Conference 2010 · Breakout Sessions

Breakout sessions are optional conference sessions offered for a low price to enhance your conference experience and add to your professional knowledge base. Breakout sessions and registration information will be listed on this page as it becomes available.

Leave Well Enough Alone - Natural 3rd Stage

Taught by Barbara Harper

What is the actual normal physiological and hormonal progression of the release of the placenta?  How do routines used in the management of labor and birth effect everything that accompanies the third stage, including attachment of the newborn. What things can be done to enhance  “optimal” third stage to the greatest benefit of both mother and baby?  

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the important physical and emotional function of the hormonal balance which occurs after physiologic birth
  2. Discuss the benefits of allowing physiologic placental transfusion
  3. Assess the risks vs benefits of interrupting maternal/baby skin to skin contact during routine birth care
  4. Discover ways to allow physiologic third stage and implement mother/baby bonding in the immediate afterbirth period

Innovative Childbirth Education Teaching Points

Taught by Polly Perez

Teaching skills in a prenatal setting is an important way to effect birth outcomes positively. It is important that all those employed in the maternity care setting, not just childbirth educators, work together. The teaching of skills and techniques may take place in prenatal clinics, primary caregiver's offices, school-based teen pregnancy programs, and prenatal education classes. Those that work in these settings will be able to do this more effectively with the information provided in this session. Techniques taught in this session will give educators more options from which to choose when teaching about childbirth.

Insurance Reimbursment for Doulas. All the latest information!

Taught by Patricia A. Burrell

In October of 2009, Pat, founder of Beach Baby’s Doula Services in MB, SC, succeeded in securing a nationwide code for Doula Services. This presentation will address strategies private practice doulas and doula companies can use to bill Medicaid and private insurers and will highlight the new nationwide doula registry, which will support doulas’ professional status and aid insurance companies in verifying the credentials of a doula regardless of which group she received her certification through.

Using Online Social Marketing for Your Business

Taught by Tracy Wilson Peters

Learn how to use social networking sites such as Facebook to successfully market, promote and grow your business. This class goes beyond the basics. Learn why viral marketing is not just the way of the future - it's the way now! This lecture will provide you with real strategies that you can instantly apply to your business! Learn how to spend less money on advertising and get better results! Come see why CAPPA has the largest presence on Facebook of any major childbirth organization... and how you can apply those same techniques to your business!

Using Hug Strategies to Empower Mothers, Dads, and the Babies

Taught by Jan Tedder

Every parent has the power to be a good parent using Hug strategies. HUG Your Baby (HYB) believes that parents want to be good moms and dad...but sometimes need a little help! HYB provides family-friendly information created from evidence-based child development and medical literature. HYB helps parents prevent and solve problems around eating, sleeping, crying, and parent-child bonding and provides innovative training and resources to professionals who serve expectant and new parents.

Prenatal Nutrition - Beyond Brewer

Taught by Adrienne Leeds

What is the Brewer Diet and how did it come to be the standard for prenatal nutrition? What is missing from this eating plan? How can it be adapted for vegetarians, vegans, and raw foodists? Participants will be able to identify the Brewer Diet Plan, understand pre-eclampsia, learn what is missing from modern nutrition and how to provide these nutrients, and how to individualize nutrition education.