Maternal-fetal care
Maternal-fetal practitioners care for you during pregnancy, labor and after birth. Their priority is ensuring you and your baby are as healthy as possible throughout the entire experience. They also provide specialized high-risk care as well, should you need it.
Maternal fetal medicine in Dallas, Texas
Moms who give birth at Medical City Dallas Hospital can recover with peace of mind knowing Medical City Children's Hospital is on the same campus.
Care for moms and babies with various conditions, such as craniofacial anomalies, is provided at the Maternal Fetal Institute.
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Maternal-fetal conditions treated
Care at the Maternal Fetal Institute starts well before delivery. A multidisciplinary team of expert perinatologists and specialists works together to provide a proper diagnosis and a seamless transition to treatment or pediatric surgery. The maternal-fetal conditions we treat include:
- Abdominal wall defects
- Abnormal heart
- Achondrogenesis
- Achondroplasia
- Agenesis of the cerebellar vermis
- Agenesis of the corpus callosum
- Amniotic band syndrome
- Anencephaly
- Asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy
- Atrial septal defect
- Atrioventricular (AV) canal defect
- Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
- Bilateral cleft lip and palate
- Bowel obstruction
- Bronchogenic cyst
- Bronchogenic cyst
- Cardiac anomalies
- Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation
- Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH)
- Congenital heart defects (CHD)
- Chest mass
- Choledochal cyst
- Choroid plexus cyst
- Chromosomal abnormalities
- Cleft lip and palate
- Clubfoot
- Central nervous system (CNS) malformation
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Congenital aberrations
- Congenital abnormalities
- Congenital kidney disease
- Congenital pulmonary lymphangiectasis
- Conjoined twins
- Craniofacial defects
- Critical aortic valve stenosis
- Cystic adenomatoid malformation
- Cystic hygroma
- Cystic mass
- Dandy Walker malformation
- Diaphragmatic hernia
- Double outlet right ventricle, or DORV
- Down syndrome (trisomy 21)
- Duodenal atresia
- Dwarfism
- Ebstein's anomaly
- Ectopia cordis
- Encephalocele
- Esophageal atresia
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Fetal anomalies
- Fetal ascites
- Fetal malformation
- Gastroschisis
- Heterotaxy
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS)
- Holoprosencephaly
- Hydrocephalus
- Hydrocoele
- Hydronephrosis
- Hydrops
- Meckel-Gruber syndrome
- Megaureter
- Meningocele
- Microcephaly
- Multicystic kidneys
- Multiple anomalies
- Myelomeningocele
- Neural tube defects
- Neurological conditions and disorders
- Omphalocele
- Open neural tube defect (spina bifida)
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Placenta accreta
- Polycystic kidney
- Polyvalvular disease
- Porencephaly
- Prune belly syndrome
- Pulmonary hypoplasia
- Pulmonary stenosis
- Renal agenesis
- Skeletal dysplasia
- Special needs
- Specialty obstetrics referrals
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Transposition of the great arteries (TGA)
- Thalassaemia major
- Thanatophoric dwarfism
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage
- Tricuspid atresia
- Trisomy 13 and trisomy 18
- Truncus arteriosus
- Turner syndrome
- Twin to twin transfusion
- VACTERL associations
- Ventricular septal defect (VSD)
- Ventriculomegaly
About The Maternal Fetal Institute
The health and safety of mothers carrying a baby with a congenital anomaly is our top priority, which is why we created the Maternal Fetal Institute to help parents navigate this trying time.
We are the only North Texas hospital with both a full-service children's hospital and an obstetric hospital within the same facility — keeping mothers and newborns together — even for high-risk pregnancies.
We also house a Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), providing the highest level of care to the most medically fragile infants, and a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) capable of treating the most severely ill pediatric patients. Additionally, Medical City Dallas has achieved a Level IV Maternal Designation — indicating the highest level of care available — from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas also treats neonates, infants, children and adolescents with all forms of congenital and acquired heart disease in our Heart Center. Our Craniofacial Center has treated thousands of patients from all 50 states and more than 75 countries, performing more than 15,000 craniofacial surgical procedures.
Our services
Our compassionate experts provide a range of surgical and non-surgical options for you and your little one.
A routine OB/GYN can take care of the pregnancy, but it takes a special program to care for moms and babies. We work one-on-one with you and your referring physician to develop a customized treatment plan, including total transfer of obstetrical care if needed.
The Medical City Children's Hospital Maternal Fetal Institute provides the customized navigation of care that includes fetal heart surgery, abdominal wall surgery, craniofacial surgery, neurological surgery and orthopedic surgery.
Maternal, pediatric and neonatal transport
Our maternal and pediatric/neonatal transport teams stand ready to bring mother and child to our hospital through ground, helicopter, or airplane transport.
The best place for a baby during pregnancy is the mother's womb. Our experienced maternal transport team, including labor and delivery nurses, provides the best chance of extending pregnancy while moving mom to a higher level of care.
Our team is the only maternal transportation unit in the region exclusively staffed by registered nurses with extensive training in caring for critically ill or injured expectant mothers.
Receiving maternal-fetal care
Medical City Children's Hospital provides critical care to the most vulnerable patients: unborn and newborn babies with complex birth defects. For more information on maternal-fetal care at Medical City Children's Hospital, contact:
- Maternal Care Coordinator: (972) 566-8585
- Neonatal Care Coordinator: (972) 566-3287
To reach the Maternal Fetal Institute at Medical City Children's Hospital, patients or referring physicians can call (972) 566-8585.