As a mother-to-be, I am inundated with advertising in magazines, parenting websites and even maternity stores to bank my baby's umbilical cord blood. I don't know how long this has been around... maybe a few years? Five? Anyway, for those of you who don't know, the stem cells in the baby's umbilical cord can be "banked" on the chance that at some point your child will develop some disease or illness and then these cells can be used in treatment. Other options for cord blood include donating for research to help find cures.
(By the way ~ for those of you who are against stem cell research, the umbilical stem cells offer a non-controversial way of obtaining the cells. So you might want to re-think in which cases you might approve of this type of research, since this doesn't involve the embryos.)
I don't know yet if Guy and I will choose to bank the cord blood or not... that really isn't the point of my post here tonight :) Bear with me... I am getting to it!
In my nightly trip around the internet, I came across the video "Ten Americans" from the Environmental Working Group .
Well, I certainly learned something new and I hope you all did too! In all the talk about umbilical cord blood, I never have heard, read or would have expected that that many chemicals and toxins would have been found. Even scarier, if its in the umbilical cord blood, guess what ~~ its in my baby too!
We need to wake up and start taking care of our environment, ourselves and our children's futures! Please pass along the link to the video and support the Kid-Safe Act to the update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 - http://www.ewg.org/kidsafe.
not to dispute what the spokesman for the EWG says nor what they have tested for BUT do they have a baseline for these chemicals? explorers have found in recent years people and animals that have been frozen in ice, petrified in caves etc. i would be VERY interested in seeing what toxic chemicals can be found in these once living artifacts. what toxic chemicals can be found that did not exist when these people or animals lived on the earth. my point is DONT believe everything you see read or hear!
ReplyDeleteWell, I suppose there is more research available on the EWG website. The point that hits home for me is that we are passing along these toxins to future generations through our blood.
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