Delivery Day
Instructions
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Pick Up Your Collection Kit
Pick up a collection kit at Progenics or, if you prefer, a collection kit will be shipped to your home or work once your online registration, over the phone, emailed, mailed or faxed registration is approved. It takes 1-2 business days to courier the kit to you. Normally, there is no charge for shipping a kit.
Open Your Kit
If a kit is shipped to you, open the outer brown cardboard box and take out either the white collection kit or the blue collection kit. The type of kit you receive depends on how the kit will be shipped back to Progenics after the cord blood or cord blood and cord tissue are collected.
Prepare Your Kit
After you open the brown cardboard box, take out the envelope and read the “Instructions for Parents”. Keep the cord blood collection kit (either the white box or blue case) at room temperature (15° to 25°C) and do not freeze or overheat the kit.
Bring Your Kit to the Hospital
Bring the cord blood collection kit to your delivery hospital and give it to your attending labour nurse when you are admitted to the Labour and Delivery Ward (or Birthing Unit). Remember to take the kit out of your luggage if you have placed it inside. Call the designated medical courier when you are admitted to the hospital so that they can have a courier on standby to pick up the cord blood.
If you forget to bring your collection kit to the hospital, please ask your nurse or physician to use an emergency kit (only if your delivery hospital is North York General Hospital or hospitals which have our emergency supplies). For other hospitals in which emergency supplies are not available, please call the designated medical courier at 1- 866-882-8865 to request that they deliver a collection kit to you if they can. On short notice, it is not guaranteed that they will be able to ship the collection kit to you in time before you give birth, and a fee could be charged. Contact us to find out if your hospital carries our Progenics Emergency Kits.