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• New Zealand Girl Treated Successfully With Cord Blood

  While I've considered the medicial possibilities of umbilical cord blood, I never thought much about it. We banked our kids' cord blood and of course hope that we'll never have to use it. This story about a little girl from New Zealand illustrates a possible treatment. It sounds like cord blood may have given her a chance at life. Read More... Posted Dec 08 2008, 08:30 AM by Brett Singer with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: children, news, medicine, parents, new zealand, umbilical cord blood, treatment, cord blood, Brett Singer, duke university, medical breakthroughs, auckland, new zealand girl treated with her own cord blood, Maia Friedlander

• Yeah, Save the Babies, But What About Environmental Hazards For Moms?

  I will admit that I did not go fully organic until I was pregnant, and all of the sudden became more conscious of the fact that what I put in my body went directly to the fetus I was boarding. Being a host made me care more about environmental hazards, because it wasn't just my health I was worried about anymore. And this is part of the point one writer makes when she calls attention to crap like phtalates in common products like cosmetics. She points to a small sample study of umbilical cord blood that found, "an average of 287 contaminants in their cord blood... Read More... Posted Feb 05 2008, 08:31 AM by Kelly Mills with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: health, research study, environment, study, chemicals, toxins, fetus, green, MOTHERS Act, cosmetics, plastic, sample, cord blood, phtalates