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Photo by Holly Priddis

As President of the Australian College of Midwives, I am delighted to welcome you to the 11th Inter-national Normal Labour and Birth Conference. For the first time this important conference will be held in Australia and hosted by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Western Sydney and the Australian College of Midwives. I was fortunate to attend one of the first Normal Labour and Birth Conference held in the beautiful Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria, England. It was an amazing confer-ence – I had not experienced the level of thoughtful discussion and debate about the importance of normal labour and birth at a conference previously. As a star-struck Aussie midwife, it was also like being at the Oscars of the Midwifery World as many of the amazing midwives that I had only ever read were there and sharing their wisdom, research and stories. It was also a lot of fun and I have fond memories of sitting on the lawn of the lovely venue having. I have watched this fabulous event mature and develop over time and it is now the premier international conference about labour and birth and a must for all who work alongside women giving birth. I am therefore, absolutely thrilled that the 11th Conference will be held ‘down-under’ in beautiful Sydney at a gorgeous time of the year – our spring and we are really pleased to be in partnership with the team at Western Sydney University. I encour-age you to start making plans to head to Sydney – start planning your abstracts now! I look forward to seeing you in Sydney in October 2016.

Welcome from the Chair,Professor Hannah Dahlen

Welcome from the Australian College of Midwives President, Professor Caroline Homer

As Chairperson for the 11th International Normal Labour and Birth Conference (NLBC) I am thrilled to welcome you to Sydney in 2016 to participate in one of the best conferences in the world. This conference will be hosted by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University in association with the Australian College of Midwives. The NLBC conference was founded by Profes-sor Soo Downe from UCLAN and it has grown in reputation over the past 11 years. Every second year it leaves its lovely home in Grange-over-Sands in the English Lake District and goes to another country. The conference has now been held in Canada, China, Brazil, and in 2016 we will host it in Sydney. I have been going to the International Normal Labour and Birth Conference since 2010 and have persistently advocated for Australia to be a host, as I know how many wonderful researchers and passionate midwives, doctors and consumers we have working for normal birth in this country. We will have a wonderful line up of speakers including 10 keynote speakers (midwives, obstetri-cians, lawyers, scientits and consumers), 100 oral presentations, 70 posters and nine workshops. The conference will be held at Waterview located in Bicentennial Park, Sydney Olympic Park. The conference will address social, cultural, physiological, psychological, emotional and spiritual as-pects of labour and birth. It will examine new developments in the current evidence based on the nature of and cultures around birth, and on associated processes and outcomes of labour and birth. Papers will cover primary and secondary research, methodological debates, and new philos-ophies and constructs in this area. Don’t miss this amazing event. I look forward to seeing you Down-Under!

Keynote speakersProfessor Eugene DeclercqEugene Declercq is the Professor of Community Health Sciences and Assistant Dean for DrPH Education at the Boston University School of Public Health and professor on the faculty of Obstetrics and Gyne-cology at the Boston University School of Medicine. He has served as lead author of national reports on women’s experiences in childbirth and in the postpartum period entitled Listening to Mothers I, II & II-Iand New Mothers Speak Out and is the founder of the website www.birthbythenumbers.org. He is one of the Principal Investigators for the Massachusetts Outcomes Study of Assisted Reproductive Technolo-gies (MOSART) an NIH funded study of infant and maternal outcomes associated with assisted reproductive technologies. He was awarded the 2013 Martha May Eliot award from the American Public Health As-sociation for service to maternal and child health in the U.S.

Kerstin Uvnäs MobergKerstin Uvnäs Moberg is an MD, PhD from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and a full professor of physiology at the University of Agri-culture. She has published more than 450 peer reviewed original and review papers and supervised more than 30 PhD students. She spent her 10 first year as a scientist within the field of gastrointestinal phys-iology with a particular interest in the endocrine system of the gastro-intestinal tract and the role of the vagal nerve. In the beginning of the 1980 ies her research focus shifted to the physiology and psychology of oxytocin based on animal experiments and clinical studies. The role of sensory stimulation such as touch, warmth and stroking, for the release of oxytocin was studied in animal experiments. The release and role of oxytocin during labor, skin-to-skin contact, lactation and other types of relationships was studied in clinical studies.Recent research topics include the role of oxytocin in human animal interactions and the role of human animal interactions on wellbeing and health and also the beneficial role of oxytocin in menopause.She has published several books, e.g. the oxytocin factor and the hor-mone of closeness and oxytocin the biological guide to motherhood.

Dr Sarah BuckleyDr Sarah Buckley is a qualified GP with training in GP obstetrics, and is currently a full-time writer and lecturer on pregnancy, birth and parent-ing. She is the author of the internationally best-selling book Gentle Birth. Gentle Mothering, (Celestial Arts/Penguin Random House, 2009) and is also the mother of four children.Sarah has a special interest in hormonal physiology and was commis-sioned by Childbirth Connection (US) to write a scientific report on this topic. Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing was published in January 2015 by Childbirth Connection, now a program of the National Partner-ship for Women and Families, with support from DONA International and Lamaze International. This report has been described as “…one of the most revolutionary and influential publications on maternity and newborn care ever issued.”Sarah is committed to the best possible outcomes for mothers, babies, fathers and families in relation to hormonal physiology in childbearing and is currently also pursuing a PhD on this topic.

