Cord Blood Collection – All the Necessary Information

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Cord Blood Collection All the Necessary
Information

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During the pregnancy, the umbilical cord is
connected to you and your baby, well before your
baby is born. In fact, while the baby is
developing in the womb, it gets its essential
nutrients and oxygen from the umbilical cord
blood. 
Earlier, once the babies were born, the
cord-cutting was immediately done and the cord
got treated as a medical waste. With the advent
of cord blood stem cell therapy, however, the
whole scenario has changed. Research has also
indicated that, the cord with the cord blood
consists of stem cells, used for treating various
life-threatening diseases. So, there are banks
who collect and store this cord blood for your
baby health and your familys healthy future.   
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• Read this engaging article to the process of cord
  blood collection  
• Painless and Safe Collection The banks can carry
  out the collection process of the cord blood,
  whether your baby is born vaginally or you might
  have had a C-section. Once the baby is delivered,
  the hospital staffs will cut and clamp the cord a
  few inches apart from the baby and use a sterile
  needle and bag to collect the cord blood.
  However, there are ex utero and in utero methods
  of cord blood collection. While, in the former, a
  syringe is injected in the umbilical cord to
  drain the blood cells, in the latter the medical
  fraternity waits for the placenta to delivered
  before collecting the blood. Since the cord does
  not have nerves, the whole process of cord blood
  collection takes place without causing any pain
  to you and your baby.
• Cord Blood Collection Kit is a must You must
  remember, that a month or two before your
  delivery, the cord blood bank where you signed
  the agreement form, and filled up the
  questionnaire about your family health history,
  had provided you with a Cord Blood Collection
  Kit. This kit has all the important materials to
  complete the process of collection of the cord
  blood.

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• The Amount of Blood Collected The amount of cord
  blood directly depends on the weight of your new
  born. It may be as much as 20 more if the weight
  exceeds 3.2 kgs. In case of caesarean delivery,
  it is a bit more complicated, but the collection
  still takes place. Although The amount collected
  might be smaller. So, generally, a 150 ml bag is
  offered to collect up to 128 ml of cord blood and
  the rest is filled up with anticoagulant. The
  excess might get wasted. But, some cord blood
  banks walk that extra mile for you. They provide
  a 250 ml cord blood collection bag to the
  obstetricians which has the capacity of
  collecting almost 72 blood. That means 215 ml as
  it contains 35 ml anticoagulant (215 128),
  which is almost 90 ml extra.

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To conclude  The entire collection process is
carried out by some of the trained healthcare
providers. They understand that the blood
collected wont last more than 5 minutes. So,
they use the most effective ways while collecting
the cord blood and ensure that bag or container
is properly labelled before sending it to the lab
for processing, testing and new-born cord blood
banking.
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ood-collection-all-the-necessary-information/