Keelkattalai · Chennai · obstetrics, gynaecology and fertility
One doctor, from your first scan to the delivery room.
Dr. Vanitha Shri R has practised obstetrics, gynaecology and fertility medicine in Chennai since 2003. Some women come to her with a question they have only just thought to ask. Others bring one they have carried for years. Both get the same unhurried consultation.
- Tamil
- English
- Telugu
- Hindi
- Kannada
She takes the history before she reaches for the test.
- Fertility evaluation
- PCOS and getting pregnant
- Recurrent miscarriage
- IUI, IVF and what comes first
- Antenatal care
- High-risk pregnancy
- Birth after a caesarean (VBAC)
- Planning your delivery
- PCOS and irregular periods
- Heavy or painful periods
- Fibroids and endometriosis
- Menopause
Start here
What brings you here?
You don’t need the medical word for it. Pick the sentence that sounds most like yours.
Fertility“I’m trying to get pregnant.”
Whether you have been trying for six months or six years, the first step is understanding why, before anyone talks about treatment.
Fertility & Reproductive Care
Pregnancy“I’m pregnant.”
Regular, unhurried antenatal care with the same doctor from the first scan to the delivery room, including pregnancies that need closer watching.
Pregnancy & Maternity Care
Gynaecology“Something doesn’t feel right.”
Periods, pain, bleeding, infections, menopause. The concerns women are most often told to put up with, taken seriously and examined properly.
Gynaecology & Women’s Health
- In practice since
- 2003
- Specialist since
- 2009
- 159 Google reviews
- 4.6★
- Languages
- 5
- Registration
- 73738
The whole journey
From the first question to the first cry.
Fertility, pregnancy and gynaecology are not separate journeys. Being seen by one specialist across all three means nothing gets handed off and re-explained.
01 · Trying
I’m trying to get pregnant.
Whether you have been trying for six months or six years, the first step is understanding why, before anyone talks about treatment.
02 · Pregnant
I’m pregnant.
Regular, unhurried antenatal care with the same doctor from the first scan to the delivery room, including pregnancies that need closer watching.
03 · Closer watching
High-risk pregnancy
Antenatal care from confirmation to delivery, with the same doctor throughout. Close monitoring where a pregnancy needs it: diabetes, blood pressure, growth concerns, previous losses.
04 · Birth, and after
Birth, planned together
Delivery planned well before labour, including birth after a caesarean where it is safe, and care for mother and baby after.
Dr. Vanitha Shri R
Obstetrician · Gynaecologist · Fertility Specialist
More than medicine. A relationship built on trust.
Two decades of obstetrics teaches you that most of what worries a patient is not visible on a scan. It is the question she has not asked yet: the pain she was told to ignore, the pregnancy she is frightened of losing, the treatment somebody told her she had no choice about.
Dr. Vanitha’s consultations are built around that. She takes a full history before she reaches for a test. She explains what she finds in the language you speak, and she tells you which options are genuinely reasonable, including waiting when waiting is the right answer.
Care at Progress Women’s Care is continuous. The doctor who sees you at your first consultation is the doctor who follows your treatment through.
Twenty years of obstetrics, and she still starts by asking how you are sleeping.
Your first visit
What happens when you come in.
Knowing the shape of the appointment makes it easier to book one.
- 01
You talk first
A full history before any test: what has been happening, for how long, what you have already tried, and what you are actually worried about.
- 02
Examination and, where useful, a scan
An examination with a female attendant present. Where a scan or blood test will change the answer, it is done; where it will not, it is not ordered.
- 03
What was found, explained
In Tamil, Kannada, English or whichever language you are most comfortable in. What the findings mean, what they do not mean, and what is likely to happen next.
- 04
The options, including doing nothing
Every reasonable option, with its trade-offs. Watchful waiting is an option and is named as one. You decide, with a clear plan and a date to review it.
What patients say
In their words, not ours.
4.6 · 159 Google reviewsReviews left on the Google Business Profile for Progress Speciality Clinics, shown as written. Every pregnancy and every treatment is different, and one person’s outcome is not a promise of yours.
“After 7 years of marriage… my wife was diagnosed with PCOD… Most doctors advised us that IVF was our only option, and we had mentally prepared ourselves for that path. From our very first visit, her kindness, compassion, and positive approach gave us renewed hope. After just three months of treatment, we conceived naturally.”
