Save the Cord Foundation now raising funds on CafeGive

Save the Cord Foundation is dedicated to helping parents making the decision of banking their baby’s cord blood or donate it to help others as simple as possible. By providing unbiased, educational information regarding cord blood preservation and its life-saving qualities. Cord blood is currently being used to treat over 70 diseases (like cancer, immune deficiencies and genetic disorders) and research has shown even more potential (like regenerative medicine). Unfortunately, 97% of cord blood in the US is discarded as medical waste because of lack of education and awareness.

Save the Cord Foundation is working to make the collection of cord blood the standard of care in hospitals throughout the nation and to make public cord blood banks a national priority with the following three goals:

1. Save the Cord Foundation wants to be a clearing house of information for hospitals and other programs looking to start a cord blood donation program. This involves gathering information from hospitals that have already established a successful cord blood collection program and using best practices to help others do the same.
2. Save the Cord Foundation has initiated a pilot program with a hospital in southern Arizona and hopes to expand the program throughout the country. This hospital-based program will provide an on-site health educator, who will be solely dedicated to educating expectant mothers about cord blood and their options for donations, or private banking.
3. Save the Cord Foundation hopes to have legislature in all 50 states mandate that cord blood be collected following each birth and public blood banks that are easily accessible.

Cord blood is the blood left in the umbilical cord and placenta following the birth of the child. It’s a potent and non-controversial source of stem cells. The mother and child are not harmed in the collection of cord blood and the collection does not interfere with the birthing process. Cord blood is becoming the favored source of stem cells used in transplant therapy. It is easy to collect, store and access quickly for transplant. Other advantages of cord blood stem cells include the fact that cord blood is rich, natural, controversy-free (unlike embryonic stem cells – and is backed by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American Academy of Pediatrics, legislatures and religious institutions) source of life-saving stem cells.

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