Schedule

This schedule may still be subject to change.
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Wed, March 10th and Thurs March 11th

Pre-Conference Workshops

9:00 am to 5:00 pm (Wed, March 10th and Thurs March 11th)

A1/B1—Trust Birth Midwifery Skills Intensive (2 parts—total of 1,020 min; Esplanade–Thurs; 40; Catalina—Fri.; $315, $250/AAMI students)—Dana Combest, Jenny West, Pamela Hines Powell

 

9:00 am to 6:30 pm (Wednesday)

A2—Midwifery Management of Neonatal Resuscitation (515 min; Catalina, 80; $200)

 

9:00 am to 3:30 pm (Thursday)

B2—Herbs to Know and Love (390 min: Esplanade; 40; $70)


3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm (Thursday)

B3—Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Workshop (240 min: Esplanade; 20; $100)

 

6:00 pm to 10:00 pm (Thursday)

B4—CranioSacral Therapy for the Birth Worker (240 min: 30; $125)

 

 

Friday, March 12

Opening Sessions, Keynote Speech, and Closing Session—8:00a to 11:45 (9:00a to 11:45a)

Opening

Carla Hartley—Welcome, Introductions, Thank you’s and Charge!

Dr. Jeanne OhmA System in Crisis (70 min) Hear world renown chiropractor and natural birth advocate, Jeanne Ohm, as she tells the truth of what is taking place within the medical community.  See exerts from her amazing documentary exposing the mis-treatment of mothers and their baby’s during typical births.  Learn from her experience as a home birth mother and chiropractor how to experience a safe and healthy pregnancy and birth and how birth professionals can refuse to continue the birth trauma so prevalent today.

7:00p to 9:30p

Keynote–Dr. Sarah Buckley, “Trust Your Body; Trust Your Baby; Trust Birth” (30 min)

Sunday, Round Table Luncheon—noon to 2:00 pm (closing 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm)

Closing—Carla Hartley


Friday, March 12

Track 1: (1:15p to 2:45p)

1A—Panel:  Trusting in Unassisted and Free birth (Brock, Hathor, Hessel, Shanley, & Reeves—90)

1B— Pamela Hines-Powell: Pre and Postnatal Depression (90 min)

1C—Lennon Clark:  Elimination Communication (90 min)

1D— Lori Barklage:  Releasing Trauma with TAT (90 min)

1E—Jenny West:  Body Modification & Pregnancy Techniques You’ll want in Your Repertoire (90)

1F—Jody McLaughlin: The Invisible Midwife (90 min)

1G—Karen Strange:  Baby’s Brain, Organization, and Regulation, Part I (90 min)

 

Friday, March 12

Track 2: (3:15p to 4:45p)

2A—Dr. Paul Fleiss:  Proper Care of the Newborn (90 min)

2B—Gail Hart:  The Truth about Gestational Diabetes (90 min)

2C—Kristi Zittle:  Updated Vaccination Truth—Natural Immunity is Best (90)

2D—Gloria Lemay:  Midwifery Interventions—How to Avoid Them for a Better Birth (90 min)

2E— Jodilyn Owen:  Newborn Assessment for Midwives (90 min)

2F— Jane Drichta:  Massage Techniques for the Childbearing Years (90 min)

2G—Patricia Ann Edmonds: The Placenta—Our Story of Life Before Birth (90 min)

 

Saturday, March 13

Track 3: (8:30a to 10:00a)

3A—Dr. Sarah Buckley—Part I:  The Safety and Logic of Normal Birth (90 min)

3B—PANEL: Don’t Push Me! (Brock, Lemay, Shanley, Strange—90 min)

3C— Sondra Rose:  EFT Up Close and Personal (90 min)

3D— Sheila Stubbs: Unbecoming Baby Lies (90 min)

3E— Kristi Zittle: Serving the Woman of Size (90 min)

3F— Gail Hart:  Postpartum Hemorrhage and Other Third Stage Difficulties (90 min)

3G— Pamela Hines-Powell: How to Work with Unattended Couples: Ways to Offer Support, Resources and Skills to Those Not Wanting a Care Provider at Their Birth (90 min)

 

Saturday, March 13

Track 4: (10:30a to Noon)

4A—Dr. Jeanne Ohm: Pelvic Balance for Safe and Easier Births (90 min)

