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 ...

A Fetal Medicine Doctor can give a prognosis ... Here the role of ultrasound as a Safe diagnostic modality is definite in detecting ... Incomplete formation of the fetus's brain and spine, ...

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

My patient was 22 years old and midway through her first pregnancy when she arrived for an ultrasound ... the same external ultrasound probe that is used to examine the fetal spine, ...

An ultrasound at 18 weeks gestation showed Santiago Portillo had no skin covering the spinal cord, ... She and her husband Chris Portillo met with a team at the Midwest Fetal Care Center, ...

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.

Cleveland Clinic performs Its First Fetal Surgery To Repair Spina Bifida ... The operation repaired the child's spinal birth defect while she was still in her mother's womb. The team of d.