19/10/2025
I consider this to be the most important sentence in my book, “What’s Right For Me? Making decisions about pregnancy and childbirth.”
There are 761 other paragraphs in the book.
(Yes, I looked this up. I love numbers.)
But this one stands out for me.
So much so that I repeated it and made it bold.
And turned it into a picture.
This is an important sentence about informed decision making.
Which is just as much about deciding what you don’t want on your pregnancy and birth journey as it is about deciding what you do want.
“What’s Right For Me?” has now been in print for twenty years, and it's in its third edition, which is the longest yet.
Unlike my other books, it doesn’t detail the evidence on a specific topic.
Instead, it helps you to understand and navigate the decisions that you’ll need to make on your pregnancy and birth journey.
It contains tips, tools and ways of thinking to help you approach your journey with more knowledge and confidence.
And, for this third edition, I included a bit of additional information about your rights.
I hope you’ll find it useful.
You can find out more about the book at https://www.sarawickham.com/me
And I have also updated my blog post which deals with an important aspect of this topic.
You can read that at https://www.sarawickham.com/riffing-ranting-and-raving/consent/
It's so important to get informed so that you can make the decisions that are right for you.
