Collection of cord blood is an essential part of cord blood stem cell banking. The collection kit must be kept handy and you must ensure that your doctor is aware of your decision to bank your baby's cord blood and willing to carry out the procedure
The collection process occurs after your baby is born and the umbilical cord is clamped and cut. The blood can be collected before or after the delivery of the placenta.
Cord blood is collected from the umbilical cord immediately after a baby’s birth, but generally before the placenta is delivered. Cord blood is drawn from the umbilical cord into the blood collection bag that comes in the kit. The mother’s blood will also be collected during this time to be tested for certain infectious diseases as required by regulations. The baby’s cord blood and mother’s blood are then labeled and packaged in the kit box provided.
This process is simple, safe, painless and harmless to both the child and the mother. This procedure can be performed with either vaginal or cesarean section deliveries, and the entire process takes less than 10 minutes after the baby is born.
Once the umbilical cord blood is collected a specified length of 10 to 25 cms of the umbilical cord is cut and collected in the cord tissue collection containers.
Your obstetrician / gynecologist or the hospital staff shall perform the collection. In case you require assistance in the collection process you would need to inform us in advance of the EDD to enable us to depute a paramedic staff for the collection.
Once the blood is collected, the bag is sealed carefully to avoid contamination. The cord blood and cord tissue samples are packed in the collection kit box as the instructions provided and safely dispatched through designated courier service to LifeCell laboratory.
Make sure that the frozen gel packs are placed back in the kit box while sending the collected sample to LifeCell laboratory.
You can call our 24x7x365 customer support to co-ordinate for collection and to clarify your queries on the collection process