Fetal Health

Gene editing can't help human fetuses yet, but it just made a big leap in mice

A promising proof of concept.

Scientists have found air pollution particles in pregnant women’s placentas

This is the first study to show just how close soot can get to the fetus.

A Pregnancy Souvenir: Cells That Are Not Your Own

In recent years, researchers have found many clues suggesting that microchimerism can affect a woman’s health. Tumors may be loaded with fetal cells, for example, suggesting that they might help drive cancer. Yet other studies have suggested that fetal microchimerism protects women against the disease.

Antepartum Evaluation of the Fetus and Fetal Well Being

Despite widespread use of many methods of antenatal testing, limited evidence exists to demonstrate effectiveness at improving perinatal outcomes. An exception is the use of Doppler ultrasound in monitoring high-risk pregnancies thought to be at risk of placental insufficiency.

Fetal Alcohol Disorders Up to 10 Times More Common Than Believed

Up to 10 times more children have disabilities related to fetal alcohol exposure -- drinking during pregnancy -- than previously believed, finds a new study. As many as one in 10 children in some U.S. communities may have some type of disability due to maternal drinking during pregnancy, the research suggests.

New Ways to Monitor Pregnancy in Real Time

It is the least understood human organ with the shortest lifespan: the placenta.

Should You Bring Your Unborn Baby to Work?

Research shows that babies are more sensitive to the prenatal environment than once believed. How should today's stretched-to-the-brink parents respond?

Special tests for monitoring Fetal Health: A Brief Overview

Special testing during pregnancy most often is done when the fetus is at increased risk of problems that could result in pregnancy complications or lead to stillbirth. This can occur in the following situations...

Study Raises New Questions About Fetal Ultrasounds

Research links ultrasounds early in pregnancy to heightened autism symptoms, but experts caution reading too much into it.

The Unexpected Ways a Fetus Is Shaped by a Mother's Environment

Researchers in the increasingly influential field known as fetal origins—the study of how fetal conditions affect long-term health—have to be pretty creative. Running controlled experiments on pregnant women is, after all, verboten.

Unpacking the Connection Between Vaccines and Fetal Tissue

Is it true that the chickenpox vaccine is "derived from" aborted fetal cells?

What happens in the womb affects our health as adults, but girls and boys respond differently

We all know girls and boys are different. These differences include behaviour, DNA, hormones and risk of disease, to name a few. Differences between boys and girls start very early in life, well before the sex-specific organs form.

What Kind of Baby Do You Want?

Prenatal testing has offered up a lot more information—but that information comes with serious ethical questions.

10 Things To Do After a Fetal Diagnosis

Nothing prepares you for the news of a fetal syndrome diagnosis. It is as if your child is drowning, but you are unable to jump in and try and save them. This is a very frightening time with many challenges ahead. You may feel lost, confused, angry, sad, and often hopeless.

Fetal Health Foundation

In 2006 we founded the Fetal Health Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity that provides factual medical information on fetal syndromes, provides unconditional support to families dealing with these syndromes, provides advocacy and awareness around fetal syndromes and provides research grants funding new treatments and technologies providing hope to save our babies.

Maternal Fetal Health

We are a group of expert perinatologists who identify , prevent and treat risks in mothers and fetuses

The Great Candy Run

All proceeds benefit the Fetal Health Foundation.

Mothers over 40

Mothers over 40 is an inspirational, encouraging and positive global resource for older mums...

Sidelines

Sidelines provides support to women during a high-risk pregnancy or premature birth.

Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine

The Society was established in 1977 to give Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) physicians and scientists a place to share knowledge, research and clinical best practices in order to improve care for moms and babies. Maternal-Fetal physicians are obstetricians with additional training in the area of high-risk, complicated pregnancies. We specialize in treating the un-routine.