OB/GYN has a specialty branch known as Maternal-Fetal Care. This branch of OB/GYN sets a focus on an expectant mother if they have a history of a complicated pregnancy or the doctor suspects them to have a high-risk and complicated pregnancy. This medical specialty diagnoses and treats, the expectant mother and their unborn baby. This doctor provides the appropriate advanced testing and a wide range of pre- and post-natal services during each woman's pregnancy.
Included in our Maternal-Fetal Care are a host of GYN services, such as listed below.
Ultrasounds
CVS
Amniocentesis
Fetal Echocardiography
Saline Infusion Sonohysterograms
Genetic Counseling
Advanced genetic testing
Gestational diabetes management
Pre- and post-natal nutrition services
Our teaching hospital, a trusted healthcare facility in the Gainesville, Texas area, embraces educational concepts and provides continued education through training and mentorship of medical students, resident doctors, and fellows. Our facility provides in-patient and out-patient settings for the expectant mother and their infant.
Our professionals' esteemed team provides guidance and help to expectant mothers before their special needs child's birth.
Our team follows the mother during their pregnancy and during the birth of their baby.
Our professional teams follow the mother and their baby after delivery to ensure they have all they need for a safe recovery at home.
We assist mother and baby in getting all the exceptional help they need at home after their hospital discharge. We help guide them to the right resources for their individualized circumstances.
Our staff of professionals is on call for all the patients we see who need our services. Our Maternal-Fetal Care unit consists of a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist can be any one of the following professionals.
General OB/GYN Doctor
Registered Sonographers who do 3D/4D services have advanced certification in OB/GYN and Fetal Echocardiography.
Genetic Counselors
Gynecologic Surgeons
Registered Dietitians
Gynecologist Doctors
There is no room for error when caring for high-risk pregnancies. We have a skilled team of specialists who frequently meet to discuss each patient's individualized care plan. This team, called our multidisciplinary team, must agree on each patient's care plan for high-risk pregnancies. Having an interdisciplinary care team assures every expectant mother that each professional who sees them provide consistent care in a unified manner.
What is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist?
This specialist, known as a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist or Perinatologists, has advanced knowledge to care for expectant mothers whose pregnancy falls into a high-risk category. The mother's general OB/GYN doctor makes a referral for the mother to this specialist who has had three more years of advanced education in the field of Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
This MFM Doctor may choose to provide the mother with most of their prenatal care and may consult with their primary care doctor, midwife, or general OB/GYN doctor as needed. This doctor may also opt to work with the mother's available OB/GYN doctor, their midwife, primary care physician, neonatologist, or pediatric professionals to ensure they get the highest healthcare available for them and their baby. The goal of all our professionals working together is a safe pregnancy, labor, and delivery for all expectant mothers.
The focus of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist is to keep the mother and fetus healthy at all times. Sometimes, depending on the mother's circumstances, this specialist may call together an intensive care team. The following reasons are why a woman seeks the services of this skilled professional.
If the mother has chronic health conditions involving the heart, lungs, kidneys, digestive system, blood vessels, immune system disorders, seizure history, blood clotting disorders, HIV, Cytomegalovirus, or Parvovirus, to mention a few
If the mother has had multiple miscarriages, early labors, early deliveries
If there are known genetic abnormalities
When there are suspected birth defects
If there are suspected growth restrictions
Caring for and checking the health of multiple births
May be able to correct fetal health issues before birth
Mothers who are seriously injured before giving birth
Mothers who have gestational diabetes or chronic diabetes
If the mother has a history for high blood pressure
Professional Maternal-Fetal Care
If you need a Maternal-Fetal Care Specialist's services, we are here for you and your infant. We are a top-level four trauma center hospital in Gainesville, Texas. Our facility has the latest and most remarkable medical technologies provided anywhere. We have over nine different specialty departments, including a professional Maternal-Fetal Care department. We are devoted to many other causes, including but not limited to Maternal-Fetal Care for high-risk pregnancies and an at-risk fetus.
Access our website for more information. Give us a call today at 940-665-1751 or stop by for a visit. We believe in education and informed decision-making by our patients. We work hard to educate the communities we serve and provide the highest quality of healthcare possible to the patients we serve.
