Future Health Technologies (Britain's largest private family cord blood stem cell bank) currently (November 2009) charges £1,395 for its standard cord blood collection and storage service.This includes: the collection kit, delivery of the sample, all processing and testing plus an initial storage period of 20 years. As of this month the company are the first private stem cell bank to enable parents to also store cord tissue (this contains the stem cells that can turn into bone, cartilage, muscle and tendon) alongside the cord blood.This costs an additional £495. More information can be found at www.futurehealth.co.uk.The company holds a full unconditional licence from the UK Human Tissue Authority.
My 3 month old mule just had umbilical hernia surgery. He also had an infected umbilical cord. It cost me about $600.00 including his antibiotics. I was not charged to castrate him at the same time. The cost will vary on were you are located.
During prenatal development in mammals, the umbilical cord connects the fetus to the placenta. In humans, the umbilical cord, or birth cord, is about 20 inches long, and is generally clamped and cut at the newborn infant's navel between 1 and 5 minutes after birth.
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well, Some experts think that too much alcohol can actually make the umbilical cord stump stay on longer, which most parents definitely don't want. and its purple because its easy for the cord to come off hope this helps :)
cord blood banks can cost up to $1500
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The belly button is the place where your umbilical cord has been cut. The place heals and eventually what we call the "belly button" forms. The umbilical cord is pretty much a hollow cord that serves as a passageway for the vitamins and minerals from mother to the fetus.
Through the umbilical cord, attached to the mother. the fetus eats what the mother eats... pretty much.
In a sense, yes, the baby does "breathe" through the umbilical cord. The mother does the breathing for the baby and the umbilical cord carries in fresh, oxygenated blood with nutrition in it. The mother eats and breathes for the baby as well as herself.
Umbilical cord avulsion means that the cord has been separated from the placenta proper. Usually this occurs when there is too much tension imparted on the cord during the delivery of the placenta, also known as the third stage of labor. Management would require manual extraction of the placenta, an extremely uncomfortable procedure, to say the least. Avulsion can be avoided with patience as the current guidelines allow up to 30 minutes for delivery of the placenta.
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