Rural Delivery Midwives

25/09/2025

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.

24/08/2025

Homebirth Canterbury have updated their website and it is fantastic! Loads of links to great resources to help inform your choices 💜

Any podcast listeners out there?

Did you know that we have recently updated our website with a list of great birth related podcasts? These podcasts all have some fantastic content to check out!

Whether you're looking for an evidence-packed research based podcast involving a deep dive on a niche birth-related topic, or you want to listen to a fellow Kiwi mum chat about her labour and birth experience, or whether you want to have your thoughts about birth challenged and maybe your mind blown while you hear about or****ic birth - there really is something in this list for everyone!

The podcast link section is on our 'Useful Links' page on our website. Check it out here: https://www.canterburyhomebirth.org.nz/useful-links

Do you have a favourite pregnancy or birth podcast? Share it in the comments below!