Your decision could change a life

With a little bit of planning, you could change someone’s life: you could donate your baby’s umbilical cord blood to a public bank at no cost to you. Umbilical cord blood is rich with blood-forming cells*, cells that are no longer needed by your baby after delivery. But these cells may be needed by someone else — someone with a life-threatening disease like leukemia or lymphoma who needs a transplant to survive. Share life. Donate cord blood.

How to donate cord blood to a public bank

Thank you for considering a donation of cord blood. The lifeline your baby needs now could one day serve as a lifeline for someone else. By following the steps below, you could donate to the National Marrow Donor Program’s Network of public cord blood banks, which is helping patients in need every day.

Other useful links

http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Donate_Cord_Blood_Share_Life/How_to_Donate_Cord_Blood/CB_Participating_Hospitals/nmdp_cord_blood_hospitals.pl

http://lifeformanish.com/blogger.html

http://www.cryo-intl.com/enroll/donating/

ADVANTAGES TO CORD BLOOD DONATION:
No risks involved
No effort involved
It does not need any processing from the donors part
Your personal information is not stored in any database
Does not take any additional time to donate and done at the time of delivery.
Cells can be stored for a long time and used anytime in future for a transplant.
Tissue (CORD BLOOD) is collected and stored at the time of delivery and readily available when we find the match. (Do not need to depend on a donor to be contacted and called in to donate).
No matter which cord bank it is stored in, it belongs in the NMDP database and can be utilized anywhere in the country.