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MFM (maternal-fetal medicine) is a subspecialty of obstetrics. An MFM has done a four-year residency after medical school and then a fellowship of three to four years. All MFMs are board certified obstetricians. MFMs manage complicated maternal and fetal medical problems. Women with severe diabetes, heart disease, neurological disease, and so forth are managed for their medical condition. Frequently, MFMs work with the OBs to co-manage a person, with the OB actually doing the delivery. The most common path to an MFM is a referral from an OB or reproductive endocrinologist (RE) who has identified a problem that needs expert management. If a person knows that she is high risk for pregnancy, she may seek out an MFM without seeing a general OB first. IVF pregnancies may be considered high risk (especially multiples), but they can generally be comfortably managed by a general OB.