Dr David Greening

26/12/2025

Kylie has reached #1 on the charts in the UK 🇬🇧 with Xmas!
Have a listen and I remember her on Neighbours and here she is still delivering a hit.
It’s very catchy 😀

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24/12/2025

Merry Christmas 🎄 for tomorrow everyone! I’m in Wagga Wagga doing a locum until Christmas Day 0800. 4 days off then back again.
Keeping my obstetrics and gynaecology skills up, seeing my Wagga daughter and enjoying a change .
They have kept me reasonably busy and after the first day of 42C it’s been wet and cooler thankfully.
Enjoy your Christmas 🎅 day and best wishes for the festive season
David

13/12/2025

My wonderful Gregory Hills IVF units Christmas 🎄 dinner in Camden last night.
We are a great team, and it feels like a big extended family which makes each day at work enjoyable.
Usually we’re all in work scrubs, no makeup or perfumes or anything as embryos hate VOCs (volatile organic compounds) and so it’s great to see the team dressing up.
Our latest pregnancy 🤰 rates are excellent so we finished the year feeling that we’ve done a good job for our patients and I’m proud of us.
Merry Christmas 🎅 everyone from us all ❤️
David

12/12/2025

Best read of 2025 😄 This article was in the Guardians best reads of 2025.
And has been widely read and got great feedback.
Chapter 5 in my (only) own book 📕’ The Roadmap to Fertility ( sold out but an eBook) was S*x: The facts and the fun. Written with Janet Hall a noted Melbourne s*x therapist, because s*x becomes such an issue for infertility couples.
But as you all know no one teaches us about s*x , schools don’t, parents don’t, friends don’t. It’s one of the missing great teachings in life you have to work out for yourself. Along with relationships, finances, how to argue, parenting basics, s*x isn’t taught well to society. It just isn’t.
And the universal tip here is just that, universal. Enjoy the read. It is absolutely worth it.
David

How do we get better at discussing s*xual satisfaction when our ge****ls are synonymous with the word ‘unmentionables’? It takes no luck, no money and can be learned

10/12/2025

A maternal death 😢 As an obstetrician who’s been in this area for 30 years I find these stories absolutely tragic and traumatic. A post partum haemorrhage is difficult to manage in a hospital 🏥 but at home with no resources almost impossible.
Back in the Middle Ages pregnant 🤰 women died at a horrendous rate, 1:8. It was the most dangerous event in a woman’s life to be pregnant. Modern obstetrics in Australia 🇦🇺 has that rate down to 8.2/10000. A huge improvement. Half are directly due to pregnancy and half underlying medical illnesses of the mother that were pre existing.
Home birth has risks. Yet there are well organised home birth obstetrics groups in Australia 🇦🇺 based around hospitals 🏥 with midwives, safety screening protocols and procedures in place.
This tragic case highlights that if you make a choice to birth outside support and complications occur it can go tragically wrong. There are consequences for choices. There always will be.
I’m biased. I know I am because I’ve spent a career being called in to obstetric complications. I’ve seen the worst. And often. It makes one realise how quickly a lovely birth can go wrong. Thankfully 😅 most pregnant women are young and well and we can treat them and they recover.
Lastly obstetrics is about making decisions as the labor progresses. Constantly making good safe sensible decisions using knowledge and experience.
Using treatments quickly and effectively to sort out issues that arise.
My opinion is that we all have the right to choice. Choose wisely when pregnant 🫄 who or where to go. And trust the team looking after you to do the same, to choose wisely the management options for you to look after you both during this amazing time.
David

Shortly after her catastrophic freebirth, paramedics found an agitated Stacey Warnecke lying on the floor next to her birthing pool in a small, dark room, a court has heard.

