Jenny and JD Stephenson banked their baby Weston's umbilical cord blood when he was born.
"We weren't guaranteed to need it for anything," said Jenny Stephenson.
In retrospect they are glad they had banked it. When Weston was ten months old doctors diagnosed him with cerebral palsy. It was devastating for his mother.
"Of course you want the best for him, and you never want anything to be wrong," said Stephenson.
Weston is developmentally delayed and has trouble using his left side. There's no cure but now there's hope, from the toddler's own cord blood. As part of a research study Weston recently got his first infusion.
Duke University Medical Center's Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg is lead researcher in the new study.
"If this is beneficial, it could really change the lives of those...