Cord Blood Reverses Cerebral Palsy in Colorado Girl

Chloe Levine was born seemingly perfect — she was the happy and healthy baby her parents had dreamed of.

But by the time she was 9 months old, Chloe was not reaching the milestones her older sister Shayla had met at that age.

Chloe’s right hand was constantly clenched in a tight fist – she couldn’t even hold her bottle. And she wasn’t able to crawl; she would "shuffle" her body across the floor in a seated position, her mother, Jenny, recalls.

Soon after Chloe’s first birthday, the Levines, who live in Denver, learned their daughter had suffered a stroke in utero and had become afflicted with cerebral palsy.

“A part of me just died,” Jenny Levine said. “At that point there was no cure for her, no treatment other than therapies – speech, physical and occupational therapy for the next 18 years.

The Levines remembered they had banked stem cells from Chloe’s umbilical cord [cord blood] at her birth, and wondered if they could be used to help treat her.

Fox News, November 9, 2009
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