CORDBANK - Key Persons
The slightly longer answer is that, after watching my father die a long slow death from Alzheimer's disease, I wanted to find a way to save my future children from this awful degenerative disease.
So, a year later, while I was pregnant, I read about the regenerative power of cord blood stem cells in a US fitness magazine. It made perfect sense to me and there was no downside to saving her cord blood stem cells for her future. I signed up on line with the largest US based cord blood bank and a few days later the collection kit arrived.
Excitement turned to despair as I read the return courier instructions - which said the cord blood stem cells had to be back in the states within 32 hours for processing.