For Patients/Families

Fetoscopy
Use of a special, fiber optic, tubular telescope to look at the fetus while it is still in the mother's uterus. Use of this scope requires a tiny incision in the mother's abdominal wall so that the telescope can be passed into the uterus to directly view the fetus. Technically, listening to the fetal heart rate with a fetoscope, a special type of stethoscope is also fetoscopy.