Our Services

Pre-pregnancy Counselling:

• Recurrent miscarriage and perinatal loss
• Assessment and optimization of treatment for pre-existing medical disorders of pregnancy
• Genetic counselling associated with previous or pre-existing genetic perinatal conditions

Prenatal Diagnosis:

• Antenatal screening for aneuploidy
• Amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling (CVS)
• Ultrasound scanning to exclude congenital anomalies
• Tertiary referral for identified congenital anomalies
• Fetal diagnosis and surgery
• Fetal surgery

Twin Pregnancies.

• First trimester screening and diagnosis.
• Chorionicity assessment.
• Prenatal karyotyping.
• Complications of Monochorionic Twin pregnancies; including twin to twin transfusion syndrome by fetoscopic laser ablation.

Management of Rhesus Disease (maternal red cell and platelet allo-immunization).

• Screening.
• Diagnosis
• Treatment by in-utero, intravascular transfusion.

Obstetric management of babies with congenital abnormalities

The Fetal Medicine Clinic also plays a role in other areas of complex obstetric care at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital and includes input into the following specialist clinics:

• Obstetric Renal Clinic (with Dr Graham Lipkin)
• Obstetric Rheumatology Clinic (with Prof. Caroline Gordon)
• Obstetric Seizure Clinic
• Designated Multiples Clinic
• Cardiology Clinic (with Dr Sara Thorne)
• Obstetric Diabetic Clinic.