Republican Scientific and Practical Centre «Mother and Child»

State Institution RNPC "Mother and Child" is the leading medical institution in the field of perinatal care in the Republic of Belarus. The Center offers a full range of medical services in the field of perinatology, including to foreign citizens on a fee basis.

The Mother and Child Center gives an amazing opportunity to become parents, even in seemingly hopeless cases.

On the basis of the Department of Family Planning and Assisted Reproductive Technologies since 2006 infertility treatment with the use of assisted reproductive technologies is carried out. For 9 years of work of the department more than 5000 cycles of assisted reproductive technologies have been carried out, 1800 children have been born.

Since 2008, the RNPC "Mother and Child" has been successfully using fetal microinvasive surgery, including:

• fetoscopic correction of antenatal fetal pathology;
• cordocentesis with intrauterine transfusion;
• chorionic villus biopsy in the first trimester of pregnancy (from 10 weeks 5 days to 13 weeks of pregnancy).

Thanks to the work of the center, women with high risks of pregnancy, with severe obstetric-gynecological and extragenital pathology, have found a chance to experience the joy of motherhood. For example, this year two patients who had undergone kidney transplantation in the past and 15 patients who had undergone plastic surgery and prosthetics of heart valves and chambers became mothers.

Pregnancy prolongation is also carried out in women with broken waters at the gestational age of 24-28 weeks.

Inpatient treatment is carried out in wards of increased comfort. Both expectant mothers and newborns are surrounded with care and attention from the very first minutes of their birth.

The Center has a genetic laboratory equipped with the latest modern equipment, whose specialists perform newborn screening, biochemical and DNA diagnostics of metabolic diseases, molecular cytogenetic and DNA research in the field of hereditary pathology, a large volume of prenatal research and biochemical screening of pregnant women.

We also offer a program of diagnostics of hereditary and acquired thrombophilias, tandem mass spectrometry, a program of DNA diagnostics of the most common neuromuscular diseases, a program of complex diagnostics of hereditary causes of male infertility, a complex program of diagnostics of hereditary liver diseases, a program of lifetime and prenatal diagnostics of lysosomal accumulation diseases, etc.

The Department of Medical Genetics of RNPC "Mother and Child" carries out:

• computer diagnostic program SynDiag
• diagnostic algorithms and medical and genetic counseling for congenital and hereditary diseases
• algorithms for molecular cytogenetic diagnostics of chromosome microrearrangements.

After complex and comprehensive examination and treatment, the patient is given detailed recommendations on further preventive and supportive treatment, lifestyle, to prevent recurrences of the disease and maximize social adaptation.

The team of RNPC "Mother and Child" is a team of highly qualified specialists, dedicated to their work, which has at its disposal the most modern diagnostic equipment of expert and high class.