Cord Blood Blog

Here’s a simple article from the MedicinePlus website; a list of helpful hints for preventing back trouble during pregnancy

US News and World Report issued its study of the best children’s hospitals.  The study is based on two sources of input:  hospital reputation among pediatric specialists and a data-based survey filled out by the hospitals themselves. The report ranks 30 top childrens institutions across 10 sub specialties from cancer to urology. See the full …

We’ve all heard about the dangers to an unborn child of smoking during pregnancy: asthma, ear infections, respiratory problems… A new study out of Finland has found that children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy are 32% more likely to find themselves on psychiatric medication than those whose mothers did not smoke.  In fact, the more …

What a nice, simple, easily understandable one-pager by the government in Nebraska about cord blood banking.  Let’s ask our congresspeople to do the same across the greater 50 states!  It offers all the options, lots of choices from private banking to donating cord blood for research.  A good cheat sheet for conversation on the topic, …

It’s not news that pregnant women should abstain from alchohol.  Evidence of fetal distress syndrome due to extreme alchohol consumption during pregnancy is clear.  So the picture of my mom, pregnant with me, holding a cigarette and a martini is sobering when we look at it today (I’m fine. Really.) On a less humorous note …

A recent article in the LA TImes reports that efforts to curb or eliminate obesity smoking during pregnancy would have an impact on the number of school aged children who suffer from obesity and the diseases that often accompany it. There are already guidelines on weight gain and smoking cessation, but the article reports that coordinated …

Sorry, I don’t want to give you something else to worry about.  Goodness knows, a trip to the doc, a step on the scale, the long ride home without a frappaccino….don’t we have enough on our minds? But I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention this, since it may be more motivating than how we …

It’s a delight to read about intelligent practitioners and other supporters of the possibilities that banking cord blood presents.  This is particularly true when these professionals are objective contributers to the conversation, not paid spokespeople. Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway, M.D was recently inspired by the story of Chloe Levine and her cord blood transplant at Duke …

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland signed into law HB 102 requireing the Ohio Department of Health to place printable information on umbilical cord blood banking and donation on its website. The Department of Health also will encourage health care professionals to provide the information to pregnant women.