Your Pregnancy Journey
When you’re expecting, you don’t have to navigate the dos and don’ts alone. Our mom and baby experts provide a wide range of services and treatments during pregnancy, labor and delivery and after your baby is born.
Screening and tests during pregnancy
From fetal and Doppler ultrasounds to blood and glucose tolerance tests, you can expect to undergo certain screenings and procedures to make sure you’re healthy and your baby is developing normally.
Genetic counseling and testing
If you have concerns about passing along a family medical condition or want to have your baby tested for certain birth defects or genetic disorders, you can speak with a genetic counselor or maternal-fetal medicine specialist.
High-risk care
It’s only natural to worry when you’re suddenly in charge of the health of another human being, but most pregnancies go off without a hitch.
If something does happen in those nine months that puts you or your baby at a higher risk for complications, you’ll have access to high-risk pregnancy specialists, additional fetal testing and a neonatal intensive care unit NICU).
What makes a pregnancy high-risk?
Midwifery
Depending on your vision of your pregnancy and childbirth experience, you could see a family practice doctor, OB-GYN or midwife.
What do certified nurse-midwives do?
NICU
Adults have adult intensive care units (ICUs), children have pediatric ICUs and premature or babies with health issues have neonatal ICUs. If your little one needs extra medical attention after birth, he or she will be taken to the NICU to be cared for by neonatologists, nurse practitioners and nurses trained in caring for newborns with special needs.
Learn what to expect when your baby is in the NICU.
Breastfeeding
Breast milk is sometimes called “liquid gold” for good reason: it contains all the nutrients your baby needs for his or her first few months of life.
If you plan to breastfeed, we have lactation experts to help if you run into any challenges.
Read about breastfeeding support.