4B— Heather Cushman-Dowdee:  Birth Activism 101 (90 min)

4C—Panel: Practical Skills for Midwives in a Third World Country (Combest, Denny, Craig–90 min)

4D—Gloria Lemay & Kristi Zittle: Circumcision—Learn the Truth (90)

4E— Debby Sapp: Breastfeeding Facts That Will Make You Flip (90 min)

4F—Terri LaPoint: Trusting Birth—A Biblical Perspective (90)

4G—Karen Strange:  Baby’s Brain, Organization, and Regulation, Part II (90 min)

 

Saturday, March 13

Track 5: (1:30p to 3:00p)

5A—Dr. Sarah Buckley: Part II:  When Birth Goes Wrong (90 min)

5B—Panel: Trusting Birth After a Cesarean (Clark, Fernandez, Hudson, Hines-Powell–90 min)

5C—Gail Hart: The First Sixty Minutes of Life (90 min.)

5D—Claire Hall:  How Long is Labor Meant to Be? (90)

5E—Kathy Nesper: Erasing Fear; Embracing Truth (90 min)

5F— Sheila Stubbs—The Womanly Art of Birthing; Secrets Doctors Don’t Know (90 min)

5G—Lisa Barrett:  Honoring the Third Stage (90 min)

 

Saturday, March 13

Track 6: (3:30p to 5:00p)

6A— Dr. Jeanne Ohm—Vitalism:  Where Chiropractic and Midwifery Meet (90 min)

6B— Lisa Barrett: Trusting Birth Through Variations of Normal (90 min)

6C— Laura Shanley: Believe Your Way to a Better Birth (90 min)

6D—Kristi Zittle: Autism:  New Insights on Causes, Treatments, and Prevention (90 min)

6E—Amanda Hofedetz: Toxins in Breast milk: A Global Perspective on the Effects of Diet and Lifestyle (90 min)

6F—Heather Cushman-Dowdee: Telling the Story so that Mother’s Trust (90)

6G—Karen Strange: Baby’s Experience of Birth, Part I (90 min)

 

Saturday, March 13

Track 7 (EXTENDED SESSIONS): (7:00p to 9:30p)

7A—Panel: Licensure—Planning to Practice With or Without (Combest, Edmonds, Hart, Hartley, Zittle–150 min)

7B—Jane Drichta: Tricks of the Trade for Doula’s and Birth Workers (150 min)

7C—Panel: Transitioning to Trust Birth Midwifery (Clark, Hall, Hines-Powell, Strange, West–150 min)

7D—Debby Takikawa: What Babies Want:  Positive Imprints (150 min)

 

Sunday, March 14

Track 8: (8:30a to 10:00a)

8A— Dr. Sarah Buckley:  Making Wise Decisions in Pregnancy, Labour, and Birth (90 min)

8B—Dr. Elliott Berlin, DC:  20/20—Lowering the Cesarean Section Rate 20% by 2020 (90 min)

8C— Jodilyn Owen: Midwifery from the Inside Out (90 min)

8D— Karen Strange:  Baby’s Experience of Birth, Part II (90 min)

8E— Panel:  Unity—How to Interact with Birth Professionals and Deal with Peer Bullying (Barrett, Edmonds, Hart, Scott, Zittle–90 min)

8F—Jenny West: Water birth—Promoting Trust and Less Interference (90 min)

8G—Claire Hall:  Woman Led Childbirth (90 min)

 

Sunday, March 14

Track 9: (10:30a to Noon)

9A— Debby Sapp:  How to Promote Birth Truth and Your Birth Business (90 min)

9B— Pamela Hines-Powell: Unassisted vs. Unattended Childbirth:  How a Midwife Can Honor and Help Facilitate an Unassisted Birth (90 min)

9C— Gloria Lemay:  Pelvises I Have Known and Loved (90 min)

9D—Kristi Zittle: Embracing Life After Loss: How Can We Help Them and Ourselves (90 min)

9E—Dad’s Panel:  What Dad’s Expect From Birth Workers (90 min)

9F— Jodilyn Owen: Childbirth Educator and Doula Who Trusts Birth (90 min)

9G—Karen Strange:  Meconium:  Facts, Implications, and Perspectives (90 min)

 

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