 Rudman's best finish at the FIBT World Championships was 10th in the women's skeleton event at St. Moritz in 2007.She later announced that she was to become a mother in October and would be taking half the following season off.She sat out the 2007–08 Skeleton World Cup season to give birth to her daughter Ella Marie and have a knee operation (although she returned to the Inter-continental circuit in North America in January where she finished second (Park City) and won the penultimate race in Lake Placid), and made an impact on her return to the sport for the 2008–09 season.