PUBLIC DONATION - NEWBORN HEROES
We believe anyone having a mixed heritage or minority child should bank their cord blood privately if they can afford to do, and have made this option affordable for most families. The fact is that it is nearly impossible to very difficult to find a perfectly matched bone marrow donor in a public registry for our community. Privately banking your baby's cord blood, therefore, protects not on your baby but perhaps your other children, spouse and you in case of a future medical need. Our founders' own experience speaks volumes about the truth behind this philosophy.
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It is, however, very admirable to want to provide your cord blood to help someone who is in immediate need. Natasha's Place creates a win-win situation for such families by allowing them to bank their cord blood privately, providing them with the HLA haplotype of their baby's cord blood and HLA haplotying their family members so that the client knows if the cord blood matches others in the family. The only person that has this confiential information is you and us. We then work with our sister organization, Become My Hero, who searches for cord blood donors for people in imminent danger of dying because they don't have a donor in a public registry.
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Become My Hero provides us with the HLA haplotype they are looking for and we will contact those clients that are part of our "Give Life Twice" program to let them know that their stored unit is a match. The client would then have the choice of donating it to someone who definitely needs it to survive. We believe this is a better alternative for those that are torn between private and public donation than usually available. |