I’m 25 weeks pregnant. Now that I have passed the halfway point of my pregnancy, I’m full of thoughts about the future. What happens when I give birth? After I give birth? When it sinks in that we are parents?
Jared and I are considering cord blood banking, which involves the collection of blood from our daughter’s umbilical cord and its storage in a freezer facility. Cord blood is rich in stem cells, which have an almost magical ability to grow into other types of cells. It will come in handy if she ever needed a stem cell transplant. Jared and I would hold the rights to our daughter’s cord blood until she turns 18. After this, she will decide what she wants to do with it.
WideCells Group PLC (LON:WDC) is building an integrated stem cell services company, focused on making stem cell treatments both accessible and affordable.