It’s every mother’s hope to deliver a healthy baby. The Penn Highlands Perinatology offers a variety of services to ensure mothers and newborns receive all the help they need. Perinatology, also known as maternal-fetal medicine, is a subspecialty of obstetrics that focuses on the care of the fetus and complicated, high-risk pregnancies. Physicians who practice maternal-fetal medicine are called perinatologists. They are experts in the obstetrical field about medical, genetic and surgical complications of pregnancy and the effects on both the mother and the unborn baby.