Dr Brad Robinson

03/11/2025

Perhaps sometimes you need to see the worst of human nature to fully appreciate it when it’s at its best?

Last week I witnessed four particularly ignorant male Federal Parliamentarians seeking to drag women’s reproductive rights waayyy back in time.

Well tonight one particularly spectacular now new Dad reminded me what decent men have to offer. His demonstration of care, support and love for his wife in a very difficult instrumental birth was tender, beautiful and genuine. This man showed me what good men can do.

If only the ‘Cabal of Misogynistic Muppets’ could have witnessed this man’s behaviour they would have learned so so much.

Thank you my friend for showing me this tonight. I needed to see it.

.joyce

31/10/2025

I am so tired - actually i am utterly fed up with - the way that certain members of Australia’s Federal Parliament misrepresent late term termination of pregnancy.

At the moment our nation’s law-makers are gathered in Canberra and are debating ‘Priya’s Bill’. This bill would ensure that those who have tragically lost a baby to stillbirth as entitled to the same employment rights as those lucky enough to take home a live baby.

But surprise surprise! A group of muppets is seeking to ensure that anyone who has been through a late term termination is excluded from such protection. As if having a late term termination is a decision made lightly. ‘Oh Dear, it’s tremendously hot I can’t be bothered with these last 10 weeks I’ll just pop out and end this pesky pregnancy. And how about we grab some Margaritas after?!’.

These ‘muppets’ clearly have no concept of the trauma that women and couples put into these sorts of positions where these decisions need to be made go through.

Do they really think ANYONE would do such a thing without the most compelling medical circumstances? I have seen these circumstances first hand. And I have never seen anyone involved in making this choice anything other than utterly devastated.

So to MP’s (aka the Muppets) Barnaby Joyce, Andrew Hastie, and Tony Pasin, I say pull your archaic and misogynistic heads out of the 1920’s sand in which they clearly inhabit and have some compassion for those forced into these very real and devastating decisions.

21/10/2025

My wife once described being pregnant after Georgie’s stillbirth as like a ‘white knuckle ride’ where she felt like she was gripping on for dear life.

Pregnancy after a previous loss is one of the most difficult challenges women will ever face - and one of the reasons for this is often surprising to these women.

That reason? Guilt.

Guilt that they are, in way out of a desire to protect themselves from the trauma of further loss, not allowing themselves to be excited, or feel joy, about this baby.

This leads to inevitable and often profound grief. It’s like another loss - albeit of a different kind - after their previous loss of their baby.

The loss of the magic of expectation. And then the fear of judgement - from others and mostly from themselves!

You are allowed to feel this way without guilt. No one gets to tell you what is the ‘right’ or ‘appropriate’ way to respond to such trauma.

Grief counselling and pregnancy loss support can be invaluable and underused tools. ❤️

20/10/2025

Here is a perfect example of a velamentous cord insertion!

There are few things in this world I find as amazing and fascinating as the placenta - and all the different varieties of them!

13/10/2025

It seems like we live in this weird dystopian world where all of a sudden there is a focus on those with neurodivergence.

In their haste to make non-scientific decisions and announcements about Autism spectrum disorder, and its supposed causes, the language from those leading this conversation has become so disordered.

I have major misgivings about how it seems these decision makers want - and expect - all of us to fit into a specific and defined ‘box’ of behaviour. And if we don’t, then we are a problem for which there needs to be a medical cause and solution.

Can we please reframe this and instil some humanity and compassion into these conversations?

08/10/2025

Special shout out to this very special human who covered me while I had recent holidays and gave typically unparalleled care to my patients 🙏

I always hold some fears when has covered me that when I return swathes of my patients will ditch me for her cause, well, she’s much better than me!

I know that anyone who has had the pleasure of her most-excellent skills and overall decency would agree she is indeed standing in the O&G hall to fame 🎶

08/09/2025

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