High-Risk Pregnancy Care

If you have a co-existing medical condition, you may also receive high-risk pregnancy care from renowned adult specialists at NewYork-Presbyterian such as cardiologists and cardiac surgeons, neurologists and neurosurgeons, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists, oncologists, urologists, immunologists, and others.

These specialists are all within the same medical center, and we can help you access them immediately before, during, and after childbirth should you or your baby need them. Seamless access to this breadth of specialists is invaluable when expedient treatment can optimize the health of you and your baby.

State-of-the-art facilities

Our patients benefit from state-of-the-art facilities and the most advanced monitoring tools, including ultrasound, fetal echocardiography, Doppler ultrasound, fetal MRI, and genetic sonography to assess the developing fetus; first-trimester screening for Down syndrome, multiple pregnancies, and congenital anomalies; and prenatal diagnosis using amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling (CVS), and fetal blood sampling (cordocentesis).

Specialty programs for mother and baby

We have a wide range of campus-specific specialty programs dedicated to treating high-risk pregnancies:

• The Mothers Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center is working to make pregnancy safe for every mother and child. A first-of-its-kind space, Our maternal-fetal medicine experts are dedicated to providing coordinated care to pregnant women with complex complications, including placenta accreta spectrum, diabetes, heart disease, congenital heart disease, neurologic disease, cancer, or a history of transplant.
• The High-Risk Pregnancy Program within the robust Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center follows patients from preconception through the pregnancy journey, in either consultation or for overall prenatal care, and continues through their postpartum period and beyond.
• The Carmen and John Thain Center for Prenatal Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center is dedicated to helping pregnant women and their families after a significant congenital disability or genetic condition have been detected. We believe that caring for babies with abnormalities starts before birth and continues into childhood with neonatal and long-term pediatric follow-up.
• The Fetal Care Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center is an internationally recognized facility for fetal diagnosis, counseling, and care. The Fetal Care Center employs a multidisciplinary approach to pregnancies complicated with fetal anomalies or other special neonatal needs. An individualized team approach, including maternal-fetal medicine, neonatology, pediatric specialists, and geneticists, is used to work with each family to receive the best care possible.