Blood from a baby’s umbilical cord is vital to modern medicine, and there’s not enough of it to go around. Out of the 4 million births in the United States annually, only about 5-10% of those families donate their cord blood.
Erica Hess, Director of Women’s & Children’s Services at Baptist Medical East, believes that percent is so low because not enough people understand how easy it is, how much it’s needed, or what’s valuable about cord blood.
Donating cord blood is a simple process that doesn’t touch the mother or the baby. Another remarkable trait of cord blood is its shelf life. It can be stored for more than 23 years. If you don’t donate it, Hess said the entire umbilical cord would just be discarded, thrown away as medical waste.
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