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Giuliana Rancic Explains Cord Blood Banking: To Help Take Care Of Son's Future Heath

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Sept. 26 2012, Published 5:30 a.m. ET

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By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Celebrity news anchor Giuliana Rancic has stored her newborn’s cord blood – in case her son suffers the same health problems she did.

Giuliana, who fronts the nightly E! News show, has been publicly plagued with fertility and health issues for years including a miscarriage and breast cancer but eventually became a mom at the end of August by a surrogate carrier.

Giuliana and her entrepreneur husband Bill, who won the first series of The Apprentice, said they decided to bank their baby Edward Duke’s cord blood because of all the medical scares they went through and also to alert other new parents to the benefits.

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A baby’s umbilical cord blood can be stored in either a public or private bank and is kept in case it is needed in the future – to help treat blood or immune disorders and even genetic illnesses like cancer.

Giuliana and Bill started trying for a baby in 2009 then after they failed to conceive, started in vitro fertilization the following year.

She became pregnant but miscarried at nine weeks then not l