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Parents may choose to newborn cord blood banking in a private bank for their own later collection or donation, or they may choose to donate the cord blood of their newborn to a public bank where any matching donor can collect it.
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Donate Your Baby’s Cord Blood and Save a Life Best Umbilical Cord Banking in India
Donate Your Baby’s Cord Blood and Save a Life • The umbilical cord connects a developing fetus with the placenta during pregnancy. • The placenta is an organ inside the womb of a pregnant woman. It provides a growing baby with oxygen and nutrients and removes waste products from the blood of the baby. • The cord contains blood vessels that help carry oxygen and blood rich in nutrients to the baby and remove blood from the baby with waste.
Donate Your Baby’s Cord Blood and Save a Life • In recent years, umbilical cord blood banking has become increasingly popular, with a number of companies offering the service, both public and private. • It is a relatively new concept, and its overall value is uncertain and whether it is worth considering for a newborn child. • We are discussing the technology, its implementation, and how and why people have opted for years— or decades — to store this blood.
Donate Your Baby’s Cord Blood and Save a Life • Cord blood banking is the act of preserving blood from the umbilical cord of a newborn baby. • The idea is that if newborn Jane has some cord blood banked by her prudent parents on her behalf and then Jane herself ends up in need of some stem cell therapy later in her life, she won't have to go hunting for a donor. There will be stem cells waiting for use in a transplant.
Donate Your Baby’s Cord Blood and Save a Life • In the fine scale, when you think of freezing from the chemistry perspective, things start to look very different below 0 ° C. • Freezing transforms liquid water into crystalline ice that pulls out of solution liquid water molecules. • This increases the effective concentration of anything that is dissolved in the liquid phase, and you cannot simply go up to any arbitrary level with osmotic concentrations in tissues.
Donate Your Baby’s Cord Blood and Save a Life • For cells, that's not great. Worse, as ice is formed, crystals like needles can puncture and destroy cells. This is part of the damaging cause of frostbite; it destroys the freezing tissue. • Parents may choose to newborn cord blood banking in a private bank for their own later collection or donation, or they may choose to donate the cord blood of their newborn to a public bank where any matching donor can collect it. • These donations are of particular benefit to ethnic minorities, who may find it harder to find matches in the bone marrow donor registry, due to the relatively smaller likelihood that stem cells will cause an immune response in a donor.