North Canterbury Perinatal Wellness

“While some clinicians will tell you that women with a higher BMI are more likely to have a caesarean because of reasons to do with their weight or size, we have to consider the possibility that the increased chance of being told you need a caesarean if you have a higher BMI may be wholly or partly because of the beliefs and attitudes held by health professionals, and/or by the way they and others treat you during your pregnancy and birth.”

If you’d like to find out more, and get informed about the evidence, see my latest book:

Plus Size Pregnancy: what the evidence really says about higher BMI and birth.

It’s available now, and you can find out more and grab your copy at https://www.sarawickham.com/plus-size-pregnancy/

When it comes to some of what is being shared about the pros and cons of induction in late pregnancy, what we’re seeing isn’t evidence-based decision making.

It’s decision-based evidence making.

This makes it all the more important that women and families can explore the evidence and the issues for themselves, so that they can make the decisions that are right for them.

All of my books have been written with this aim in mind.

My most popular book is called, “In Your Own Time: How western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop.”

I wrote it to help demystify the evidence and also to highlight some of the significant discrepancies between guidelines and what we really know about the benefits of supporting women to birth spontaneously.

Find out more at www.sarawickham.com/time

I hope you’ll find it useful.

GUEST SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Violet Clapham has worked in the Canterbury region as a homebirth midwife for many years. Having welcomed hundreds of new babies in their own home, she has a wealth of experience and knowledge about how best to support a homebirth plan. Violet will talk about how homebirth outcomes compare with hospital birth, and how to ensure you have the right support for your homebirth.

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