Professor Caroline HomerCaroline is the President of the Australian College of Midwives. She was the first President to be publicly elected, has been an active mem-ber of ACM for more than 18 years and has served on many national and state-based committees.In her day job, she is the Director of the Centre for Midwifery, Child and Family Health, Director of Midwifery Studies and the Associate Dean for International and Development in the Faculty of Health at the University of Technology Sydney. She has led research into the development and implementation of innovative models of midwifery care and the translation of research into clinical practice and holds ARC and NHMRC grants. She has been involved in the development and evaluation of midwifery and maternity services in Australia and in in a number of other countries in the Asia Pacific region, including Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Timor Leste. She was an author in the Lancet Series of Midwifery and the 2014 State of the World’s Midwifery Report.

Professor Alec WelshQualifications: GAICD MBBS MSc PhD FRCOG(MFM) FRANZCOG CMFM DDUProfessor Welsh is a subspecialist in Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) with Masters and PhD degrees in Digital Imaging and Fetal Imaging. He is an active clinician in both obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine, and is a strong believer in collaboration between midwives and obste-tricians in maternity care. He runs a Fetal Imaging Research team of ten at UNSW and coordinates the Perinatal Academic Group at RHW. He helped to establish the NSW Fetal Therapy Centre at the Royal Hospital for Women and performs laser therapy for twin-twin-transfusion syn-drome as well as all other fetal procedures. Within the fetal medicine and fetal imaging research community, Professor Welsh has multiple collaborations including research groups of the Universities of Oxford, Sao Paolo, Michigan & Baylor College of Medicine. He has approxi-mately 75 peer-reviewed publications.

Professor Maralyn FoureurA midwife for 40 years and academic for the past 20, Maralyn Foureur is Professor of Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She is one of an inspiring team of midwives who prepare graduates to competently and compassionately care for women during pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting. In 1984 Maralyn set up the first inde-pendent midwifery practice in Australia with visiting rights to maternity hospitals in Newcastle, NSW. This was the inspiration for one of the first randomised controlled trials of continuity of midwifery care (un-der her previous surname Rowley); a study that now forms part of the Cochrane systematic review of this model of care. With a record of 100 publications and more than $5 million in research grants, Maralyn is regarded as a world leader in researching birth unit design and its im-pact on childbearing women and families and the quality and safety of maternity care provided by midwives. Her research findings have been translated into the design of several new Australian maternity units in Sydney, Canberra and Townsville and she is currently part of a team of researchers in Denmark undertaking a randomised controlled trial in this area.“My lifetime research has contributed knowledge to understanding how relationship based care and an optimally-designed birth unit provide the best environment for labour and birth to unfold.”

Sheena Byrom OBESheena Byrom is a practising midwife, and worked within the NHS for more than 35 years. Sheena was one of the UK’s first consultant midwives, and as a head of midwifery successfully helped to lead the development of three birth centres in East Lancashire. Sheena is a Board member of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), a member of the RCM’s Better Births initiative, Patron of StudentMidwife.Net and Chair of the Iolanthe Midwifery Trust. Currently Sheena is working as a midwifery expert at North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, and is one of the project leads for a new exciting development, the Midwife-ry Unit Network.Sheena’s midwifery memoirs, Catching Babies, is a Sunday Times best-seller, and her absolute passion is promoting normal physiological birth, and a positive childbirth experience for all women. Her latest book, The Roar Behind the Silence: why kindness, compassion and respect matter in maternity care is jointly edited with Soo Downe, and together they hope the book will used as a resource to promote positive child-birth throughout the world. Sheena was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to midwifery, and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Midwives in 2015. Sheena actively lobbies for maternity service im-provements through several social media channels. Sheena is currently a midwife consultant, and lectures nationally and internationally on mid-wifery and childbirth related topics. Her personal and midwifery related website is sheenabyrom.com.

Professor Sally TracySally Tracy is the Professor of Midwifery at the University of Sydney and conjoint Professor, School of Women’s and Children’s Health, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW. She leads the Midwifery and Women’s Health Re-search Unit based at the Royal Hospital for Women. Her research proj-ects funded by the NHMRC include the randomised controlled trial of caseload midwifery care, the M@NGO trial; the EMU study, evaluating midwifery led units in New Zealand and Australia; and more recently the amniotic fluid lactate study and the Birth on Country partnership grant with the University of Queensland.

Professor Sue KildeaSue Kildea holds a clinical chair in midwifery and is a joint appoint-ment between the Mater Health Services Brisbane and the University of Queensland. She has clinical, management, policy, education and research experience across both acute and primary health care set-tings. Sue is a strong collaborative researcher and many of her research projects aim to make a difference to the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. Together with a Senior Elder from Maningrida in Arnhem Land she was a joint recipient of the UTS Human Rights Award for contribution to advancing reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians (2004). Sue is a strong proponent of normal birth and returning birth to the rural, remote and primary care setting.

