the cord blood

just back from lunch with boss and senior. we had an interesting topic during the meal.

it's all about baby thingy! how interesting!

my senior is a happy-baby boy's-father to be in another 3 months time.

so i asked whether he had thinked about the name.

it turns out that they will engage certain professional to calculate the date of birth (time, bla bla and so on) and get a name match to the born period. then my boss said, at KK (kandang kerbau) hospital, there is an office inside providing this service! and apparently there's also some random packet of...errm...to make a caligraphy brush using your baby hair, and ect ect sourvenir thingy.

interesting topic right! probably because i had never heard of things like this from friends of course hahaha

and then boss said, "well, the brush is not that important compare to cordblad"

what?

" cord blood, you know the blood inside the cord connecting the baby and the mother"

@____@ har?

do you know that you can now frost your baby's cord blood and keep it in the blood bank for (well for his both babies,) it cost $1000 for the 1st year (including all the equipments needed to keep the blood) and subsequently few hundred bucks to pay to the blood bank to keep it frozen -4o degrees?

what?

oh well, he said, if -touchwood- the child sticken with blood disease, this cord blood can be the key to the survival. it is still under research, well hope something useful really can come out from it~

yes, this thing is kinda new. he said 4 years ago it was still unheard but nowdays it is almost like common practice already. well, something like...insurance. "just in case"

but to keep this blood, you need to make sure to withdraw certain amount from the cord. if it happen that the cord blood doesn't reach that amount, then..well...you cant keep it. after the collection, this blood will be send to the laboratory for them to...seperate the wanted-and unwanted component for keeping.

hmnn...interesting piece of info!

sure everyday is a new learning day