DONATING FAMILIES

Families share the inspiring stories and insights about their cord blood donation journey.
JAMIE SULLIVAN

Read about the emotional moment when News Anchor, Jamie Sullivan, learned that her son’s cord blood helped save a life.

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JOHN AND JULIE AYLWARD

Read about John and Julie Aylward’s decision to donate their daughter Lucy’s cord blood when they had the chance.

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SAMANTHA SALWASSER

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.

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EMILY VELEZ

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.

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BROOKE ANDERSON

When Brooke Anderson and her husband, Ryan, were preparing to deliver at Hillcrest Hospital, it was their intention to donate their babies’ cord blood.

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REBEKAH DRECHSEL

During prenatal preparations, Rebekah Drechsel asked about cord blood banking.

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TONYA BEACH-FULLER

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.”

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NATALIE WALLACE

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.

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LYNDSEY BENGAL

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.

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