Andrew BisitsAndrew Bisits has been in full time obstetrics since 1984. Andrew is currently the medical co director of maternity services at the Royal Hos-pital for Women in Randwick Sydney a tertiary maternity service where 4100 babies are born each year.He did his training in Newcastle, NSW , Australia and worked there for 23 years . During that time he developed a strong interest in models of maternity care that supported normal birth , hence the focus on midwifery teams, primary midwifery and midwifery group practices. He has had a clinical,research and didactic interest in any area of obstetrics which minimises interventions and maximises the possibility of a safe and normal birth. Since the planning of the term breech trial he has looked at various ways of maintaining the capacity to offer vaginal breech birth where appropriate. A large part of this has involved looking at ways to increase the possibility of physiological breech birth. Andrew has research interests in statistics particularly the area of formal causal inference using observational data. He is a keen teacher .

Bashi HazardBashi Hazard is an Australian lawyer and the principal of B W Law, a legal practice directed at assisting women and children in Australia, and Board Director of Human Rights in Childbirth (HRiC). Bashi has repre-sented families and individuals in coronial inquests, statutory investiga-tions and in commercial litigation. She has also worked on healthcare policy and human rights based fact-finding reports both in Australia and internationally.Bashi’s background is in competition and consumer law, developed while working for several years with Allens in Sydney, immediately after graduating with first class honours in Law and Economics from the University of Sydney. Bashi has written and spoken on issues relating to competition and trade practices law, legal professional privilege, the human and constitutional rights of free speech, and women and repro-ductive rights, particularly in relation the human right to bodily integrity and informed consent.Bashi is mother to 3 amazing young children, teaches ethics to primary school aged children and grows orchids.

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min

utes

and

6 m

inut

es d

iscu

ssio

n17

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18:0

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hoda

nthe

Lip

sett

Indi

geno

us M

idw

ifery

Cha

ritab

le F

und

even

t

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12t

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er 2

016

08:3

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09:0

0-09

:10

09:1

0-09

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09:4

5-10

:15

10:1

5-10

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Reg

istr

atio

n –

tea

and

coffe

e on

arr

ival

Wel

com

e fr

om C

hair

Key

note

Add

ress

- Pr

ofes

sor S

ally

Tra

cy a

nd P

rofe

ssor

Ale

c W

elsh

“W

orki

ng to

geth

er fo

r nor

mal

birt

h”K

eyno

te A

ddre

ss –

Dr A

ndre

w B

isits

– “

Can

bre

ech

birt

h be

nor

mal

birt

h?”

Ref

resh

men

t Bre

ak10

:50-

12:3

0C

oncu

rren

t Ses

sion

3:

Sess

ion

bree

ch b

irth

Cha

ngin

g th

e sy

stem

Wor

ksho

pW

orks

hop

Roo

mR

oom

Roo

mR

oom

1.Sh

awn

Wal

ker

Inte

ntio

n, id

entit

y an

d re

spon

sibi

lity:

A g

roun

ded

theo

ry s

tudy

con

cern

ing

phys

iolo

gica

l bre

ech

birth

sk

ill ac

quis

ition

2.3.

Shu-

Wen

A de

cisi

on-m

akin

g m

odel

re

gard

ing

birth

cho

ices

fo

llow

ing

a pr

evio

us c

ae-

sare

an d

eliv

ery

4.M

ary

Sher

idan

Supp

ort f

or v

agin

al

bree

ch b

irth

at te

rm: F

ind-

ings

from

the

UK

“Thi

nk

Bree

ch” a

mix

ed m

etho

ds

stud

y5.

Kar

ol P

etro

vska

Sear

chin

g fo

r aut

onom

y:

An in

tern

atio

nal q

uant

i-ta

tive

surv

ey o

f wom

en’s

expe

ctat

ions

and

ex-

perie

nces

sur

roun

ding

pl

anne

d va

gina

l bre

ech

birth

1.Tr

acey

Coo

per

Usi

ng e

vide

nce

for t

rans

for-

mat

iona

l cha

nge

2.Ly

ndel

Gra

yTr

ansl

atio

n of

nor

mal

labo

ur

and

birth

rese

arch

: The

im

-pl

emen

tatio

n of

a s

tate

wid

e no

rmal

birt

h gu

idel

ine

3.Lo

rna

Dav

ies

Barri

ers

to s

usta

inab

ility

in

mid

wife

ry p

ract

ice

4.H

anifa

tur R

osyi

dah

Wom

en a

nd m

idw

ives

’ sat

is-

fact

ion

with

the

expe

rienc

e of

ch

ildbi

rth: A

qua

litat

ive

stud

y5.