09/12/2025

10th December 2001 Lord of the Rings LOTR premiers and New Zealand 🇳🇿 has never been the same since.
I went to a ln event with Peter Jackson in Sydney as he was interviewed on stage about LOTR. They had one opportunity to hook New Line Cinemas, the only interested studio. So Peter and Fran concocted a plan to ‘appear’ they had multiple studios interested over their week in LA. All the while they mostly sat in their hotel creating the illusion. It worked, New Line Cinema’s made the best decision ever and LOTR was on its way to history.
My family plays a game- if you were stuck on a desert island 🏝️ what 5 things would you take ? Books 📚 movies, etc. I’d take LOTR trilogy ( which I argue is one movie 🎥 cut into 3 parts) I absolutely love ❤️ it. And I recognise the places in NZ its film scenes are filmed in. Which helps.
24 years ago today it premiered. The first movie 🎦 won 4 oscars . The 3rd Return of the King won 11 Oscar’s.
And lastly, LOTR is a great trilogy of books 📚 to read. Maybe for Christmas 🎄 give it to a young person whose missing social media 🤔
David

Peter Jackson's life wouldn't be the same after that red carpet event on December 10, 2001, but it's fair to say cinema, and New Zealand, wouldn't be the same either.

08/12/2025

Christmas is close and I get out and about the southern highlands as it approaches.
The lovely festival of lights at Corbett gardens in Bowral.
And Fitzroy falls as a wee trickle of 81m height. Throsby discovered them but governor Fitzroy’s name is attached I read. Great walk and visitors centre if you’re interested. Just down the road is kangaroo valley. There’s loads of trails here to explore.
The southern highlands is simply amazing and now winter is passed ( and that’s a new experience) it’s warmed up and absolutely beautiful here. For you sea 🌊 lovers a tree 🌲 change 😄
David

06/12/2025

Female age- like all fertility doctors 🥼 the first thing I look at in any new infertility couple or single female is her DOB, Date Of Birth. It’s the rate determining step due to egg age. Under 35 is great, 35-40 ok but some age issues but then above 40 is a big challenge. 45 + it will mean donor eggs are needed.
If we could help older eggs work better it would be a huge step forward.
David

Scientists invented a new experimental system to study how age-related changes in egg cells make them more prone to chromosomal errors.

04/12/2025

Pregnancy 🫄 vitamins and supplements. A very informative article.
I read once that Australians have the highest vitamin use in the world 🌎 which might explain some of this article.
Can I add when pregnant 🤰 eat well and reduce all the negative things as well.
Your baby has 9 months to develope so give it the best environment to do that. They’ll thank you 🙏 for it later.

Health experts say tighter regulations around pregnancy supplements are needed as newer brands replace folic acid — a key nutrient shown to prevent birth defects — with a lesser-studied alternative.

03/12/2025

A world 🌎 first in Australia 🇦🇺. As a baby-boomer I’ve been through a few generations and there’s always changes. But Gen-Y has a lot especially as it’s global. I was driving 🚗 back from Sydney many years ago listening 👂 to the ABC Fm radio 📻 talking about predictive algorithms based apps like Facebook etc who where determined to create apps to anticipate what people wanted but then steer them towards products and services etc. The line I recall was something about super clever programmers and designers out thinking 🤨 the average person to create the predictive algorithms to their advantage, not the users. With a strong commercial bias.
There’s a reason the word ‘ influencer’ is used so often now.
Well, as my bioethics studies shows if one thinks about consequences of actions morally, i.e what’s right and wrong about it, then social media has consequences.
Let’s see what this new ban does? What the consequences are as we’ve seen the consequences of an open social media world 🗺️.
My own opinion would be for young people to be more social, minus the media. Read more 📚 books, and be less ‘ influenced’ by others on line. There’s a lot to be said for finding ones ‘tribe’, ones social connection group. Trying this physically rather than on line may have very positive consequences 😄
David

Today marks the unofficial start of the teen social media ban. Here's everything you need to know.

03/12/2025

Sh**ha - what in means in terms of cigarette 🚬 equivalents 🤔?
I see much more of this method of inhaling to***co in South-West Sydney than in Wollongong. So I did a ChatGPT review and was shocked😱 by the findings. A large NIH, national institute of health study on sh**ha and s***m effects showed a huge increase in s***m DNA 🧬 damage. That will have huge infertility effects as well as increased miscarriage rates.
You CAN improve your fertility by removing this from your lifestyle.
Forearmed is forewarned!
David