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# Umbilical cord

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Rochelle from The Saturdays turned her baby's umbilical cord into art, and people are baffled
93% of Irish mothers want hospitals to store their umbilical cord blood
Family will borrow €10,000 to harvest 'life-saving' stem cells for son