Elin

Ter

nstr

om

Hig

her p

reva

lenc

e of

chi

ld-

birth

rela

ted

fear

in fo

reig

n bo

rn p

regn

ant w

omen

: Fi

ndin

gs fr

om a

com

mun

ity

sam

ple

in S

wed

en

Mar

y N

ewbu

rnM

idw

ifery

Uni

t N

etw

ork:

Build

ing

capa

city

and

con

-fid

ence

thro

ugh

diss

emin

atio

n an

d so

cial

med

ia n

et-

wor

king

Jane

San

dall

Impl

emen

ting

and

scal

-in

g up

sus

tain

able

con

-tin

uity

mod

els

of c

are:

A

wor

ksho

p on

pra

ctic

al

appl

icat

ion

and

theo

ret-

ical

und

erpi

nnin

gs fr

om

impl

emen

tatio

n sc

ienc

e

Mod

els

of c

are

Roo

m

1.M

iche

lle N

ewto

nU

nder

stan

ding

how

cas

eloa

d w

orks

:Can

theo

ry h

elp?

2.K

ate

Daw

son

Cas

eloa

d m

idw

ifery

in A

ustra

-lia

: Wha

t acc

ess

do w

omen

ha

ve?

3.H

ilde

Perd

ok-v

anO

pini

ons

of p

rofe

ssio

nals

ab

out i

nteg

ratin

g m

idw

ife-le

d an

d o

bste

trici

an-le

d ca

re in

th

e N

ethe

rland

s 4.

Susa

n C

row

ther

Con

tinui

ty o

f car

er in

rura

l re

gion

s ca

n he

lp k

eep

birth

sa

fe a

nd n

orm

al y

et n

eeds

to

be s

usta

inab

le5.

Alli

son

Cum

min

sW

hat a

re th

e ex

perie

nces

of

new

gra

duat

e m

idw

ives

wor

k-in

g in

mid

wife

ry c

ontin

uity

of

care

mod

els?

Cul

tura

l und

erst

andi

ngPe

rspe

ctiv

es o

n la

bour

an

d bi

rth

Qua

lity

mat

erni

ty c

are

Wor

ksho

pR

oom

Roo

mR

oom

Roo

m

1.Su

ha H

usse

inTh

e ba

rrier

s an

d fa

cilit

a-to

rs o

f int

rodu

cing

evi

-de

nce-

base

d pr

actic

es

arou

nd th

e us

e of

epi

siot

-om

y in

Jor

dan

2.M

arya

m B

azar

gan

An o

verv

iew

of c

hild

-birt

h in

Iran

: Who

doe

s th

e m

ater

nity

car

e sy

stem

se

rve?

3.M

arg

Doc

king

Embr

acin

g th

e tra

ditio

nal

mal

e le

ader

ship

in U

gan-

da to

impr

ove

birth

out

-co

mes

.4.

Enda

ng K

oni S

urya

n-in

gsih

Indo

nesi

an v

ersi

on o

f Pr

enat

al A

ttach

men

t In

vent

ory:

A p

relim

inar

y St

udy

5.D

oree

n B

alab

anof

fEm

bodi

ed d

esig

n fo

r bi

rthsp

ace

1.Sa

rah

Nor

risC

ogni

tive

appr

entic

eshi

p in

a

mid

wife

ry le

d un

it:Th

e te

ach-

ing

and

lear

ning

exp

erie

nce

of m

idw

ifery

men

tors

and

st

uden

t mid

wiv

es2.

Meg

Hitc

hick

Wal

king

with

a fo

ot in

eac

h w

orld

: Stu

dent

s’ ex

perie

nces

of

dea

ling

with

the

divi

de b

e-tw

een

theo

ry a

nd p

ract

ice.

3.M

echt

hild

Gro

ssTh

e lo

ngitu

dina

l ana

lysi

s of

ca

re d

urin

g la

bour

: The

mid

-w

ifery

per

spec

tive

4.M

aggi

e R

edsh

awW

hich

wom

en a

re a

ctua

lly

aske

d ab

out t

heir

men

tal

heal

th in

pre

gnan

cy a

nd th

e po

stna

tal p

erio

d? F

indi

ngs

from

a n

atio

nal s

urve

y5.

Mic

helle

But

ler

Expl

orin

g pa

ttern

s of

nor

mal

bi

rth in

Brit

ish

Col

umbi

an

data

set

s

1.Le

sley

Pag

eR

elat

ions

hips

: The

key

to

safe

, hig

h qu

ality

mat

er-

nity

car

e.2.

Sally

Cus

ack

Wom

en tu

rnin

g th

e tid

e:

How

a ru

ral b

irthi

ng s

er-

vice

was

sav

ed3.

Mar

y N

ewbu

rnSe

rvic

e us

er in

volv

e-m

ent:

Wom

en c

hang

ing

serv

ices

4.Ja

ne S

anda

llVa

riatio

n in

hea

lthy

ma-

tern

al a

nd n

ewbo

rn b

irth

outc

omes

in E

ngla

nd:

The

influ

ence

of o

rgan

-is

atio

nal,

staf

fing

and

wom

en’s

back

grou

nd

char

acte

ristic

s

5.Je

nny

Parr

atC

are

in th

e fir

st 3

0 m

in-

utes

afte

r birt

h: W

hat d

o Au

stra

lian

wom

en w

ant

mat

erni

ty c

are

prov

ider

s to

kno

w?

