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Our story:
A couple of weeks before the birth of our son my husband mentioned he had heard about some program that stored stem cells retrieved from the umbilical cord. Then at my baby shower (which turned out to be 5 days before the birth) I received the magazine Baby Talk which I was leafing through and came across an advertisement from the above company. We called the company right away. Over night, they sent their packet which we passed on to our midwife not knowing that night we would be needing it. The difficulty in our case was, when Keala Kaj's head come out the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck and had stopped pulsing. He was pulled out immediately and given a few breaths of life. We then tried extracting blood from the cord and placenta but only got a third of what they normally recommend. We decided to go ahead and freeze the 26,000,000 stem cells we extracted as opposed to the 500,000,000 stem cells they normally freeze, because we were assured that this number would still be helpful.