This cozy position, knees to chest, is known as the fetal position. During pregnancy, the fetal position also refers to the direction a fetus faces in the uterus and is especially important as you ...

It can be difficult to decide whether to expedite birth when a woman in the final stage of pregnancy perceives fewer fetal ...

Exposure to ultrasound while pregnant may affect brain development in the fetus, suggests a study on mice. But experts caution that it is too soon to extrapolate the findings to humans. They ...

Fetal Abnormalities: Know The Role Of Ultrasound In Its Early Detection A Fetal Medicine Doctor can give a prognosis depending on the defects' severity.

Baby born with rare 4-pound tumor on her spine Adalida Tyler was born with a rare condition known as sacrococcygeal teratoma.

An ultrasound at 18 weeks gestation showed Santiago Portillo had no skin covering the spinal cord, nerves, muscles or bone of his lower back.

Spina bifida, a spinal cord defect, affects about 1,500 U.S. pregnancies each year. Just this year, surgery to correct this birth defect while the fetus is still in the womb has moved past the ...

It can be difficult to measure the cervix using the same external ultrasound probe that is used to examine the fetal spine, heart, and other anatomic structures.

Surgeons in Los Angeles performed a new type of minimally invasive fetal surgery to reduce harm from severe spina bifida.

Surgeons at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio say a baby girl was born healthy after undergoing the hospital's first-ever fetal surgery for spina bifida. The operation repaired the child's spinal birth ...

Spina bifida, also known as myelomeningocele, occurs when spinal tissue fails to fuse properly during the early stages of pregnancy. The birth defect can lead to a range of lifelong cognitive, ...