Rhe

a D

emps

ey

Pain

dyn

amic

s an

d ph

ys-

iolo

gica

l birt

h

Wor

ksho

pR

oom

Nig

el L

eeSt

erile

wat

er in

jec-

tions

for p

ain

in la

bour

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0-14

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13:3

0-14

:00

14:0

0-15

:40

Lunc

hFo

rmal

Pos

ter V

iew

ing

(pos

ters

acc

ompa

nied

by

post

er a

utho

rs)

Con

curr

ent S

essi

on 4

:

15:4

0-16

:10

16:1

0-17

:10

19:0

0-23

:00

Key

note

add

ress

– S

ue K

ildea

(Titl

e TB

N)

Pech

a K

ucha

: max

4 =

24

min

utes

and

6 m

inut

es d

iscu

ssio

nD

inne

r

Day

Thr

ee T

hurs

day

13th

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ober

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608

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09:0

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11:0

011

:00-

12:4

0

Reg

istr

atio

n an

d te

a an

d co

ffee

on a

rriv

alW

elco

me

by C

hair

and

“It i

s ra

inin

g O

xyto

cin”

Key

note

add

ress

-Pro

fess

or K

erst

in U

vnas

Mob

erg

- The

Oxy

toci

n Fa

ctor

Key

note

Add

ress

Pro

fess

or M

aral

yn F

oure

ur “

How

birt

h sp

ace

can

influ

ence

nor

mal

birt

h”M

orni

ng te

aC

oncu

rren

t Ses

sion

5:

Birt

h is

sues

Labo

ur a

nd b

irth

Safe

car

eW

orks

hop

Roo

mR

oom

Roo

mR

oom

1.R

ache

l Ree

dTr

aum

atic

chi

ldbi

rth:

Wom

en’s

desc

riptio

ns o

f ca

re p

rovi

der a

ctio

ns a

nd

inte

ract

ions

2.Ju

lia L

einw

eber

Post

traum

atic

stre

ss in

Au

stra

lian

mid

wiv

es:

Prev

alen

ce a

nd ri

sk fa

c-to

rs3

Birg

itta

Lars

son

Cou

nsel

ing

for c

hild

-bi

rth-re

late

d fe

ar:E

valu

a-tio

n an

d a

natio

nal o

ver-

view

4.Ja

mes

Har

risAs

sess

ing

the

barri

ers

and

faci

litat

ors

of th

e im

-pl

emen

tatio

n of

del

ayed

co

rd c

lam

ping

: A q

ualit

a-tiv

e sy

nthe

sis

5. R

akim

e El

mir

Nor

mal

isin

g bi

rth: A

ustra

-lia

n m

idw

ives

resp

onse

s to

obs

tetri

c em

erge

ncie

s

1. A

nk d

e Jo

nge

Num

bers

nee

ded

to c

heat

: Se

nse

and

nons

ense

abo

ut

the

safe

ty o

f birt

hs p

lann

ed

in p

rimar

y ca

re a

nd o

ut o

f ho

spita

l2.

Jenn

ifer V

ande

rlaan

Neo

nata

l out

com

es w

ith h

os-

pita

l wat

erbi

rth3.

Jane

Hen

ders

onW

omen

’s ex

perie

nce

of e

arly

la

bour

: A m

ixed

met

hods

st

udy

4. M

elis

sa C

heyn

eyM

ater

nal a

nd n

ewbo

rn o

ut-

com

es fo

llow

ing

wat

erbi

rth:

The

Mid

wiv

es A

llianc

e of

N

orth

Am

eric

a st

atis

tics

proj

-ec

t, 20

04 to

200

9 co

hort

5. M

elis

sa C

heyn

eyPl

anne

d H

ome

VBAC

in th

e U

nite

d St

ates

, 200

4-20

09:

Out

com

es, m

ater

nity

car

e pr

actic

es, a

nd im

plic

atio

ns fo

r sh

ared

dec

isio

n m

akin

g

1.M

agda

lena

Oha

jaN

orm

al a

nd/o

r saf

e ch

ildbi

rth: a

sou

thea

st

Nig

eria

n pe

rspe

ctiv

e2.

Jane

Win

esC

ould

the

mid

wiv

es

of B

ritis

h C

olum

bia

bene

fit fr

om a

mod

el o

f m

idw

ifery

sup

ervi

sion

?3.

Deb

orah

Fox

Birth

plac

e in

Aus

tralia

: Q

ualit

ativ

e pe

rspe

c-tiv

es o

n in

trapa

rtum

tra

nsfe

r fro

m p

lann

ed

hom

ebirt

h to

hos

pita

l4.

