Birthing Centre
     
Pregnancy is a very special time in a person's life. Educating yourselves with your options, and how to provide yourselves with the best possible care are essential to a healthy pregnancy. Apollo Hospitals Colombo makes every mother's dream come true of a healthy and stress-free delivery.
   
The Birthing centre is specially designed with you and your baby in mind. We have;

• 4 Super Deluxe rooms (Single occupancy) and 6 General Ward beds with attached bathroom and equipped with maternal/fetal monitoring, medical gases, and television, to ensure the privacy and comfort you wish for your delivery.
• Your spouse/partner is permitted to be with you during delivery.
• Fully equipped nursery, isolation room and neonatal intensive care unit to cater to the varying needs of your baby.
• Adjacent to the nursery is the breastfeeding room to ensure privacy for you when you spend that very special time together. Rooming in of babies with mothers is strongly encouraged.
• Availability of a Breastfeeding Nurse, who will assist and counsel you to overcome initial problems associated with breastfeeding.
• Availability of the Obstetrician, Anesthetist, Paediatrician and Neonatologist.
• A full range of support services including dietetics, physiotherapy, etc.
• 24 hours operating theatre in the event of an emergency.

Tours of the birthing centre can be arranged with the Front Office Supervisor if desired please contact our front office or registration desk.

Strategically located in the birthing centre is the 10-bedded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

The unit is easily accessible to parents for visits from the adjoining maternal ward and in emergency, to the Resuscitation Team.
   
Facilities
It is fully equipped with modern equipment essential for the level of care we are proud to provide, such as ventilators, invasive cardiac pulmonary monitors, incubators, resuscitaire and perfusor syringe pumps.
Patient Addmision
Besides neonates with cardiac and respiratory problems, premature and low birth weight newborns are the most common cases admitted to the unit for our specialised care.

To ensure babies under our charge are always rendered the highest standard of care and attention, the nurses are well trained and nurse-patient ratio constantly adjusted to the level of care needed, such as 1:1.
 
Parental Support
 
Parents are encouraged to participate in the care of their babies by singing and talking to them, which we know helps promote bonding, growth and development. Mothers are also advised to manually express and store their breast milk to be given to their babies at a later time.

Prior to discharge, our nurses help prepare parents to adapt to their care provider role by giving them health education and encouraging them to handle their babies.

Cases discharged from the unit are followed up to promote long-term relationship among the nurses, the parents and babies.
 
For more information please contact our Birthing Centre on 543 1150 / 1151
 
 
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