Samantha Salwasser and her husband, Kyle, made the decision to donate their baby’s cord blood while in the birthing unit of Kaiser Permanente San Leandro Medical Center. She didn’t know at the time that she and her daughter, Sydney, would be making news with Sydney’s delivery.
Emily Velez and her husband, James, were the first to donate their baby’s umbilical cord blood in Piedmont Hospital Atlanta’s public cord blood banking program in partnership with the Cleveland Cord Blood Center.
When Brooke Anderson and her husband, Ryan, were preparing to deliver at Hillcrest Hospital, it was their intention to donate their babies’ cord blood.
Like many expectant parents given the opportunity to donate their baby’s umbilical cord blood to a public cord blood bank, Tonya Beach-Fuller and her husband, Bill, responded with a resounding “yes.”
When their son Nate was born in October 2017, parents Natalie Wallace and Luther Cuffy of San Francisco didn’t hesitate to donate their baby’s umbilical cord blood to a public cord blood bank at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center.
When their daughter, Nora, was born at Hillcrest Hospital in 2015, Lyndsey Bengal and her husband, John, had already planned to donate their baby’s umbilical cord blood to the Cleveland Cord Blood Center, a public cord blood bank.
