Comments on: Maia’s Cord Blood Miracle

By: Debbie Simmiss

Debbie Simmiss — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:38 +0000

I wish that this was available when my son was born in 1980, he has Multiple Sclerosis and like all of us it is heart breaking to watch the potential of any human being taken away by something we cannot do anything about,and all we can do is sit and watch our children die. I believe that this sort of treatment should be available to every child/adult if there is a chance to give them a chance at life.Your stories are amazing and I hope my daughter who is having a baby in March reads your stories and decides to take her baby’s cord blood, it is better than an insurance policy. I wish you all the best for your children’s futures.

By: Wen Ji

Wen Ji — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:11:05 +0000

I agree with Sharon’s opinion that we need to give our kids every opportunity for a full life. Our baby will be born in March this year 2012, we just registered with Cord Blood Bank. We believe that all parents want their children to be healthy and happy forever.

By: Sharon Caven

Sharon Caven — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 01:11:54 +0000

Your story and the advancement in cord blood medicine is an inspiration to us, thank you for sharing. My youngest great granddaughter is scheduled to have cord blood reinfusion at Duke in September and as you said there is nothing to lose and we need to give her every oportunity for a full life. Hopefully doctors will learn more and encourage patients to save cord blood at birth and give patients information for help when there is a problem at birth.

By: monique

monique — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:30:25 +0000

thank you so much for telling people about your story. It just gives me so much hope seeing your story, my son does not have CP but he does have a genetic illness called Cystic Fibrosis which I know is being studied with the use of cord blood. I really really hope and pray that one day my son will also experience a cure/improvement in his condition with the use of cord blood. We have saved his younger brothers cord blood and its a half match to my son and so maybe in the future it will help to some degree.
Thank you again
Monique O’Neill

By: kirsten miller

kirsten miller — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:02:23 +0000

hey ya,

i have just been reading the story about the wee nz girl, my son is 17months old and in the last 6months i found out that he had a stroke while i was either carryin him or giving birth, and weve been getting help for it, but he jsut gets so frustrated and watching the nz girl he is the same as her with the hand movement and the lack off momvement its so sad, and its so hard, watching your pride and joy go trough something like that when their is nothng you can do, i would/never be able to afford the treatment for him, so i have no choice but to perserve with the treatment he is getting now
it is so hard to sit back and watch him go through it knowing their is nothing you can do because their is no way you can afford it, and plus when he was born i didnt even know off the blood bank i wish i had off now,
you never expect in your life time when you have children something like this could happen to them and when you find out what else do yoou do but blame yoour self,
my son is my pride and joy and i love him the same jsut wish that i knew off the blood bank and had the money so i could get him the best help ever possible.

maybe it might come to nz and then who knows, but for now, my son is my pride and joy and i will love him all the same, just wish’d i had off known this stuff then and not now.
it is not knowin around the world expicaly around nz i am a young mother and i have never herd off it, only came accross it rhough an email i got from the littles website

By: Francisco Serrano

Francisco Serrano — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:21:36 +0000

Hi, I was moved to read this story in the East Bay Courier and came to the webpage to find out more on umbilical cord and stem cells. It has been especially moving for the past hour to read and see on the internet what is being accomplished, my little and only sister was born in 1976 with cerebral palsy and as I read it felt as I was reading a description of her when we were kids. We were born in Chile but we moved to the USA in 1978 in search for treatment that has been an ongoing part of her life. She continues to live with my parts now back in Chile and they visited NZ earlier this year, where I could see my sister continues to be a child as my own children are today, but with the need of much more supervision.
At this moment I have mixed thoughts of how life could have been for us being born 25 years later, but at the same time how we also continue to pass by opportunities to take precautions in our children’s lives, with my wife we did not save the umbilical cord of any of our 3 children, although we had only heard about this for our youngest in 2006, when he was born.
I believe that as information as this is made more widespread and people understand what they are being able to cure, our family ha witnesses it for 33 years, it makes it inevitable to truthfully consider umbilical cord storage and stem cell research.
I wish to express my dearest join for the Friedlander’s family as they have a new beginning as a family, which for years has been awaited by families prior to them.
My most sincere thanks for sharing these news,

Francisco Serrano