When her daughter was born, Natasha decided to donate her umbilical cord blood – two years later, her baby was diagnosed with ...

Natasha Kirkpatrick donated her daughter’s cord blood when she was born in 2017. In 2022, she needed a blood donation of her ...

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A mother who donated umbilical cord blood after giving birth has described how her own daughter's life was saved by a similar ...

In the first few minutes after a baby is born, the baby’s umbilical cord (which carries oxygen and nutrients from the placenta to the growing fetus) is cut and usually discarded. But many people don’t ...

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(WGNTV) — To save or not to save cord blood? The answer is not so simple. For decades, doctors have put the precious resource to good use, most commonly, to treat patients needing a stem cell or bone ...