Conference Programme
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Day One ~ Thursday 26th April 2012
08.15 - 09.00 Registration
09.00 - 09.30 Welcome from the Chair - Gillian Smith - RCM Director UK Board for Scotland
09.30 - 10.45 Keynote Speaker - Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg - Oxytocin: the impact on motherhood
Oxytocin is the powerful hormone involved in bonding, sex, and childbirth, as well as in relaxation and feelings of calm. It is the
mirror image of the stress hormone adrenaline, which triggers the ‘fight or flight’ systems in the body. Both the new research
findings and the potentially beneficial applications of this hormone in reducing anxiety states, stress, addictions, and problems
of childbirth are fascinating and of great significance in all our lives.
10.45 - 11.15 Morning Break - tea, coffee & pastries served + Exhibition
11.15 - 12.45 Concurrent Morning Sessions
Dr Roch Cantwell - Perinatal mental health & the implications for care
Untreated mental health problems in pregnancy and the postnatal period can cause significant difficulty for women, their
infants and families. For some women, the early postpartum is a high risk time for development of certain more severe mental
illnesses. Effective early detection, prevention and management requires the collaboration of all health professionals involved in
the care of women at this time, and with the woman herself.
Melody Weig - Homebirth in practice
Practical solutions to common problems found at home births. Lots of tips & sharing of knowledge & skills.
12.45 - 13.45 Lunch & Exhibition
13.45 - 15.00 Keynote Speaker - Michel Odent - Womb Ecology
Michel Odent's Primal Health Database lists studies detecting correlations between a state of health in adulthood, adolescence,
or childhood, and what happened when the mother was pregnant. The practical implications of a new understanding of the
concept of health are enormous. In terms of public health, it appears today that nothing is more important than the health and
wellbeing of pregnant women.
15.00 - 15.30 Afternoon Break - tea & coffee served + Exhibition
15.30 - 16.45 Concurrent Afternoon Sessions
Adela Stockton & Debbie Gilmour - Midwife to Doula & Doula to Midwife
Adela talks about the journey she took to change her career from midwife to doula and Debbie reveals what drove her to make
the reverse decision and become a midwife after a brief spell as a doula.
Mia Scotland - Compassionate Midwifery Workshop
You already know that your relationship with your clients matters. This workshop gives you the tools to understand and
enhance your caring skills. This workshop doesn't just tell you to care, it shows you how to care. Compassionate Mind
Training (CMT) turns "being supportive" into a science. Learn how to make sure your support is positive, not just neutral.
16.45 - 17.00 Comfort break
17.00 - 18.00 Keynote Speaker - Mary Cronk MBE - Unusual births
Mary draws on her vast experience and shares knowledge & skills relating to some of the most unusual births she has attended.
18.00 End of Day 1
09.00 - 09.30 Welcome from the Chair - Gillian Smith - RCM Director UK Board for Scotland
09.30 - 10.45 Keynote Speaker - Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg - Oxytocin: the impact on motherhood
Oxytocin is the powerful hormone involved in bonding, sex, and childbirth, as well as in relaxation and feelings of calm. It is the
mirror image of the stress hormone adrenaline, which triggers the ‘fight or flight’ systems in the body. Both the new research
findings and the potentially beneficial applications of this hormone in reducing anxiety states, stress, addictions, and problems
of childbirth are fascinating and of great significance in all our lives.
10.45 - 11.15 Morning Break - tea, coffee & pastries served + Exhibition
11.15 - 12.45 Concurrent Morning Sessions
Dr Roch Cantwell - Perinatal mental health & the implications for care
Untreated mental health problems in pregnancy and the postnatal period can cause significant difficulty for women, their
infants and families. For some women, the early postpartum is a high risk time for development of certain more severe mental
illnesses. Effective early detection, prevention and management requires the collaboration of all health professionals involved in
the care of women at this time, and with the woman herself.
Melody Weig - Homebirth in practice
Practical solutions to common problems found at home births. Lots of tips & sharing of knowledge & skills.
12.45 - 13.45 Lunch & Exhibition
13.45 - 15.00 Keynote Speaker - Michel Odent - Womb Ecology
Michel Odent's Primal Health Database lists studies detecting correlations between a state of health in adulthood, adolescence,
or childhood, and what happened when the mother was pregnant. The practical implications of a new understanding of the
concept of health are enormous. In terms of public health, it appears today that nothing is more important than the health and
wellbeing of pregnant women.
15.00 - 15.30 Afternoon Break - tea & coffee served + Exhibition
15.30 - 16.45 Concurrent Afternoon Sessions
Adela Stockton & Debbie Gilmour - Midwife to Doula & Doula to Midwife
Adela talks about the journey she took to change her career from midwife to doula and Debbie reveals what drove her to make
the reverse decision and become a midwife after a brief spell as a doula.
Mia Scotland - Compassionate Midwifery Workshop
You already know that your relationship with your clients matters. This workshop gives you the tools to understand and
enhance your caring skills. This workshop doesn't just tell you to care, it shows you how to care. Compassionate Mind
Training (CMT) turns "being supportive" into a science. Learn how to make sure your support is positive, not just neutral.
16.45 - 17.00 Comfort break
17.00 - 18.00 Keynote Speaker - Mary Cronk MBE - Unusual births
Mary draws on her vast experience and shares knowledge & skills relating to some of the most unusual births she has attended.
