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Chair: Janet Fyle – Professional Policy Advisor,
The Royal College of Midwives
AM Sessions
9.30 Guideline updates
Intrapartum care. Antinatal care. Maternal and child nutrition. Smoking cessation.
Helen McFarlane – Quality & Audit Development Co-ordinator, RCM
10.15 Pregnancy induced hypertension (including pre-eclampsia)
Who is at risk. Management options. What's new in the field.
Michael Rich – Executive Director, The Blood Pressure Association
10.55 Exhibition and Morning Coffee
11.30 Maternal obesity: The role of the midwife in clinical & public health nutrition
Introduction – the scale of obesity. International & national perspectives. Pregnancy & post-partum – critical periods for weight gain. Adverse outcomes - problems encountered by obese women. Managing obese women.
Iolanda Serci – Lecturer in Midwifery & Nutritionist, The Robert Gordon University
12.15 The breastfeeding challenge
Engaging & supporting mothers. The role of the health service. Sustaining breastfeeding. The challenge of increasing the number of women who breastfeed.
Professor Mary Renfrew BSc, RGN, DN, SCM,
PhD – Professor of Mother and Infant Health and Director, Mother and Infant Research Unit, Dept of Health Sciences, University of York, UK
1.00 Exhibition and Lunch
PM Sessions
2.00 An introduction to hypnobirthing
Hypnobirthing explained. How hypnobirthing supports a natural birth.
Jenny Mullan - Hypnobirthing practitioner & UK trainer
2.40 Making a difference with water births
An easy way to help with the pain of labour & keep labour normal. Increased feelings of privacy. Effect of buoyancy on the woman's pelvic diameters. Effects on the baby.
Professor Caroline Flint – Midwife & Director of Birth Centre
3.15 Exhibition and Afternoon Tea
3.45 Normalising birth
Exploring 'normality'. What is a social model of birth? Birth environment - Why is it important? Attitudes & behaviours.
Helen Shallow - Consultant Midwife Calderdale & Huddersfield Foundation NHS Trust
4.15 Management of diabetes in pregnancy - from pre conception to the postnatal period
Implementing the NICE guidelines in practice.
Jackie Webb – Diabetes Specialist Nurse Manager, Heart of England Foundation Trust
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