The Life Blood Project

The Life Blood Project (Logo by Erin Chambers) We are a campaign dedicated to making collections of cord blood automatic within Ontario and, later, Canada.

Welcome to the Life Blood Project. (Logo by Erin Chambers)

We are a campaign dedicated to making donations of umbilical cord and placental blood -- an easy and reliable source of both blood and life saving stem cells -- to be put under "presumed consent" rather than "opt in" within Ontario and hopefully the rest of Canada. This page will contain information about cord and placental blood, statistics, and how you can join or help the campaign within Ontario or Canada. Please feel free to like and share the page and help however you can.

04/26/2024

Okay, we need some help getting in contact with hospitals and bloodbanks. Anyone have connections?

02/21/2024

Time to contact Canadian Blood Services to see if we can get the petition up in their donation areas!

01/01/2024

Happy New Year everyone!

This year it is our hope to boot up the Project again! More posts later today to follow!

03/19/2022

Don't worry folks, the Life Blood Project is still active. We just thought it may be best to put the project on pause during the pandemic to give health care workers the time and space they need to deal with that. Now that things are calming down, we may start getting more active this year.
As always, please contact us if you would like to help spread the word or help is get signatures for the petition!

Life Blood Project is back on track after all the pandemic stuff.Been contacting hospitals/maternity units in the area t...
07/30/2021

Life Blood Project is back on track after all the pandemic stuff.
Been contacting hospitals/maternity units in the area to tell them about the project and see if they're interested in copies of the petition.

If you would like to help, if you know any doctors or nurses, please let them know about the project and encourage them to contact us.

Life Blood Project's New Years Resolution: get all the hospitals in Ottawa on board with the petitions!Think we can do i...
12/30/2020

Life Blood Project's New Years Resolution: get all the hospitals in Ottawa on board with the petitions!

Think we can do it? Got a bigger challenge for us? Comment below

Alright everyone, we could use your help with getting this campaign reaching other hospitals in Ottawa and Ontario. So f...
12/10/2020

Alright everyone, we could use your help with getting this campaign reaching other hospitals in Ottawa and Ontario. So far we have the Queensway Carleton maternity unit, but we'd also like to get the Civic and General on board with us by the end of January at least.

So, can we please share this as much as possible and tag any friends or family you know who work in hospitals (any at all, but especially birth units)

FOR THOSE WHO WERE TAGGED: please come read our page and get in contact with us. We'd love your help getting into contact with your head of maternity to tell them about the project and get petitions started in their units!

Want to know some ways you can help?1. Spread the word! The more people who know about the campaign the better.2. Help u...
12/02/2020

Want to know some ways you can help?
1. Spread the word! The more people who know about the campaign the better.
2. Help us get signatures! Email us for a copy of the petition. The more we get the more likely the Ontario Legislative Assembly will be to change things.
3. Keep informed!
4. Help us reach more hospitals and doctors! Know someone who works in a hospital in Ottawa/Ontario (especially maternity)? Or a doctors office? Inform them of the campaign and ask them to contact us for forms and info!
5. Start your own campaign in other provinces! The more provinces in Canada we get on board with this the more likely we can make "presumed concent" Canada wide! We can even help you with the research!

12/02/2020

Canada is in high demand of blood donations, and there is a wasted resource for blood and stem supply in the umbilical cords and placentas of newborns. At this time, patients must know about and register to donate in the early stages of pregnancy, and if they don’t the cord and placenta from the birth is discarded. Each day in Canada, roughly one thousand twenty-seven babies are born -- three hundred ninety-one in Ontario. Each cord and placenta holds an estimated 100-250 millilitres of blood. This means that at minimum thirty-nine litres or just over eighty units of blood are being discarded as medical waste. Eighty units in Ontario per day alone that could be going to the blood banks or to stem cell research. This needs to change.
The way to change this would be to place cord and placenta blood donation under ‘Presumed Consent’, offering the option to ‘opt out’ rather than ‘opt in’. At this time, patients must fill out the registration and consent forms before their eighth week, must be giving birth at one of the only four hospitals in Canada -- two of which are in Ontario, must be giving birth during that hospital’s cord blood bank’s hours of operation, and must be sure to give secondary consent before leaving the hospital. This is a lot of hoops to jump through, but Presumed Consent could lead to more birthing units being equipped to take cord blood donations, more blood and stem cell donations being collected, more units of blood being collected for our blood banks, and more research being able to be done on cord blood.

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