“We are truly blessed with twins… What I admire most is her honesty and clarity. She explains things very straightforwardly, gives realistic facts, and prepares you well in advance for possible outcomes and obstacles. Later in my pregnancy I developed BP issues and was very afraid. Because of her guidance and constant support, my babies arrived safely.”
“Dr. Vanitha Shri performed a hysterectomy for my wife… From the initial consultation to the surgery and follow-up visits, Dr. Vanitha Shri explained everything clearly, which helped ease our worries a lot. The surgery went smoothly, and my wife's recovery has been great.”
Common questions
Questions we are asked most.
General information, not medical advice for your situation. Bring your own question to a consultation.
Ask on WhatsApp- How do I book an appointment with Dr. Vanitha Shri?
- Send the word “Hi” on WhatsApp to +91 70109 09596. Someone from the clinic replies with the next available times. You can also call the same number. No form and no registration is needed to ask for a slot.
- Where does Dr. Vanitha Shri consult in Chennai?
- At Progress Women’s Care, 9 First Floor, Medavakkam Main Road, above Nilgiri’s and near the Keelkattalai bus stand, Keelkattalai, Chennai 600117. It is a unit of Progress Speciality Clinics and is a short drive from Medavakkam, Madipakkam, Pallikaranai and Kovilambakkam.
- Which languages can I consult in?
- Tamil, English, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada. Dr. Vanitha consults in all five, so you can describe what is happening in the language you actually think in rather than translating it first.
- What does Dr. Vanitha Shri specialise in?
- Obstetrics, gynaecology and fertility medicine. In practice that means antenatal and high-risk pregnancy care, delivery including birth after a caesarean, fertility evaluation and treatment, and gynaecological conditions such as PCOS, heavy periods, fibroids and endometriosis, including keyhole surgery.
- What should I bring to my first consultation?
- Any previous scans, blood reports and discharge summaries, the medicines you are taking, and the date your last period started. If you have been treated elsewhere for the same problem, bring those records too. Nothing else is needed.
Tools
Answers you can work out tonight.
Everything is calculated on your phone. Nothing you enter is stored or sent anywhere.
- Due date
Due date calculator
Work out your due date, how far along you are, and when each scan and test usually falls.
Open - Ovulation
Ovulation and fertile window calculator
See your likely fertile days and your next periods for the coming three cycles.
Open 
Fertility checkShould we see a fertility specialist yet?
Answer five questions and see whether it is time for an evaluation, based on the guidance fertility specialists use.
Open- PCOS check
PCOS symptom check
Eight questions about the symptoms doctors look at when they consider PCOS. It cannot diagnose PCOS, but it can tell you whether it is worth asking.
Open 
Period checkIs my period too heavy?
Seven questions based on the signs doctors use to recognise heavy menstrual bleeding.
Open
Women’s health library
Questions patients actually ask.
Fertility
How long should we try before seeing a fertility specialist?
Fertility
Does PCOS mean I will not be able to get pregnant?
Pregnancy
What makes a pregnancy “high-risk”, and what changes if it is?
Pregnancy
Can I have a normal delivery after a caesarean?
Gynaecology
How heavy is too heavy for a period?
Pregnancy
What should I bring to my first pregnancy consultation?
Every article is written for patients and reviewed by Dr. Vanitha before it is published, with the review date shown on the page.
Visiting the clinic
On Medavakkam Main Road, above Nilgiri’s.
9, First Floor, Medavakkam Main RoadAbove Nilgiri’s, near Keelkattalai bus stand
Keelkattalai, Chennai 600117
Within a short drive of Medavakkam, Madipakkam, Pallikaranai, Kovilambakkam and Tambaram.
- Dr. Vanitha consults
- Mon–Sat, 9:00–10:00 am and 5:30–7:30 pm. Closed Sundays
- Clinic open
- Mon–Sat, 9:00 am – 7:30 pm. Closed Sundays
- On site
- In-house ultrasound and Doppler
- NABH-accredited laboratory
- Pharmacy on site
- Phone
- +91 70109 09596
Appointments
Bring the question you have been putting off.
Tell us your name, a number to reach you on and roughly what it is about. Nothing medical is needed to book. That conversation belongs in the room.