When Kylie was born Tiffany and I had the option to save her umbilical cord blood in an umbilical cord blood bank.

Umbilical cord blood – collected at birth – contains stem cells, which have the potential to become any kind of cell. Because they are an exact match to the person they are collected from, they are used to “reboot” immune systems after cancer treatment. Experimental treatments are also using stem cells to treat a range of inherited disorders, type-1 diabetes and brain injuries.

And while we discussed having this done, as we both thought it was a good idea, unfortunetly at the time we did not have the money. The possabilities of the uses of cord blood and the stem cells are numerous, and personally I am and have been a supporter of stem cell research, and here is a good example of why. Today I found this article which illistrates just one of the many possabilities for both cord blood and stem cells. The story is an amazing one of a childs second chance at life due to a cord blood transfusion.