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Leading and specialized fetal care.

By integrating the best of MUSC Women’s Health and MUSC Children's Hospital programs, our Advanced Fetal Care Center has been designed to deliver the highest quality of care and patient-centered experiences, including early pediatric sub-specialty evaluations, multidisciplinary treatment, personal counseling and support, and seamless care transitions from prenatal to postnatal life.

Our medical expertise runs both deep and broad at MUSC Women’s Health. Some of the conditions treated by our Advanced Fetal Care Center include chest abnormalities, cardiac defects, gastrointestinal disorders, renal and urological disorders, neurologic problems, fetal tumors, genetic abnormalities, and complications of multiple gestation pregnancies.

Should complications surface during your delivery, we have the leading maternal fetal medicine doctors and pediatric specialists available through our Advanced Fetal Care Center.

Find pregnancy and maternity care near you.   

MUSC Children's Health Advanced Fetal Care at Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital

Address
10 McClennan Banks Dr
Floor 1
Charleston, SC 29425
Hours
Specialties
  • Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Innovative care and caring.

We're Baby Friendly®! We’re committed to upholding the highest standards of care for your little one, and we have the designation to prove it! Enabling rooming in with your baby and breastfeeding within one hour of birth are just a few aspects of this important initiative by the World Health Organization and UNICEF.

Adapting to your life and needs.

The MUSC Women’s Health comprehensive pregnancy team aims to provide that every woman has the personalized quality care that she deserves. Recently, when a woman whose husband was serving in the military overseas, the MUSC team shared the birth of their child via Facetime.

Babyscripts myJourney

As part of your pregnancy journey with MUSC Women's Health, you will have access to Babyscripts myJourney, a mobile app with resources to guide you through your pregnancy with MUSC Women's Health-specific information, as well as general pregnancy information. Your care team will discuss the app and some of the most frequently used resources with you at your initial appointments.

Mother-baby suites

Our patients value delivery in our mother-baby suites. The suites are Baby-Friendly-designated showing that our hospital and birthing center offer the greatest level of care for infant feeding and mother/baby bonding.

Our collaborative care: specialists and services

  • Gynecologists
  • Obstetricians
  • Psychiatrists
  • Urogynecology and Incontinence Specialists
  • Maternal Health Specialists
  • Physician Assistants
  • Certified Midwives
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Lactation Consultants

  • Leading maternal health specialists and the state’s only pediatric Level 4 NICU
  • Preconception Counseling
  • Centering Pregnancy® groups
  • Natural, unmedicated childbirth
  • Vaginal birth after cesarean
  • Perinatal education classes
  • Family-centered birth plan at our Baby Friendly designated hospital
  • Adolescent pregnancy
  • Genetic counseling
  • Prenatal screening and diagnosis including first trimester screening, second trimester screening
  • State-of-the-art 3D and 4D obstetrical ultrasounds
  • Mother’s Milk Bank of South Carolina
  • Nurse-Family Partnership
  • Twins, Triplets, and more
  • Help with high-risk pregnancies at our Prenatal Wellness Center and Advanced Fetal Care Center
  • Pregnancies with medical complications in the mother, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and other endocrine disorders, and kidney or gastrointestinal (GI) disease
  • Pregnancy complications including recurrent preterm labor and delivery, recurrent pregnancy loss, premature rupture of membranes, twins and triplets (or more) abnormal genetic screening tests, and suspected fetal growth restriction
  • Postpartum mood disorders
  • Women’s Reproductive Behavior Health Program
  • Infectious reproductive system diseases while pregnant, including recurring yeast infections, bacterial vaginosis, HIV, and more
  • Prenatal nutritional guidance
  • Lactation clinic and breastfeeding classes
  • Perinatal Education Classes

Find a women’s health specialist. 

Accepting New Patients
Brittany Austin

Brittany Austin, BS, MD

Specialties
  • Maternal-Fetal Medicine
  • OB/GYN
Locations (2)
  • Charleston, SC
  • North Charleston, SC
Accepting New Patients
Mallory Alkis

Mallory Alkis, MD

Specialties
  • Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Locations (2)
  • Charleston, SC
  • North Charleston, SC
Gretchen Hahn

Gretchen Hahn, MSN, CNM

4.8/5.0 - 81 rating
Specialties
  • Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Locations (1)
  • North Charleston, SC

Recent pregnancy and maternity care stories.

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