The Fetal Frontline

Dr. Michael Harrison didn't set out to invent a field of medicine — he set out to save one baby. In this episode of The Fetal Frontline , host Kris Rimbos sits down with the surgeon widely known as the Father of Fetal Surgery for a wide-ranging conversation about how operating on a patient before birth went from unthinkable to standard of care. Harrison traces the whole arc: the newborn with a dia...

Social work is one of fetal care's most vital — and least understood — roles. In this episode of The Fetal Frontline , host Kris Rimbos sits down with Beth Moorhouse , a social worker specializing in fetal and perinatal care, for a grounded conversation about what it really takes to support families through the most uncertain moments of a pregnancy. Beth explains how she builds trust fast with fam...

Fetal care nursing is one of medicine's most specialized — and least visible — roles. In this episode of The Fetal Frontline , host Kris Rimbos sits down with Melissa Dorn , a fetal care nurse with more than two decades in fetal therapy, for a grounded, honest look at what the work really involves. Melissa breaks her job into four "buckets" — handling the intake and triage of referrals, connecting...

In 2015, one nurse saw a gap no one else was filling — and decided to do something about it. Ten years later, the Fetal Therapy Nurse Network has grown from 25 founding members to nearly 440 across the United States and Canada. In this inaugural episode of The Fetal Frontline, founder Katie Francis sits with host Kris Rimbos to trace the network's origin story: how a young coordinator at SSM Healt...