18.00 End of Day 1
Day Two ~ Friday 27th April 2012
09.00 - 10.30 Keynote Speaker - Denis Walsh - Labour Rhythms not Stages or Progress
For over 10 years, Denis Walsh has argued for a move away from a labour progress focus, which has swamped labour care with
an imperative to measure length, and understand it as linear. Clearly, clinical and organizational imperatives create time
pressures in hospitals, but even some obstetrical journals are beginning to note that conventional time constraints are too rigid
and fail to respond to labour’s many variations. In addition, more is known about the ‘‘dance of labour’’ when it is uninterrupted,
involving the delicate interactions of hormones creating labour’s rhythms, the body’s responses, the descent of the baby,
and the natural ‘‘plateaus’’when contractions cease for a while.
10.30 - 11.00 Morning Break - tea, coffee & pastries served + Exhibition
11.00 - 12.15 Concurrent Morning Sessions
Dr David Hutchon & Dr Sheena Kinmond - Avoiding immediate or early cord clamping
SOLD OUT!
Clamping the functioning umbilical cord at birth is an unproved intervention. Lack of awareness of current evidence,
pragmatism, and conflicting guidelines are all preventing change. To prevent further injury to babies we would be better to rush
to change. This session will address the issues surrounding early cord clamping and how it can be avoided.
Dr David Hutchon will also introduce us to his BASICS resuscitation trolley.
Geraldine Butcher (Consultant Midwife) & Cassy McNamara (IM) - Challenging choices
What do you do when a high risk mother makes a high risk request?
This session will examine innovative ways of supporting women and midwives in providing the best care possible as well as
the obligations midwives actually have when faced with a 'challenging choice’. Geraldine and Cassy will be joined by two
mothers who have made some of these choices including freebirthing and home VBAC following multiple caesarean sections.
An open and honest look at the real and perceived challenges faced by mothers and midwives.
12.15 - 13.30 Lunch & Exhibition
13.30 - 15.00 Keynote Speaker - Prof. Helen Ball - Is Co-Sleeping Wrong?
Prof Helen Ball examines the perception & safety of co-sleeping, separating fact from fiction. Does co-sleeping cause SIDS?
How dangerous is it to share a bed with a baby? How many parents do it? What impact does it have on breastfeeding? What
emotional impact does it have on the baby? Why is it so frowned upon? Do the benefits outweigh the disadvantages? And do the
guidelines need to be revisited?
15.00 - 15.30 Afternoon Break - tea & coffee served + Exhibition
15.30 - 17.00 Keynote Speaker - Ina May Gaskin
Ina May’s Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a
process as old as our species. Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has
gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the
hyper-medicalisation of birth-which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections-and renew
confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.
17.15 End of conference
For over 10 years, Denis Walsh has argued for a move away from a labour progress focus, which has swamped labour care with
an imperative to measure length, and understand it as linear. Clearly, clinical and organizational imperatives create time
pressures in hospitals, but even some obstetrical journals are beginning to note that conventional time constraints are too rigid
and fail to respond to labour’s many variations. In addition, more is known about the ‘‘dance of labour’’ when it is uninterrupted,
involving the delicate interactions of hormones creating labour’s rhythms, the body’s responses, the descent of the baby,
and the natural ‘‘plateaus’’when contractions cease for a while.
10.30 - 11.00 Morning Break - tea, coffee & pastries served + Exhibition
11.00 - 12.15 Concurrent Morning Sessions
Dr David Hutchon & Dr Sheena Kinmond - Avoiding immediate or early cord clamping
SOLD OUT!
Clamping the functioning umbilical cord at birth is an unproved intervention. Lack of awareness of current evidence,
pragmatism, and conflicting guidelines are all preventing change. To prevent further injury to babies we would be better to rush
to change. This session will address the issues surrounding early cord clamping and how it can be avoided.
Dr David Hutchon will also introduce us to his BASICS resuscitation trolley.
Geraldine Butcher (Consultant Midwife) & Cassy McNamara (IM) - Challenging choices
What do you do when a high risk mother makes a high risk request?
This session will examine innovative ways of supporting women and midwives in providing the best care possible as well as
the obligations midwives actually have when faced with a 'challenging choice’. Geraldine and Cassy will be joined by two
mothers who have made some of these choices including freebirthing and home VBAC following multiple caesarean sections.
An open and honest look at the real and perceived challenges faced by mothers and midwives.
12.15 - 13.30 Lunch & Exhibition
13.30 - 15.00 Keynote Speaker - Prof. Helen Ball - Is Co-Sleeping Wrong?
Prof Helen Ball examines the perception & safety of co-sleeping, separating fact from fiction. Does co-sleeping cause SIDS?
How dangerous is it to share a bed with a baby? How many parents do it? What impact does it have on breastfeeding? What
emotional impact does it have on the baby? Why is it so frowned upon? Do the benefits outweigh the disadvantages? And do the
guidelines need to be revisited?
15.00 - 15.30 Afternoon Break - tea & coffee served + Exhibition
15.30 - 17.00 Keynote Speaker - Ina May Gaskin
Ina May’s Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a
process as old as our species. Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has
gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the
hyper-medicalisation of birth-which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections-and renew
confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth.
17.15 End of conference
