Apollo Cradle & Children's Hospital, Jayanagar, Bengaluru

Apollo Cradle & Children’s Hospital, Jayanagar is a 28-bed specialist women’s and children’s hospital in Bengaluru operating from a 22,000 sq ft facility. It is designed around maternity, neonatal, paediatric and women’s healthcare rather than broad adult multispecialty medicine. Its clinical services include obstetrics and gynaecology, high-risk pregnancy, fetal medicine, fertility, gynaecological laparoscopy, paediatrics and neonatology.

The hospital brings obstetricians, paediatricians and neonatal specialists together within the same care pathway for mothers and babies who may need coordinated treatment. Infrastructure includes a Level III NICU, two operating theatres with laminar flow and HEPA filtration, labour and delivery facilities and dedicated inpatient rooms. Neonatal support is designed for premature and critically ill newborns, including babies who require ventilator care.

The hospital's website states that its Level III NICU supports babies weighing as little as 550 grams, as well as babies born with critical illness and babies who need ventilator support. It also lists a consultant panel of more than 50 consultants.

The fetal medicine service, described as a branch of obstetrics and gynaecology, is aimed at high-risk pregnancies. The conditions it lists include recurrent pregnancy loss, preterm birth, blood pressure problems such as pre-eclampsia, placental bleeding, pre-existing maternal health conditions, birth defects detected in the foetus and multiple pregnancies. The site notes that fetal medicine specialists often work with paediatric surgeons when a birth defect has been detected.

The hospital is open 24/7 and supports maternity and neonatal emergencies, planned delivery, gynaecological procedures and paediatric consultation. Its scale is focused and specialised rather than comparable with a large tertiary hospital. Apollo Cradle Jayanagar is particularly relevant for pregnancy and childbirth, high-risk obstetrics, neonatal intensive care, fertility services and paediatric treatment in Bengaluru.