Genetic Counseling and Testing

At Fetal Care Center Dallas, patients have the opportunity to meet with a specially trained, board-certified Genetic Counselor to determine if they are at an increased risk of a genetic disease.

What Is Genetic Counseling?

If your baby is at risk of developing a genetic disorder, your doctor may recommend visiting with a genetic counselor. These professionals can help guide you through your high-risk pregnancy journey, particularly if you have questions or concerns about how your medical history may affect your baby. Genetic counselors are medical professionals who hold a… Read more »

What Is Amniocentesis?

If you are pregnant and at increased risk for certain genetic conditions, testing is available for you and your baby to help increase the likelihood of positive outcomes. One of these tests is called an amniocentesis. What Is an Amniocentesis Test? As your baby grows over the nine months of your pregnancy, they are surrounded… Read more »

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The global outbreak and spread of COVID-19 is affecting each of us. At Fetal Care Center Dallas, we are focused on its unique impact on our patients. The safety and well-being of our patients — moms, cardiac and pediatric surgery kids, and unborn children — remain our highest priority.

To keep our patients and staff safe and in alignment with hospital and government mandates, we have made the following changes to our visitor guidelines:

We allow one visitor over the age of 18 to accompany pregnant patients.
We allow two parents/guardians to accompany pediatric patients.
We do not allow any additional visitors or children in our offices at any location.
While we have elected to make masks optional at this time, the hospitals we partner with may require patients to wear masks while in their buildings. Should changes be made per national guidelines, we will update patients directly prior to their visit.

As always, we'll make clinical decisions regarding follow-up appointments on an individual patient basis. Please stay in close touch with us and be assured that our physicians want their patients to come to them as needed with questions and concerns. Working together, we will make it through this challenging time.

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