Banking on the future
6th November 2012
By Guest Writer
Maia was four years old the first time she was able to look her father directly in the eye and hug him. It was a moment her parents dared not expect, and yet one they had banked on.
Deprived of oxygen at birth, Maia suffered a range of cerebral palsy-like symptoms, which years of therapy did little to
help. But in 2008, her parents Daniel and Jillian Friedlander heard about a US pilot study treating cerebral palsy with autologous cord blood infusions and they enrolled their daughter.
In August of that year, Jillian travelled with her daughter to