7 Step Guide To How Cord Blood Banking Works

Cord blood stem cell banking is becoming popular with every passing day! Not all chronic ailments have a definite treatment. Parents and families in order to secure the lives of their children and other family members today have been counting on cord blood storing. This is because popular research and case studies highlight that cord blood stem cells have cured over 80 ailments that range from cancerous diseases, ailments like sickle cell disease, diabetes and other blood and immunological diseases. 

But not everyone is aware of the steps which are essential to the cord blood banking process. Here are simple 7 steps to guide you about the process. 

Step 1- Enrolment or Sign-Up:

This is the first and initial step for securing the cord blood stem cell of your baby! So, this is something that you need to do prior to your delivery date. After you have decided on the cord blood bank to join hands with, you can simply enrol online or by placing a request through a call. Once your enrolment process is sanctioned, you will be given a collection kit and other necessary guidelines from the bank for your ease. 

Step 2- Your child’s birth:

The day of your delivery make sure you carry the collection kit to the hospital. This kit has everything that the healthcare provider requires to collect your little one’s cord blood following all the relevant instructions. Every kit comprises of a compact reference guide that has the answers to any collection related query about the baby’s cord blood. 

Step 3- Collecting the new-borns cord blood:

Once the baby is born, it will take only a couple of minutes to collect the blood in the collection kit by the healthcare provider. The process is painless, non-intrusive and fast. It usually takes not more than 10 minutes to execute the process. And this doesn’t affect the delivery process in any way. 

Step 4-Delivering your baby’s cord blood:

The moment the process of cord blood collection is over, it gets completely sealed and secured in a mailing container. Once you give a call to your concerned cord blood bank, the bank will arrange for a pick-up facility of the cord blood sample from the hospital. The duty will be assigned to a medical courier that will complete the collection process and have the same delivered to the laboratory within a maximum of 48 hours. Once the sample arrives at the laboratory, you will get a notification from the cord blood bank’s customer care representative. 

Step 5 – Getting the sample processed in the laboratory:

The moment the cord blood reaches the laboratory, it is then sent to a state-of-the-art processing unit. Here this sample gets tested for all kinds of cell count and viability. Post this the sample gets frozen cryogenically when all the testing procedures are over. This testing comprises of detecting of any infectious ailments in the maternal blood sample. 

Step 6 – The step for long term security and storage:

Once the processes are over, the cord blood sample is safe and sound in the cord blood units of the bank. The sample is stored individually with all necessary markings so that there’s no scope of mixing up the samples. The bank protects this sample round the clock with electronic monitoring equipments and other measures to justify the monetary investment made by families. 

Step 7 – Paying the monthly charge:

Now that most of the steps are complete, all you have to do going forward is pay the monthly charges for the maintenance and preservation. 

These are the 7 steps that briefly explain the steps to cord blood stem cell banking process. Now that you know you can go ahead and apply for the same. 

Taking this step towards caring for your child by investing in Cord Blood Banking is massive. To know more, speak to a Cordlife expert today or log on to our website – www.cordlifeindia.com.