Chr

istin

e C

atlin

gTh

e cu

lture

of m

idw

ife-

ry in

Aus

tralia

5.H

olly

Pow

ell K

en-

nedy

Qua

lity

mat

erna

l and

ne

wbo

rn c

are

and

the

cont

ribut

ion

of m

id-

wife

ry: E

stab

lishi

ng

rese

arch

prio

ritie

s

Wom

en a

nd B

irth

and

Mid

wife

ry

wor

ksho

p on

writ

ing

for p

ublic

atio

n

Com

plex

issu

esR

oom

1.M

alin

Edq

vist

Mid

wiv

es m

anag

emen

t dur

ing

the

seco

nd s

tage

of l

abor

in re

la-

tion

to p

erin

eal i

njur

ies

2. D

ella

Fos

ter

Tren

ds in

epi

siot

omy

rate

s am

ongs

t pro

vide

rs a

nd a

cros

s O

ASIS

risk

sco

res:

A 1

0-ye

ar

retro

spec

tive

stud

y fro

m a

te

rtiar

y ho

spita

l in

Mel

bour

ne,

Aust

ralia

3.Je

ffrey

Cra

igC

an tw

ins

have

a n

orm

al b

irth?

4.H

anna

h D

ahle

nTh

e re

latio

nshi

p be

twee

n ea

rly

birth

, cae

sare

an s

ectio

n an

d m

ater

nal m

enta

l hea

lth a

nd

gast

ro-o

esop

hage

al re

flux

in in

-fa

nts

adm

itted

to h

ospi

tal i

n th

e fir

st 1

2 m

onth

s fo

llow

ing

birth

in

NSW

(200

0-20

11)

5. M

aria

do

Car

mo

Leal

Prov

ider

-initi

ated

late

pre

term

bi

rths

in B

razi

l: D

iffer

ence

s be

-tw

een

publ

ic a

nd p

rivat

e he

alth

se

ctor

s

12:4

0-13

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Lunc

h

Film

– T

he M

idw

ife In

side

by

Shea

Cap

lice

13:3

0-14

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Form

al P

oste

r Vie

win

g (p

oste

rs a

ccom

pani

ed b

y po

ster

aut

hors

)14

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15:3

0C

oncu

rren

t Ses

sion

6:

Hum

an ri

ghts

in c

hild

-bo

rth

choi

ceB

reas

tfeed

ing

and

new

born

hea

lthSu

ppor

ting

mid

wiv

esLa

bour

and

birt

hTB

CR

oom

Roo

mR

oom

Roo

m

1.Zo

e M

iller

-Ved

amIs

ther

e a

hum

an ri

ght

to p

hysi

olog

ic b

irth?

The

Eu

rope

an C

ourt

of H

u-m

an R

ight

s an

d ac

cess

to

hom

e bi

rth.

2.W

endy

Klin

eW

hen

lega

l mec

hani

sms

fail:

Act

ivis

m a

nd th

e up

-hi

ll ba

ttle

for r

epro

duct

ive

just

ice

3.Vi

cki V

an W

agne

rD

efini

ng n

orm

al b

irth

4.Si

lvan

a G

rana

doPr

egna

ncy

and

birth

ca

re ra

cial

ineq

ualit

ies

in

Braz

il5.

Reb

ecca

Jen

kins

onSu

ppor

ting

wom

en’s

auto

nom

y: L

esso

ns fr

om

one

terti

ary

hosp

ital

1.La

ura

God

frey

-Isaa

csFr

om T

he M

adon

na to

Br

elfie

s: R

epre

sent

a-tio

ns o

f the

bre

ast a

nd

brea

stfe

edin

g, a

nd h

ow

the

cont

empo

rary

pub

lic

perfo

rman

ce o

f bre

ast-

feed

ing,

act

s as

a fo

rm o

f cu

ltura

l res

ista

nce

2.Vi

rgin

ia S

chm

ied

Expl

orin

g In

dian

-bor

n m

igra

nt w

omen

’s in

ten-

tions

and

exp

erie

nces

of

birth

and

infa

nt fe

edin

g in

Au

stra

lia3.

Kaj

sa B

rimdy

rW

hy b

irth

mat

ters

: The

im

pact

of e

pidu

rals

on

new

born

beh

avio

r4.

Kaj

sa B

rimdy

rW

hy b

irth

mat

ters

: The

im

pact

of s

ynth

etic

oxy

to-

cin

on n

ewbo

rn b

ehav

ior

1.El

izab

eth

New

n-ha

m

The

circ

le o

f tru

st:

New

dev

elop

men

ts

in m

idw

ifery

theo

ry

for s

uppo

rting

nor

mal

bi

rth2.

