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There is nothing more precious than a healthy, newborn baby, and two Cairns doctors have seen plenty in the 30 years they have been working together.
Paediatrician Dr Tim Warnock and Cairns' longest serving obstetrician, Dr Tom Wright, are marking three decades of delivering children at Cairns Private Hospital with a photo book, 'Safe Arrivals – Celebrating a Collaborative Journey'.
Dr Wright has been working in Cairns since November 1990, following in his father's footsteps as an obstetrician.
"It's been a tale of two generations – a real privilege of being able to follow my father," he said.
"I'm one of a small group of two-generation doctors in Cairns and equally it is my privilege to deliver two generations here in Cairns.
"I delivered babies in the '90s and I am now delivering their babies."
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Dr Warnock, father of three and grandfather of one, said working with babies and children was one of the most rewarding types of medicine.
"I do mostly work now in the neo-natal area, and that's a very nice area to work in, low-risk deliveries and parents who are in the right frame of mind and generally just can't wait to meet their baby."
He said some of his best photos were of fathers seeing their babies for the first time.
"We had one, where the dad couldn't go in (to the delivery), and we brought the baby out to meet him in the recovery area, and that first meeting was very special.
"For Tom and I, one of the best things now is that we are seeing kids of the kids we saw in the 1990s," Dr Warnock added.
"It's always lovely to see the repeat offenders too – you look after them with their first babies and then you see them again when they come back for baby number two and three.
"We're very lucky."
The book will also feature as part of a four-week photo exhibition at The Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns, from Friday 22 January 2021.
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