PROGRAM
Friday 17th September 2010
8.00am Registration, Tea and Coffee
9.00am Traditional Welcome
9.10am Welcome from ACM (NSW Branch)
– President Joanne Gray
9.20am Keynote Speaker – Michael Nicholl
10.10am ACM update – Avon Strahle
10.45am MORNING TEA
11.15am Consumer – Nadia Szimhart
11.35am Doulas' ‘Filling the gap’ and ‘Taking our role’
– Jeni Stevens/Hannah Dahlen
11.55am Midwives and breastfeeding women: Rocking the
boat or providing a safe haven – Elaine Burns
12.15pm War's long shadow: Impact of war and organised
violence on new mothers and midwives
– Peter King
12.35pm LUNCH
1.35pm Strategic directions for Aboriginal Maternal and
Child Health – Elizabeth Best
1.55pm Drowning not waving: Experiences of health
professionals caring for obese childbearing women
– Virginia Schmied
2.15pm Plodding along behind: Australian fathers expectations
and experiences of childbirth
– Jennifer Fenwick
2.35pm Examining environmental impact: Assessing birth
unit design – Annabel Watson
2.55pm AFTERNOON TEA
3.25pm Throw the life jacket: The drama of psychosocial
screening – Sheryl Sidery
3.45pm Pilot boats and harbour mistresses:
Steering homebirth in the Illawarra – Deb Cameron
4.05pm Celebrities and the child bearing body
– Heike Roth
4.30pm Close of Day One
4.45pm Student Midwife Forum
Saturday 18th September 2010
8.30am Tea and Coffee
9.00am Welcome
9.15am Keynote Speaker – Sue Kruske
10.00am In 'limbo' – Women's experience of having a
hysterectomy after childbirth
– Rakime Elmir
10.20am MORNING TEA
10.50am Berthing safely: Addressing obesity in pregnancy
SSWInG and POWERing Midwives
11.10am Providing a safe harbour - sailing the practice development
journey – J Donsante, V Elder, R Lawrence
11.30am Politics and the pecking order: new graduate
midwives experiences of their clinical work
environment – Athena Hammond
11.50am AGM
1.30pm LUNCH
2.30pm Raffles and Presentations
2.40pm Facilitators and inhibitors of physiological birth
positioning – Hannah Dahlen
3.05pm Update on AMOSS: A surveillance system looking at
rare and serious conditions in pregnancy
– Geraldine Vaughan
3.25pm Too many ports in a storm: Providing protection for
vulnerable women
– Louise Everitt
3.45pm Creating Connections: Women's experience of
participating in a creative activities program
during childbirth – Jennifer Fenwick
4.10pm Summary
4.15pm Close of Day Two