When speaking of life saving and/or basically single alternatives to a disease such as Mounier-Kuhn Syndrome such as lung transplantation, emotions can fly all over the map.
Last fall, our oldest daughter was expecting her new baby, due to arrive this past January. Determined to be of some assistance toward her father any way possible, her emotional thoughts swung her into action, driven to research on the wonderful possibility of saving and banking her newborn baby's blood cord in the hope that perhaps someday, it could be something invaluable in the role of saving her father's life.
When one has only one prognosis, that of a double lung transplant down the road, having to match size and blood type is of utmost importance, but to complicate the matter a bit, also carrying a rare blood type of AB negative, surely becomes quite another medical glitch.
Our daughter felt passionately about certain possibilities for her wee one's undeveloped blood type held within the newborn baby's blood from the cord and how it might just prove to be life giving someday. And then there are two other considerations, those of stem cells and blood plasma from the cord as well should they become a necessity of sorts down the road.
Our daughter felt passionately about certain possibilities for her wee one's undeveloped blood type held within the newborn baby's blood from the cord and how it might just prove to be life giving someday. And then there are two other considerations, those of stem cells and blood plasma from the cord as well should they become a necessity of sorts down the road.
New mothers are often encouraged to save their newborn baby's blood cord at birth, encouraging a new mother (through the standardized practice of some coerced medical peer pressure) to consider placing this mandated step on her birthing plan to alert doctors and medical personnel to proceed with this step shortly after baby is welcomed into the world. Here in Canada, blood cord can be shipped via air flight courier to awaiting staff from blood bank businesses.
For instance, here in the Toronto region, in the event our daughter were to have her baby's blood cord shipped east for her father's usage after baby's birth, it would be couriered to Vancouver airport in the package brought to the birthing room, flown to Toronto, and then picked up by the Toronto Cord Blood Bank, who have staff members run pick-ups at the airport for future cryogenetic storage until further use is required. All for a fee of course.
There are several to choose from in Canada for cord storage, all one has to do is their homework for the best one for their purpose.
There are several to choose from in Canada for cord storage, all one has to do is their homework for the best one for their purpose.
We asked the transplant surgeon his opinion on our daughter's hopeful gifted option last October, and queried how it might benefit my husband's medical journey ahead. Since it is such a cutting edge procedure still at this time, he wasn't sure just how it could be of use during such a lifegiving operation, perhaps time will tell. He just wasn't sure yet.
In the meantime, babies are continually being born each and every day.
How many new mothers might think to offer their baby's cord blood to someone else for future possibilities?
How many are simply thrown in the garbage can when they might save lives instead?
"The birth of your baby grants your family a unique opportunity to collect and store Umbilical Cord Blood & Peristem Tissue Stem Cells. These precious stem cells are the fundamental building blocks of the organs and tissue of the body and have great therapeutic potential
(Over 28 disease can benefit from cord blood banking, especially bone marrow transplantation.)
Here is a thought provoking article below, a live link (just click on it to be brought to the article) to read for further research entitled;
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