Fetal position (British English also foetal) is the positioning of the body of a prenatal fetus as it develops.

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) or foetal alcohol syndrome is a pattern of physical and mental defects that can develop in a fetus in association with high levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy.

Stillbirths also decreased, which is partly due to better pre birth diagnostics screening of congenital abnormalities, and the family's option to terminate pregnancy before birth in the case of foetal chromosomal anomaly.

The United States company Gibco produces AmnioMAX, which is a culture medium for the detection of foetal congenital malformations in women over 38 years of age and is the only product known on the international market for carrying out this test.