Dr Monika Skubisz

03/11/2025

Handsome, sleeping Nicholas and his mum paid me a visit recently after an elective Caesarean for placenta praevia. It still humbles me to be remember what a lifesaving procedure it is for women and babies.

30/10/2025

Whilst women’s health remains underfunded by both Medicare and Private Health Insurers, there are plenty of people seeking to take advantage of our unique health needs and vulnerabilities. If you think you need help navigating the perimenopause>menopause transition, speak to a qualified, experienced women’s health focused GP or a passionate specialist Obstetrician & Gynaecologist. Say no to the noctors!

Lovely cartooning colleague Judy Horacek has posted this photo from her local pharmacy .
If this AI-imagined doctor or digitally-jooshed actor in a white coat gets you into a pharmacy where they try to sell you 'menopause' supplements and herbal stuff, ask to see the studies proving that particular formula does anything for brain fog, severe hot flushes, libido, rage, incontinence, muscle-building, collagen in your skin or 'belly fat'. Such studies do not exist. They are getting away with false claims and dodgy marketing. BEWARE anyone advising you on health who is also selling you something. Sources for reliable menopause info: websites for Australasian Menopause Society, jeanhailes, and Insta accounts for Dr Jen Gunter, Professor Susan Davis and Dr Jen Lincoln.

21/10/2025

It’s been a big week but today I presented evidence to the South Australian Government’s Select Committee on Health Services in SA about matters very dear to my heart - the provision of excellence in women’s healthcare by Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Immense gratitude to for giving voice to these important issues 🙏

19/10/2025

Getting in early on the RANZCOG ASM action in Adelaide this week with a talk to our GP Associates on Preventing Recurrent Preterm Birth 👶🌸

17/10/2025

Always special to be able to mix business with pleasure and support a worthy cause. I was especially proud of the beautiful humans that are my family 🤩

12/10/2025

Language is important…this article eloquently discusses the potential harms of unprofessional language that has entered the Australian maternity arena. The term obstetric violence suggests an intent to cause harm, which could not be further from the truth from how I and most of my colleagues show up to work in difficult circumstances every day. Keep up the good work 🖤

🔔 NEW in the Medical Journal of Australia

Linguistic manoeuvres: obstetric violence camouflages harm and loss of consent from birth

✍️ Harsha Ananthram, Liz Sutton, Rebecca Matthews, Nadine Montgomery, James Titcombe and Ajay Rane

https://buff.ly/wnbz9Ms

24/09/2025

Baby Ivy just wanted to be different - born breech and all tangled up in her cord, unlike her two older brothers! And smiles so sweet she made my ovaries squeak 😍🌸

20/09/2025

Whose grandma is the best?! Lucy’s! Lovely to see this little lady again and admire her cute little personalised jumper 😍

16/09/2025

Another full circle professional moment: Helping mum and dad conceive baby Archer was rewarding, but nothing beats seeing this little man in his sweet little onesie with those lovely big cheeks 😍

11/08/2025

Monday morning gratitude - no better way to start the week than seeing a handsome baby boy with his parents after helping them with years of infertility and caring for them in pregnancy - now that’s continuity of care! 👶💙

26/07/2025

The language around childbirth has become so perjorative in Australia. Lifesaving procedures we have spent decades learning to perform are labelled as interventions. Natural birth has somehow replaced vaginal birth as if to imply it is better than its sister, a Caesarean birth. And then there’s birth trauma and obstetric rape, frankly repugnant terms used to drive a dangerous ideology that is driving up our maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. I’m not denying the experience of childbirth can be traumatic. I’ve witnessed plenty of what pregnancy and childbirth can look like at its worst. But that, my friends, is the true nature of childbirth and hence why we spend decades training to save lives. So Australia needs a reframe. Women’s and babies’ lives matter. We are privileged to have access to epidurals, Caesareans, hospitals, resuscitation equipment and even the dreaded forceps. Because they save lives. And because outcomes like urinary and faecal continence, sexual function and pelvic organ prolapse are things that a woman living in Australia in 2025 might expect to matter too.

Obstetricians are too often forced to defend ‘interventions’ when they are actually treatments reducing mortality for both mothers and their babies, a leading practitioner says. More at: https://bit.ly/3UubkWJ