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. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT FAMILY STORAGE 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. CLICK HERE TO VISIT BECOME MY HERO'S WEBSITE 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. Newborn Heroes is a completely free service that allows to-be-parents to donate their cord blood to our public inventory. The donated cord blood is then HLA typed, the results put into a global cord blood registry and the stored cord blood made available to anyone needing a stem cell transplant. Thousands of people will die unless someone gives them this gift of life. One such person is Seun Adebiyi, a 26 year old, recent Yale Law School graduate who is one step away from becoming Nigeria's first Winter Olympian. Newborn Heroes is helping Seun and others like him to have a second chance at life. Please listen to his story and learn why cord blood donation is so important. Cord blood offers some great advantages over bone marrow. These are important for anyone needing a stem cell transplant, but especially useful for people of mixed heritage and minorities, including: ........"More to Live For" - A Preview by Noah Hutton of Couple 3 Films........ It doesn’t have to be as perfectly matched to be used in a transplant. It demonstrates a much less active graft versus host response and much fewer transplant related deaths. At least 1 out of every 3 people born in many major American cities is mixed heritage or minority. Most umbilical cords are discarded with the medical waste after the baby of a baby. Most people would rather donate their baby's cord blood to us than have it thrown away. CLICK HERE FOR A LIST OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS AND DISEASES THAT CAN BE TREATED WITH CORD BLOOD DOWNLOAD OUR NEWBORN HEROES PUBLIC DONATION BROCHURE SEE OUR ENROLLMENT PROCESS FOR PUBLIC CORD DONATION