Rural Delivery Midwives

31/10/2025

Estimated, not absolute 💜

29/10/2025

25/10/2025

Yes! Even if you quietly say no, our job is to say it louder for you 💜

15/10/2025

If there weren't already enough reasons for us to eat less processed food, here are a few more 💜

23/09/2025

A fantastic wee group of welcoming mum's and their babes to catch up with Thursday mornings if you are in the Cheviot area 🥰

Catch ups every Thursday! Come join us X

23/09/2025

Recent international headlines have caused unnecessary concern among expectant mothers about the use of paracetamol (also known as acetaminophen, or as brand names like Panadol in New Zealand or Tylenol in the USA). The New Zealand College of Midwives wants to reassure pregnant women that paracetamo...

15/09/2025

04/09/2025

A few years back, I was in conversation with a hospital-based midwife colleague about a shared frustration.

We were both so tired of hearing that women who had been told they had gestational diabetes (or GD, which is a debatable label in itself) were also being told they needed induction.

"The problem is," she said, "that some obstetricians tell women they're at high risk because they have GD, and that induction is the solution, but there's no evidence for that. But the lack of studies mean the issues are complex and there's no easy place I can point women to, so they can read more."

I knew just what she meant.

I had written about GD in my Inducing Labour book, but our conversation made me realise that I didn't have a blog post on this topic.

I wrote one that week.

Since I wrote it, my blog post on Induction for gestational diabetes: what's the evidence? has become one of my most popular.

And today I have checked and updated it, to ensure that it stays relevant and useful for the thousands of women, families, midwives and birth workers who visit it every year.

You can read it at https://www.sarawickham.com/articles-2/induction-for-gestational-diabetes/

I hope you'll find it useful.