In this column, Sara Wickham takes a sideways look at issues relevant to midwives, students, women and families, inviting us to sit down with a cup of tea and ponder what we think we know. This month's seasonal story tells the tale of Rudolph the red-nosed quantity surveyor, who gets more than he has bargained for when he visits the labour ward in order to weigh the birth balls for a trust health and safety exercise and decides to make tea for the tired midwives....