Maternal-Fetal Medicine

From preconception to postpartum, Maternal-Fetal Medicine offers care for families in pregnancy in both high risk and low-risk situations. We work with your Obstetric provider and a variety of other medical specialists to ensure that we identify pregnancies with maternal or fetal complications.  If complications are identified we help to develop a plan of care that is best for the family and optimize outcomes.

We may be asked to see women for:

• Routine pregnancy screening including
  • Ultrasound
  • Genetic screening
• Medical complications in the mother such as
  • Diabetes
  • Hypertension
  • Kidney disease
  • Autoimmune conditions
  • Blood clots
  • Advanced maternal age (age 35 or older on the due date)
• Those with previous pregnancies with complications such as
  • Preeclampsia
  • Preterm labor
  • Cervical insufficiency
  • Pregnancy losses or stillbirth
  • Fetal genetic conditions
  • Birth defects
• Fetal conditions including
  • Chromosomal abnormalities like Down syndrome
  • Birth defects
• Complications in the current pregnancy including
  • Multiple gestations (twins, triplets, or more)
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Gestational Hypertension or Preeclampsia
  • Preterm labor

Services we provide

• Consultation and co-management of pregnancies with complications including care coordination with other medical specialists
• Genetic counseling
• Preconception counseling
• Genetic screening tests
• Screening ultrasound
• Diagnostic ultrasound
• Amniocentesis – diagnostic and therapeutic
• Chorionic villus sampling
• Fetal fluid drainage or shunt placement
• Intrauterine fetal transfusion
• Cervical cerclage