How The Umbilical Cord Blood Is Processed And Stored?

Wow! It's a baby boy! Congratulations! What next? Definitely the mother and the child will go home, but there are some steps in between that you just missed out. Can you guess? Yup! I'm speaking of the process of banking umbilical cord.

Have you heard of cord blood banking? Well, most of you have not. It is the process by which the blood that remains in the umbilical cord after the delivery of the baby is collected and stored for further usage. This process is not at all connected to the delivery of the baby. Neither does it bring any harm to your baby. So, you need not worry about your toddler. Instead, you can secure that blood fry your child's future purposes.

Steps for preserving cord blood stem cells

• First, the cord lining will be gathered by tearing a part of the umbilical cord of your baby. Gathering the umbilical cord is nothing but the cord blood collection of your baby. Next, a segment from your umbilical cord will be cut. This cord blood will be restored in a sterile container as provided in the collection kit.
• The umbilical cord stored is then sent out to the laboratory for conducting several tests in order to sterilize it. It should be kept in mind that the cord blood cells will be used for later purpose. So, they need to be well-tested such that the while using the stem cells do not produce adverse effects. Before this, the umbilical cord is put to verification under several lab tests to reduce the risk of getting contaminated.
• The umbilical cord is then processed by keeping out all the other materials and working only upon the cord lining. The cord lining is then washed out with only wash buffer solution.
• The small particles of umbilical cord lining are shifted to the multiple cryovials to protect the infection by other germs and contaminants.
• Then the cord solution is put to very low temperatures and freezed. This is done to restore the growth of the stem cells of the umbilical cord blood.