Thanks to Jennifer Ferniza for this important information. 

Jen is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and mother of  two healthy, beautiful girls.

When I gave birth to our youngest daughter, we had the OB/GYN collect her cord blood. It was one of the best decisions we made. There is a lot of new research using stem cells collected from cord blood that was stored at birth.

One study used stem cells from cord blood to successfully treat Type I diabetes in children. Physicians and scientists were able to regenerate pancreatic cells. Other areas of research include brain injury, cancer and more. I truly believe that now, more than ever, it's important to save cord blood for every child. I only wish I had known to do this with our first. I do not want anyone else to miss out on learning about cord blood banking and the opportunity to save their baby's cord blood, so I'm sending this you and I hope you will forward it to anyone you know who is pregnant or planning ahead to have a baby.

After careful research, we chose to bank with CBR (Cord Blood Registry). This organization is the one my OB-Gyn recommends in her office. Below you will find links to the cord blood website with a special code that links to our daughter, Kyra. New clients are able to get a discount using this link and anyone who banks with CBR using this link counts as a referral gives Kyra credit toward her lifetime storage, reducing the costs.

Here is a letter from another mom who banked with CBR. 

Thanks,

Jennifer Ferniza