You would have heard about the cord blood banking. Knowing more about this facility becomes more important if you are expectant or planning to conceive a baby. Awareness about cord blood banking is increasing fast. I know many parents, who despite being convinced with the importance of cord blood banking, find it confusing to select the best option out of three – Privately Store, Donate or Discard.

The primary reason for this confusion state is inadequate knowledge about cord blood and the available storing facilities. Most advertisements you see in the magazines and newspaper are primarily focused upon business promotion and just claim for being the best. How much informatory and reliable these advertisements are, you know well. But, you need to take decision well ahead of time that too rightly.

Cord blood is the blood of newborn’s umbilical cord that goes waste when it is cut off after the birth of baby. Cord blood like bone marrow is the very rich source of stem cells that are successfully being used to treat more than 90 serious natured diseases. It can be said that it is a boon to make many complicated medical treatments more dependable and reliable.

Until two decades before, newborn’s umbilical cord was thrown away as useless thing. But after knowing its importance, you wouldn’t opt this option. Now you are left with two options: Privately Storing or Donating at public cord blood bank.

Under Privately Storing option, cord blood cells are preserved exclusively for your personal use. Only you, your family members and siblings can use these cells. While after donating your newborn’s cord blood to public bank, you no longer remain the owner. However, you can get the matching cord blood cells from public cord blood banks. However, uncertainties are there with public cord blood banking. On the other side, complete blood cell collection is available for you. Privately storing of blood cells is comparatively more costly but it offers more reliability. Apart from the cost, selection also depends upon the family medical history and future life plans.

Being pregnant is the unique experience for every woman. Every woman wants to deliver a healthy baby. Parents plan for the entire life of yet to be born baby. The main focus remains upon bringing up arrangements, education, career and saving etc. Very few parents think and plan for the odds in the life of that baby. Providing extra medical cover just from the birth is the sign of smart parents. Cord blood banking is the best way to gift your infant very first time.

It has been proved that cord blood cells have unique medical value that make the treatment of more than 90 life threatening diseases more dependable. Cord blood cells are more reliable and effective if compared with embryonic stem cells. The extra edge of blood cell therapy has been proved for treatments of Cancers, Congenital heart defects, Brain injury, Leukemia Cerebral palsy, Juvenile diabetes, Spinal cord injury, Stroke/Infant stroke, Orthopedic injury and Liver disease etc. Many of these diseases are so common nowadays. It increases the probability of using stored cord blood cells.

It hardly matters whether you opt for Pvt. or public cord blood banking. In both the cases, you make not only the baby safer against deadly diseases but the close relatives too. If you have a medical history of having any of the above mentioned diseases, you must certainly go for it. Even if you don’t have such a medical history, future always stores the chances. If you see cord blood banking a costly affair, you may opt for public cord blood banking. In any case, umbilical cord shouldn’t be let go waste.