Dr David Greening

03/02/2026

Good news 🗞️ everyone
Had my 2 weeks eye check up and it’s healing perfectly. 🙏
Retinal scan looks perfect again so the internal vitrectomy surgery did a great job!
My vision will still take up to 2 months to recover fully and I’ll develop a cataract in that eyes lens at some point point in the future. But a new introcular lens is common surgery and works brilliantly.
I can start driving 🚗 and we be back to work fully tomorrow.
See (pun intended) you all tomorrow ☺️
David

02/02/2026

My 1 year anniversary in Bowral
I moved here exactly 12 months ago after 24 years in Wollongong. A tree 🌲 change after a sea 🌊 change! There were a lot of reasons, some social, some professional. Almost all my old colleagues had gone in Wollongong and I felt it was time to move on. I considered Canberra and even New Zealand 🇳🇿 but settled on Bowral commuting up to my City Fertility IVF unit in Gregory Hills Monday Wednesday and Fridays, and opening rooms in Springett’s arcade Tuesday and Thursdays. I got new staff, new place to live, new rooms and changed practice programs. A lot happened. Trips to the USA, developed a social connection in Bowral, survived winter ❄️ and a few injuries.
And look forward to 2026. And as always will keep you posted about the year as it unfolds.
Off to our annual strategy weekend in Brisbane this weekend with many ideas 💡 I always do.
And loving the southern highlands so glad I made the change. Wollongong was good to me and I think here will be too.
David

23/01/2026

Update on my retina 👁️
I took a 3 hr train trip from Bowral to Miranda to see Prof Adrian Fung and got the good news 🗞️ my surgery worked perfectly and it’s healing well 🙏 which was awesome.
Still a while before I can go back to driving 🚗 or work so an enforced break for me.
I stopped off at MacArthur square to visit the team at our First Step Fertility rooms catching up to Nadine who had some exciting news. The sunglasses 🕶️are because the pupil get dilated and light is painful for a few hours.
Safely home 🏡 and enjoying some Australian 🇦🇺 Open tennis and the BBL cricket 🏏.
Enjoy the Australia Day long weekend everyone
David

19/01/2026

Post surgery. I had retinal surgery today in Sydney by Prof Adrian Fung a retinal expert ophthalmologist at Macquarie University hospital 🏥. I actually had my first retinal tear develop 7 weeks ago and had laser surgery and in Bowral but unfortunately it continued to extend.
I had a vitrectomy all done from within the eye and now have to have 2 week break to rest and recover and Prof Fung said I will.
Apologies for any inconvenience to patients and staff but it had to be done urgently.
I’ll keep you posted as to my recovery.
David

04/01/2026

My last day in Wagga. Started with a ward round and 10am church service along with many visitors to Wagga. I seriously enjoyed my 2 weeks of locum work. The hospital 🏥 is fairly new and excellent and as the main hospital in the area it has excellent services. And great staff that I saw.
Storms rolling around the Riverina today and back home in Bowral I hear.
2026 - lots to look forward to and may see some of you.
David

01/01/2026

Happy New year everyone for 2026
Back in Wagga for another weeks locum after getting home to Bowral for Christmas 🎄
5 babies born safely today 1st January 2026
Quick walk earlier along banks of the Murrenbidgee river and yesterday viewing the bald Archie artworks ( the parody of the Archibald’s)
Enjoy you day
David

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.