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However, women with high-risk pregnancies often need to be closely watched for potential problems or complications. If a birth defect or inherited disorder runs in your family, the Delaware Center for Maternal and Fetal Medicine of ChristianaCare is prepared to guide you.
Our genetic counselors can help you identify your baby’s potential health risks. Drawing on knowledge gained through specialized graduate degrees and experience in medical genetics and counseling, genetic counselors can help you understand such conditions and review available options.
Appointments with the center are made by referral through your primary obstetrician.
How Can We Help?
Our genetic counselors can serve as an advocate for you and your baby. Additionally, our counselors’ experience in disciplines ranging from biology and nursing to psychology and social work helps them provide supportive counseling, referrals to community and state support services, and insight on medical research.
Most women have healthy pregnancies and their babies are born without difficulties. However, women with high-risk pregnancies often need to be closely watched for potential problems or complications.
If a birth defect or inherited disorder runs in your family, the Delaware Center for Maternal and Fetal Medicine of ChristianaCare is prepared to guide you. Our genetic counselors can help you identify your baby’s potential health risks.
Our Experience
Drawing on knowledge gained through specialized graduate degrees and experience in medical genetics and counseling, genetic counselors can help you understand such conditions and review available options. They also can serve as an advocate for you and your baby.
Additionally, our counselors’ experience in disciplines ranging from biology and nursing to psychology and social work helps them provide supportive counseling, referrals to community and state support services, and insight on medical research.
Delaware Center for Maternal & Fetal Medicine of ChristianaCare
When complications arise, the Delaware Center for Maternal & Fetal Medicine of ChristianaCare gives our smallest patients and their mothers special care. The center’s maternal-fetal medicine specialists, also known as perinatologists, have advanced training and experience to care for you if your pregnancy is high-risk due to medical, surgical or obstetrical factors, including:
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Delaware Center for Maternal & Fetal Medicine of ChristianaCare Inc.
4755 Ogletown-Stanton Road,
Suite 1992,
Newark, DE 19718
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Located on the Christiana Hospital campus, the beautifully designed and landscaped, 200,000-square-foot Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute is a state-of-the-art facility that serves a majority of the cancer patients residing in Delaware. This National Cancer Institute selected Community Cancer Center features advanced medical, surgical and radiation procedures and diagnostic services. The cancer research program includes the Center for Translational Research, a collaborative program with the University of Delaware. The Graham Cancer Center also includes the ChristianaCare Breast Center, an outpatient facility that features the state’s only dedicated breast MRI.
Delaware Center for Maternal & Fetal Medicine of ChristianaCare Inc.
Abby Medical Center,
Suite 312,
1 Centurian Drive,
Newark, DE 19713
Longer wait time for new patients
"lab services"
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Located on the Christiana Hospital campus, the beautifully designed and landscaped, 200,000-square-foot Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute is a state-of-the-art facility that serves a majority of the cancer patients residing in Delaware. This National Cancer Institute selected Community Cancer Center features advanced medical, surgical and radiation procedures and diagnostic services. The cancer research program includes the Center for Translational Research, a collaborative program with the University of Delaware. The Graham Cancer Center also includes the ChristianaCare Breast Center, an outpatient facility that features the state’s only dedicated breast MRI.
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If you are classed as having a high-risk pregnancy, it means that you’ll need extra care throughout the pregnancy to make sure both you and the child remain as healthy and risk-free as possible.
Treatments are available for this common lifelong health condition
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