Hello,   My name is Sadie Geraghty, and in 2000 I was awarded a grant of £1,000 by the Iolanthe Trust as a second year midwifery student. I am now a midwife, working in Australia. Some of the women I work with are Aboriginal women, which was one of the reasons I so desperately wanted to win the award from the trust.   Winning the award helped me begin my over-whelming passion; to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes through education and improved standards of care, for a section of women with third world morbidity and mortality in a first world country. I am working on a high risk ward, in a large referral unit - and loving it!   Just wanted to say thanks, warm wishes, Sadie Geraghty B.A.(Hons), BSc (Hons), R.M.   Read more widely, see more clearly,    think more deeply.    Challenge yourself!

Sadie was funded by an Iolanthe Midwifery Trust student bursary to go on a three-week placement in Australia to learn about midwifery practices on the other side of the world.    She is pictured (above) with baby James Ugle shortly after his birth in the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth. This hospital is the referral unit for the whole of Western Australia, where 7% of the population are indigenous people. James’s mother, Polly, suffers from diabetes and knew she was likely to need a hospital stay around the birth. Before going into labour, she was picked up from her home near Broome in north-west Australia and flown 3,000 kilometres to Perth by the Royal Flying Doctor service. In the hospital, Polly was safely delivered by Sadie who then helped her to care for James over the next 10 days while she recovered from complications.   Sadie is pictured right with Aboriginal mum Laurel Tremlett and baby Theo, earlier this year. Sadie writes "this is the second baby of hers that I have caught!"

	The Iolanthe Midwifery Trust is delighted to have been able to assist Sadie and many other midwives and students over the past 25 years to benefit from travel, new experiences, postgraduate study and the opportunity to pursue research.   An Iolanthe Midwifery Trust award can make a world of difference!   To find out how you can apply for an Iolanthe award click here.

 

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