{"id":771264,"date":"2026-09-15T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771264\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:48:09","slug":"st-albans-woman-learns-donated-umbilical-cord-saved-childs-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771264\/","title":{"rendered":"St Albans woman learns donated umbilical cord saved child&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Run by the NHS Blood and Transplant service (NHSBT), the bank in Bristol has now issued more than 1,000 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Umbilical cords are rich in stem cells and the cord blood can be donated after birth without impacting baby or mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is cryogenically frozen until a match is found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jade&#8217;s cord was donated in 1996 and transported to Australia in 1998, becoming the first cord blood issued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always known we donated, my mum talks about it. It&#8217;s nice to have been part of the early days,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s done what we wanted the donation to do, save a life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re not going to use it, there&#8217;s nothing you can really do with it, why not donate it to help someone?&#8221; Jade added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Run by the NHS Blood and Transplant service (NHSBT), the bank in Bristol has now issued more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-771264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}