Fion

a M

cArt

hur

The

Mid

wife

’s St

ory

3.El

aine

Bur

nsN

orm

alis

ing

brea

st-

feed

ing:

Mid

wife

ry

lang

uage

and

pra

ctic

-es

dur

ing

brea

stfe

ed-

ing

supp

ort

4.A

lison

Tea

teEx

plor

atio

n of

sto

ry-

tellin

g in

ant

enat

al

care

5.M

iche

lle B

utle

rEx

plor

ing

patte

rns

of

norm

al b

irth

in B

ritis

h C

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Day One Posters Tuesday 11th James Harris Engagement in the research process for undergraduate midwifery students: The

role of the clinical auditC.orine Verhoeven The effect of continuous support of women in labour by primary care midwives on

referral rates during labour in The NetherlandsYing-Chen Tseng The effectiveness of rooming-in education program on execution time and the

breastfeeding-related indicatorsSaraswathi Vedam Giving voice to mothers of color

Tracey Cooper What do women and midwives think that a midwife does: A feminist technoscience perspective

Tanya Capper Sharing midwifery students experiences of normal birth

Susanne Ahlund Complications and birth satisfaction three weeks after birth: A comparison between two methods for midwives’ management of second stage of labour

Tanya Capper Sharing midwifery students experiences of normal birth

Shaista Rahim Strengthening clinical and business skills of community midwives to help establish their private practice: A study from Sindh, Pakistan

Susanne Darra Coping help and coherence in ‘normal’ childbirth

Sarah Pallett Umbilical cord clamping: Working together to improve practice

Robyn Maude Can early pregnancy probiotic supplementation reduce the rate of gestational diabe-tes?

Peggy Seehafer Static terms for a multifactorial influenced process of body movements during birth

Pei-Chi Liu An exploration of parental expectations, experiences and reactions and grade of anxiety related to routine ultrasound examination in Taiwan

Pascale Pagola Davis

Prenatal education in private health in Chile: Empowering couples and promoting normal birth

Ingvild Aune Experiential factors promoting a normal birth and a positive birth experience

Jutta Wohlrab NLP and hypnosis in childbirth creating the right inner vision

Helen Watson Discrimination against childbearing Romani women and their infants in maternity care in Europe

Helen Haines Continuity of midwifery care for rural women through caseload group practice: Deliv-ering for almost 20 years

Federico Girosi Economic analysis of the Complete Birth Study: A randomised controlled trial of an-tenatal integrative medicine for pain management in labour

Helen Hall Mindfulness and perinatal mental health

Meei-Ling Gau Efficacy of ergonomics ankle support aid for squatting position on pushing skills and birth outcomes during the second stage of labor

Margareta Johans-son

Swedish fathers contemplate the difficulties they face in parenthood

Margareta Johans-son

Swedish fathers’ experiences of childbirth in relation to maternal birth position: A mixed method study

Margaret Flood How accurately do midwives report postpartum haemorrhage in Victoria?

Mary-Ann Davey Risk factors for excessive blood loss in the COSMOS trial

Lisa Johnston Keeping it normal through continuity of care: Reflections and discussion from mid-wives of Townsville Birth Centre

Lindsay Cole The delivery driver: Attributions of accountability for medical intervention use during childbirth

Laura Gabriel The influence of ‘risk’ on intrapartum midwifery care: A literature review

Lena Back It takes years to achieve: Swedish midwives about professional confidence

Kathryn Braye Trends in early onset sepsis in a health district in NSW, Australia, 2006-2014: Can continued data surveillance inform clinical practice and keep birth normal?

Li-Chu Lee Evaluation of the effects of Friendly Childbirth Program on childbirth outcome

Ellise D. Adams The effects of skin-to-skin care during an uncomplicated cesarean compared to skin-to-skin care after a complicated cesarean on maternal and newborn outcomes

Karolina Petrovska Death, risk and danger: A prospective analysis of web-based news reports on breech birth

Karin Cato Risk factors for exclusive breastfeeding lasting less than two months: Identifying women in need of targeted breastfeeding support

Lauren Williams Can a change in early labour care reduce epidural rates in a tertiary hospital?

Julie Arthur Establishing the first alongside primary maternity facility in New Zealand

Jessie Isabella Johnson-Cash

Stages of labour: A systematic literature review

Jocelyn Toohill Birth trauma and fear in midwives: Prevalence and impact on provision of care

Jayne Garrod Making childbirth choices: Women’s use of social and traditional media

Endang Nurrochmi The relationship of oxytocin massage to the uterine involution and milk production on postpartum mothers at privately practicing midwives of Cirebon Municipality in 2015

Jane Henderson Women’s worries about and experience of labour pain and associated outcomes

Day Two Posters Wednesday 12th

Susan Crowther Spirituality at time of birth

Ellen Blix Transfers to hospital in planned home birth in four Nordic countries

Della Forster Does antenatal milk expressing influence infant gestation, formula use and neonatal unit admission? Results from the DAME (Diabetes and Antenatal Milk Expressing)

Clare Davison Looking back, moving forward

Christa Buckland Doulas are not midwives in embryo: Where do they belong?

Catherine Donald-son

Keeping the flame alive: Exploring and invigorating normal birth practice amongst postgraduate midwifery students

Charlene Thornton Psychiatric condition in childbearing women

Beryl Davies Should midwives challenge the guidelines for the care of babies at birth?

Beryl Davies Can midwifery care prevent preterm births?

