NSW Midwives Association's Annual State Conference 2008, October 17th & 18th, Novotel Pacific Bay Resort, Coffs Harbour. MIDWIVES BUSINESS: Peeling Back the Layers
PROGRAM
Friday 17th October 2008
9.00 am Traditional Welcome
9.10 am Welcome from NSWMA President – Caroline Homer
9.20 am Keynote Speaker – Mary Chiarella
10.05 am Listening and Sharing Knowledge with Women – Claire Simmonds
10.25 am Midwifery Education: The Responsibility of the Whole Bunch not just a Handful – Julie Mate
10.45 am Morning Tea
11.15 am Rapid PCR technology for Group B Streptococci – Cheryl Wallace
11.35 am TIMTAM's - Teenage Information Mornings Teens As Mums and other programs in Kempsey
– Fiona Simpson and Michelle O'Brien
11.55 am Tiered Networks: Strengthening the layers – Ann Kinnear
12.15 pm Beneath the Gloss – Leah Whitehead
12.35 pm LUNCH
13.35 pm Layers of evidence - a contemporary debate on obesity in pregnancy – Jane Raymond
13.55 pm So you think you need more midwives – Marie Washbrook
14.15 pm Fathers' experience of emergency caesarean birth: Impact on subsequent births – Marjon McNamara
14.35 pm What does the banana look like from the inside?? – Jenny Mathew
14.55 pm Afternoon Tea
15.25 pm The truth and understanding about women in Islam – Reem Najjar
15.45 pm Our Sister's War: Being "With Women" in East Timor – Sue England
16.05 pm Midwives using photos to engage with pregnant women: Peeling back the layers of social conditioning – Nicky Leap
16.30 pm Close of Day One
16.45 pm Student Midwife Forum
Saturday 18th October 2008
8.30 am Tea and Coffee
9.00 am Welcome
9.15 am Keynote Speaker – Maralyn Foureur
10.00 am Leaving the chrysalis, learning to fly – Vanessa Clements
10.20 am Morning Tea
10.50 am Journey of the Coffs Harbour Health Campus, Pregnancy Care Service 2008 – Vikki Fogarty and Jenny Darby
11.10 am Osteopathy, Pregnancy and Childbirth – Caroline Stone
11.30 am Are bananas addictive? – Corrine Maynard
11.50 am AGM – Open Forum
13.30 pm LUNCH
14.30 pm Raffles and Presentations
14.40 pm 'The Novice Birthing': How can midwives facilitate the first birth? – Hannah Dahlen
15.00 pm Supporting normal birth in a tertiary centre – Jo Brown, Karen Besley and Kate Pigott
15.30 pm With Your Feet on the Ground and Your Eyes on the Horizon – Deborah Davis
15.50 pm Home is where the heart is – Shea Caplice
16.10 pm Summary
16.15 pm Farewells