La Leche League  AB/NWT Area Conference

"Celebrating Mothers"

Red Deer, AB - May 8 - 9, 2010

Keynote by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, MA, Doctoral Cand.

Sessions for CERPs available for health care professionals on Saturday, May 8th

Professional Session Speakers include:

Anu Chiarelli, RN, BA, MA, Jacki Glover, RN, MN, IBCLC, RLC, 

Jennifer Peddlesden, BScPharm, IBCLC, RLC  and Maureen Fjeld, IBCLC, RLC

Registration and Conference Information

Parry Sound District Health Unit

Breastfeeding Education Update  -   May 7, 2010

 Dr. James Murphy,  MD   Breastfeeding and Tongue Tie

 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, a Board Member of the San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition, a Medical Associate of La Leche League and a member of ILCA.  Dr Murphy began performing lingual frenulotomies in November 2003 and has performed over 700 of these procedures to date including posterior sub-mucosal fibrous bands.

 Other Speakers

Louise Gagne, Epidemiologist, North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit

Self Efficacy and Breastfeeding

 Pam Robinson, Pharmacist, Robinson’s Pharmasave

Effect of Intrapartum and Intraoperative Medications on Breastfeeding

Nipissing University

100 College Drive, North Bay, ON

Contact: Anne Marie Westenenk

Phone: 705-474-1400 ext 2285

E-mail: amw@nbdhu.on.ca 

"PROTECTION AND SUPPORT OF BREASTFEEDING"

 Please find below the preliminary programme of the trilingual VELB/ILCA conference 

at Basel, Switzerland in October 2010.

European Lactation Consultant Association

Registration PDF Information in English

The Canadian Association of Midwives is pleased to announce its 10th AGM, Conference & Exhibit:

The Place of Birth
October 6-7-8, 2010
Sutton Place Hotel
Edmonton Alberta

The Canadian Association of Midwives Annual Conference in 2010 will focus on a theme that is inspiring new research, passion and debate in maternity care and research circles in many countries today: The Place of Birth. Invited Canadian and international speakers will bring current findings and expert perspectives on various birth settings, the safety of home birth and the impact of birthplace on maternity care politics, practices and outcomes.

Information

March 3, 2010
Official launch of the Birthing the World website!

BIRTHING THE WORLD – Conference on Best Practices in Perinatal Care is a unique invitation to explore and reflect upon, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the multiple dimensions of the early period of life. This event is intended as a major step forward in how we conceive and perceive perinatal care. It is a unique opportunity for perinatal care practitioners of all stripes to come together around common issues relating to childbirth, breastfeeding and becoming parents, to share their knowledge with one another and to concert their efforts for the benefit of pregnant women and their families.

The conference is unique in that it will draw to one location a broad array of perinatal care practitioners who, though operating in the same field, rarely get the chance to share their experiences and questions. BIRTHING THE WORLD will be held at the Quebec City Convention Centre, November 25-26, 2010. It is being organized by the Association pour la santé publique du Québec (ASPQ) in partnership with the Association des omnipraticiens en périnatalité du Québec (AOPQ), the Regroupement Les Sages-femmes du Québec (RSFQ) and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC).

Birthing the World website launched!
We are pleased to announce that the Birthing the World website is up and running! We did our utmost to create a visually appealing site to bring you all you need to know about the event and more. You can now navigate among its pages to keep abreast of the latest news and developments concerning BTW

Call for presentations now open
You can now submit your proposals for oral or poster presentations to the BTW Scientific Committee. You have until this April 14 to forward an abstract. To find out all there is to know about the themes being covered, the submission process, the selection criteria, key dates, and so on, visit our website by clicking on the following link: Call for presentations.

Online registration
Please note that it will be possible to register online for Birthing the World in early spring 2010. Visit our website regularly in order to take advantage of our “early bird” special!