Life is meant to be lived, and enjoyed as long as we possibly can. Hopefully we can remain relatively healthy and active while doing so.  Throughout medical history there have been many advances to help us live longer, healthier lives.  The changes in medicine have brought about cures for ravishing diseases, medical procedures that fix physical ailments and medicines and therapies that help people live the fullest lives they can, there have been radical changes in how surgery is performed, how invasive it is, and of course the overall success rate of surgery and other medical procedures is an incredible number that further cements our faith in our doctors and medical scholars.

Today we have the option of helping the medical field by banking the cord blood of our newborn children.  When you bank your child’s cord blood, you could possibly be saving their life, or the life of a sibling, or even that of a grandparent if that is where you choose for your child’s cord blood to go. Today there are over 70 known diseases that can be treated with cord blood, and with more medical advancement on the horizon there will undoubtedly be many more to come. 

Collecting the cord blood is painless to you and your newborn as it stored in the umbilical cord and placenta.  What you are collecting are the stem cells that are 100% match for your baby, they will be stored safely in a cryogenic state; so if the need should arise that your child or another family member to utilize the medical properties of the stem cells, you will have them when you need them.  Every day we count on the people in the field of medicine to take care of us, tell us what is wrong, and to make us better.  You can help them to help your child or other family members by banking your child’s cord blood.

True, there may never come a time that your family will utilize the banked cord blood, and in all honesty that is what every one hopes for, but in reality, that is not the case and having the added protection of the cord blood you bank can make all the difference in the world.  Education and medical advancement are the very reason that we live as long as we do.  Educate yourself on umbilical stem cells and the benefits that we know of today, and imagine what tomorrow can bring.

About the Author

If it weren’t for the marvels of medicine and the curiosity of man, or expected life span would be somewhere around 45, and that just doesn’t seem like enough time to live for me.  There is nothing wrong with being prepared for the future, and banking cordblood, to me, is better than having a million dollars in the bank.  Cord blood storage is an investment into the future. I am Tegan Dawn, I am here to tell you that life is an investment worth making.