of storing your child's blood. Our directory is design to be a central location for the cord blood banking process.
Educational Resources:
Kids Health for Parents: The primary reason that parents consider banking their newborn's cord blood is because they have a child or close relative with or a family medical history of diseases that can be treated with bone marrow transplants. Some diseases that more commonly involve bone marrow transplants include certain kinds of leukemia or lymphoma, aplastic anemia, severe sickle cell anemia, and severe combined immune deficiency.
The Coriell Institute for Medical Research: In 1988, the first cord blood transplant was performed to treat a young French boy with a bone marrow failure disease called Fanconi anemia. The transplant successfully replaced the boy's diseased blood cells with healthy cells from his newborn sister. He is alive and well today. Since that time, many cord blood transplants, estimated to be at least two thousand procedures world-wide, have been performed.
AAP - American Academy of Pediatrics: Private cord blood banking is storing the baby's cord blood for his/her own future use or use for a family member should the need arise. Alternatively, public cord blood banking, or donating, means that the baby's cord blood is stored in a cord blood bank and is available to anyone in need of a transplant or may be used research purposes.
