For Carly and Ben Seligman, banking their two children’s umbilical cord blood felt like investing in medical insurance.
The Calgary couple no longer trust that the potentially life-saving stem cells they have spent thousands of dollars to preserve remain viable or safe.
“Collecting and banking the cord blood felt like this sort of one-time opportunity to leave future medical doors open for your child,” Carly Seligman said in an interview.
“You want to try and give your child every opportunity.”
The Seligmans say they have spent more than $3,900 to store the umbilical cord blood of their two children, now 12 and nine years old,
