As your baby’s due date approaches, you should consider Placenta•Cord™ banking and all of the options available for the collection of umbilical cord blood and the placenta. Give yourself plenty of time to consider your options. To allow enough time for the cord blood and placenta collection kit to arrive, we recommend you make a choice at least four weeks before your due date. Remember, placental stem cell banking is a new service that is available first from LifebankUSA™. And, Placenta•Cord banking is available only from LifebankUSA.
If you do not make arrangements in advance for the collection of your baby’s umbilical cord blood and the placenta these valuable stem cells will be discarded and their life-saving potential will be lost forever. The only time to collect the placenta and umbilical cord blood is at the time of birth.
You may choose to store your baby’s stem cells for your own family’s use. Finding a suitable match from public registries can be difficult and can often take precious months. However, when you bank your baby’s stem cells, no searching is necessary—they will be available when you need them. In addition, the transplant success rate from related transplant donors is double that from unrelated donors. [1] So by banking your baby’s placental and cord blood stem cells, you’re giving your baby and your family a greater variety of potential treatment options if a serious disease ever strikes your family.
Enrolling with LifebankUSA™ is easy and can be done by calling 1-877-543-3226 or by visiting our online enrollment form . To view a brief presentation on the steps you should follow for the successful collection of umbilical cord blood, please visit LifebankUSA’s Collection Process Overview.
Simply complete the Maternal Health Screening Questionnaire, Family Medical History Questionnaire and Consent Forms. Return them to LifebankUSA by mail or by fax at least 3 weeks before your due date. Our client services representatives will review the information and give you a call to answer any questions you might have. Eligible donors will receive a collection kit in the mail, which the doctor or other health care provider will use to perform the collection of umbilical cord blood and the placenta.
Please call LifebankUSA at 1-877-543-3226 today for more information about private banking.
[1] Gluckman E, Rocha V, Boyer-Chammond A, et al. Outcomes of cord blood transplantation from related and unrelated donors. N Engl J Med. 1997;337:373-381.
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