Amanda Hutcher-son

Setting up a volunteer doula service in the London UK: A scoping study

Lilleengen Anne Marie

Home visits by student midwives in the early postnatal period-a qualitative study of students

Allison Cummins The challenge of employing and managing new graduate midwives in midwifery group practices in hospitals

Andrew McIntyre Birth unit outcomes with and without central fetal monitoring

Mariza Miranda Theme Filha

Factors associated with unintended pregnancy in Brazil: Cross-sectional results from the Birth in Brazil National Survey, 2011-2012

Alison Teate Exploring the video analysis process

Andrew Symon Midwifery-led antenatal care models: Mapping a systematic review to an evi-dence-based quality framework to identify key components and characteristics of

Leonie Mary Hewitt Australian midwifery leaders views on the attributes required in managers to effec-tively manage a midwifery group practice

Hilary Gatward The clock is ticking

Jane Carpenter Water immersion during labour and waterbirth in Australia: A prospective observa-tional study.

Alys Einion Making a difference: Student midwives holistic understanding of women with com-plex needs

Annette Briley Are guidelines for gestational weight gain achievable, and does it matter, in obese pregnant women? Findings for the UPBEAT trial

Alys Einion Using dynamic narratives to facilitate enquiry-based learning: Developing holistic knowledge for maternity care.

Annika Karlstrom Swedish women’s experience of emergency caesarean section

Day Three Posters Thursday 13th

Lisa Davenport Placental birth practices: Exploring midwifery and medical management of the third stage of labour in a regional Queensland Hospital

Maggie Redshaw How does peer support on women’s emotional wellbeing during pregnancy and fol-lowing childbirth? A qualitative study

Accommodation OptionsThe 11th International Normal Labour and Birth Conference will be held at the Conference Centre, Wa-terview Bicentennial Park, Bicentennial Drive, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, New South Wales Australia.

QuestThe Quest is providing a preferential rate in conjunction with our Conference and has buses running between the Hotel and Conference Centre from 7:30am each morning, or for those that like a brief walk, the Quest is less than 5 minutes from the Waterview and provides 140 fully self-contained Studio, One, Two and Three Bedroom apartments.

Location and contact details:6 Edwin Flack AvenueSydney Olympic Park NSW 2127Tel (+61) 2 9033 2000Fax (+61) 2 9022 2199

Novotel & Ibis HotelsThe Novotel Hotel, Sydney Olympic Park is a 4 star hotel within walking distance of Waterview in Bicentennial Park and offers 177 stylish rooms, each peaceful space designed for natural living. You can enjoy seasonal dishes and exemplary service at the Boulevard Brasserie & Bar, or relax with a drink at The Brewery while watching multiple sports on the big screens.

Location and contact details:Olympic Boulevard2127 SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK - AUSTRALIATel (+61) 2 8762 1111Fax (+61) 2 8762 1263Email H2732@accor.com

The Ibis, Sydney Olympic Park is located in the heart of Sydney Olympic Park precinct. Ibis offers a choice of 144 modern guest rooms, two restaurants, two bars and only a short walk from Waterview in Bicetennnial Park.

Location and contact details:Olympic BoulevardSydney Olympic Park NSW 2127Tel (+61) 2 8762 1100Fax (+61) 2 8762 1263Email H2734@accor.com

PullmanPullman in Sydney Olympic Park is a unique 5 star hotel within walking distance of Waterview in-Bicentennial Park, Sydney Olympic Park. The up scale hotel offers business travellers 212 rooms, three exclusive floors with access to an Executive Lounge and wireless Internet in all areas. Enjoy panoramic views of Sydney, toast your success in the chic wine bar and savour contemporary Aus-tralian cuisine in Bacar restaurant.

Location and contact details:Olympic BoulevardSydney Olympic Park NSW 2127Tel (+61) 2 8762 1700Fax (+61) 2 8762 1263Email H6411@accor.com

To make a reservation at the Quest, please contact reservations.sop@questapartments.com.au or complete the enquiry form PDF, 358.3 KB.

ActivitiesDelegates and guests are invited to discover Sydney and its surrounds.

The Conference Secretariat has negotiated a special conference rate for BridgeClimb Sydney. The special rate is available for bookings made from now until 31 October 2016 and limits climbs between 1 - 31 October 2016. To make a booking and take advantage of the special conference rate, please click the link below:

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Please note: Any climb dates outside of 1-31 October 2016 will be at retail rates. All delegates who qualify for this special rate must present their conference lanyard or proof of registration at the time of check-in at the BridgeClimb Base.

For further information about BridgeClimb download the information sheet PDF, 587.7 KB.

WatervieW in Bicentennial Park is a unique conference and event venue in Sydney. Surrounded by rolling parklands, lakes and ponds, you’ll feel you have been transported to another world – yet it’s only a few kilometres from Sydney’s CBD.

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Event Location:

Bicentennial Drive, Bicentennial Park, (off Australia Avenue) Sydney Olympic Park,Sydney NSW 2127

Phone: +61 2 9764 9900

PO Box 3397, Rhodes Waterside NSW 2138

Café at WatervieWPhone: +61 2 9764 9900

Nearest Train Station:

Concord West

Ten Minute walk to Waterveiw