Once you’ve enrolled, a CBR collection kit is mailed directly to you. At birth, the umbilical cord blood and cord tissues (if requested) will be collected by your health care provider and put in ...

The cord blood bank may also send tubes for collecting the mother's blood. If so, the banking kit will have instructions along with blood collection tubes. These don't charge anything for storage.

During her hospital stay for the birth of her last baby Rocky, she packed a cord collection blood kit in her hospital bag. "Umbilical cord blood contains tons of stem cells," she noted ...