My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, ...

Since there is no longer a blood supply to nourish it, the umbilical cord stump will begin to dry up and wither away. In one to three weeks (six weeks is Dr. P's record), it will fall off ...

The procedure involves the cells being retrieved from the umbilical cord after birth, stored and then collected to be banked. "It feels like you've got a little back-up there, so if anything does ...

Just when you thought you had seen every type of gender reveal possible, a Brazilian baker dreamed up one more. Taisnara A. Pedruzzi, who owns Taisnara Bolos in Vargem Alta in Brazil, captured the ...

A mum whose friend's death from leukaemia prompted her to bank stem cells from her newborn's umbilical cord has described it as a "back-up" which has brought her reassurance. Natalie Harrop ...