Royal helps nation lead way in prenatal care, 100 years on

By Melissa Davey
Updated January 7 2013 - 11:13am, first published December 28 2012 - 3:00am
Baby nurturers … midwives in the 1940s at the Royal Hospital for Women, which is celebrating 100 years of prenatal care.
Baby nurturers … midwives in the 1940s at the Royal Hospital for Women, which is celebrating 100 years of prenatal care.
The late Dr Coll Fisher.
The late Dr Coll Fisher.

MEN are terrible wimps, according to Stephen Steigrad, who worked at the Royal Hospital for Women for about 45 years. He retired as the hospital's director of reproductive medicine in July.

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