Pregnancy after 35
Read about what it means to get pregnant and have a healthy pregnancy in your late 30s or early 40s with insights from Lisa Luther, MD, in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Contact Information
Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care, Suite 4F
55 Fruit Street
Boston,
MA
02114
Phone: 617-724-2229
Fax: 617-724-3498
Mass General Waltham
52 Second Avenue
Suite 400
Waltham, MA 02451
Phone: 781-487-3860
Fax: 781-487-3870
Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care
104 Endicott Street, Suite 304
Danvers, MA 01923
Phone: 978-882-6767
Fax: 978-882-6775
The Maternal-Fetal Medicine Program (MFM) at Massachusetts General Hospital provides obstetric subspecialty care to families with complicated or high-risk pregnancies. Complications in pregnancy can arise for many reasons, including:
Our Maternal-Fetal Medicine providers offer comprehensive obstetric care and can also work in consultation with the patient’s primary obstetric provider to assist in management of specific issues. Our work with other specialists across Mass General to provide interdisciplinary care and expertise is central to our approach. This allows us to provide comprehensive care to women and their families before, during and after pregnancy.
Our subspecialist maternal-fetal physicians have in-depth expertise in all areas of high-risk obstetrics, as well as the skills and experience to treat critically ill women and perform the most complex prenatal and childbirth-related procedures.
We care for women with all kinds of pregnancy complications. Some of the more common conditions we treat are:
Our maternal-fetal medicine subspecialists provide comprehensive or consultative specialty care to families with complicated or “high-risk” pregnancies, whether due to the mother’s medical history, a complication arising in pregnancy, or a fetal complication.
The research of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division addresses a broad range of clinical and translational topics affecting the care of pregnant women.
Our research is carried out in the Deborah Kelly Center and the Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology.
We are committed to providing the highest quality high-risk obstetrical care in a patient-centered environment, while contributing to the academic field through research and teaching.
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mass General has advanced the science and the quality of care for patients since 1891.
We provide state-of-the-art, individualized care.
Mass General is recognized as a top hospital on the U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll for 2023-2024.
The MFM Fellowship provides a broad education in all aspects of maternal-fetal medicine and trains graduates to become leaders in the field..
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