Sister Grace de Satge was matron in charge at the Sunnyside Maternity Hospital in Coffs Harbour. She grew up near Gladstone, where her father reared horses. She remembers her days training as a nurse. In 1952, she moved to Coffs with her young family to work at Sunnyside. Grace remembers the two cooks at the hospital being the best cooks in the area. She recalls the early doctors, nurses and board members fondly. In 1963 she moved to the new hospital on Victoria Street in the Jetty. Grace remembers that it was one hundred steps from the labour ward to the nursery, and they had to run to answer the bells. She fell and broke her arm one day and the floor was roughened to prevent further accidents. Grace remembers changes in sterilisation practices, including the time she had to ask her mother to send her primus needles for the stove at Sunnyside.