2012 Conference

The 2012 Conference will be held in Kansas City MO at Marriott Country Club
July 17- 23 2012

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Conference Theme

“Together we can build bridges for better perinatal outcomes around the world.”

CAPPA professionals approach their work with expectant families during the perinatal year with a desire to educate, support, and to see all families succeed. The CAPPA Approach is built on the CAPPA Vision, which supports four cornerstone tenets. These cornerstones are:

-Using evidence-based information in practice
-Embracing positive mental attitudes
-Approaching all situations with a loving, non-judgmental mindset
-Building bridges amongst support and healthcare professionals

How do you become a bridge builder within your community? Common challenges in our communities include:

-How do I support families who are unprepared to parent?
-How do I stress the importance of the first few hours in the breastfeeding relationship?
-How do I set families up for breastfeeding success, by helping them understand the impact of their choices in birth?
-How do I build bridges and remove walls in perinatal care between health care professionals in my community?
-How do I support families with unexpected outcomes and perinatal loss?
-How do I keep up and reach my target audience using today’s technology?
-How do I get parents excited about nutrition and fitness in the perinatal period?
-What can I learn from various cultures to help me support families?
-How do I help parents understand their vaccine rights as well as my own rights as a perinatal professional?

By building bridges, we can connect doulas, educators, nurses, midwives, and doctors, uniting all birth professionals as a team around the world. By understanding and respecting each other we can work together for the betterment of all families.

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The 2012 CAPPA conference will be held in Kansas City, Missouri from July 19-22, 2012. CAPPA will offer certification workshops before and after conference for those individuals seeking certification who have not had an opportunity to take these courses yet.

Pre-Conference

July 17-19, 2012 Lactation Educator Training
July 18-19, 2012 Labor Doula Training
July 18-19, 2012 Postpartum Doula Training

Post Conference Trainings

July 22, 2012 Pregnancy Fitness Educator Training
July 23-24, 2012 Teen Educator Training
July 23-25, 2012 Childbirth Educator Training

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Location

Kansas City Marriott

Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza

**CAPPA Special Room Rate $125/night**

Reserve your rooms by June 26, 2012 using this link:
CAPPA Special Room Rate - Online or
by calling 1-800-810-3708 and requesting
the CAPPA Special Room Rate.

There is complimentary self-parking for CAPPA members

Super Shuttle Service For Conference

Super Shuttle Service For Conference
The discounted Round-Trip rate to the Marriott Country Club Plaza is $32, per person.
We also offer discounted group rates to and from the airport if there are multiple attendees arriving on the same flight.
The attendees can make reservations using the link or by calling 800-BLUE VAN (258-3826) and providing the code PP6Q6

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Keynote Speakers - General Sessions

Name

Laurel Wilson, IBCLC, CLE, CLD, CCCE, Co-Author of The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: Keys to the MotherBaby Bond

Laurel Wilson, IBCLC, CLE, CCCE, CLD is Executive Director of Lactation Programs and Faculty for CAPPA. She owns MotherJourney Childbirth Services—training childbirth, lactation, and postpartum professionals, as well as expectant families on integrative and holistic information as it pertains to today’s Millennial family. She has her degree in Maternal Child Health: Lactation Consulting and is an internationally board certified lactation consultant. With over seventeen years experience working with women in the childbearing year, Wilson takes a creative approach to working with the pregnant family. Laurel has received her training with Union Institute and University, Healthy Children, DONA, ALACE, CAPPA, Birthworks, Whole Birth Yoga, and Prenatal Parenting. She strives to provide the latest techniques, research, and programs to her clients by attending yearly conferences and workshops in the birth and lactation field. Laurel loves to blend today’s recent scientific findings with the mind/body/spirit wisdom she has gleaned throughout the years. Laurel is certified as a lactation counselor, childbirth educator, labor doula, lactation educator, Prenatal Parenting™ Instructor, and pre-and postpartum fitness educator.

Bridging the Nutrition Gap
Its time to set many of the pregnancy myths aside and teach mothers what they really need to know about nutrition in pregnancy. While it is true that a mother is eating for two, most women do not really know what that means. They assume they just eat twice as much. A woman’s nutritional intake has epigenetic outcomes, meaning that what she eats actually changes the genetic expression of her baby. A woman’s diet in pregnancy can change her baby’s palate, cravings and rewards centers of her baby’s brain, risk of diabetes and risk of obesity. Additionally, the typical American foods eaten during pregnancy do very little to nourish the pregnant woman’s body, let alone nourish her baby. Join Laurel to learn about how to counsel mothers on better choices and using conscious agreement to make choices for a vibrant and healthy pregnancy.
Objectives
At the completion of this seminar, participants will be able to
o Identify at least 4 important ways to optimize pregnancy through nutrition.
o Describe how to use conscious agreement for positive prenatal nutrition.
o Identify at least one food that benefits a woman during each trimester of pregnancy.
o Identify at least one epigenetic influence from nutrition on the fetus.

Name

Tracy Wilson Peters, CAPPA CEO, CLD, CLE, CCCE

Tracy Wilson Peters, CLD, CLE, CCCE, is the co-author of The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: Keys to the Mother-Baby Bond, the CEO of CAPPA and has been a lifelong advocate for families and babies. Married for over 18 years and mother to two amazing sons, Peters’ experience raising her own children led her to a love for supporting expectant families. This passion encouraged her to found CAPPA, Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association. Peters serves as both the CEO and as a faculty member for CAPPA. CAPPA is the largest childbirth organization in the world. For over a decade CAPPA's mission has been to offer comprehensive, evidence-based education, certification, professional membership, and training to childbirth educators, lactation educators, labor doulas, antepartum doulas, and postpartum doulas worldwide. CAPPA has offices in the United States, Canada, Israel, India and Ecuador, with plans to continue expanding world-wide. Peters, is known for her exceptional marketing abilities, she was even highlighted in the book Web Marketing for Dummies. Nationally known as a pregnancy expert, she has authored numerous journal and magazine articles, keeping both professionals and expectant families in tune to what is happening in the world of women’s healthcare. Peters has appeared on many television networks, including FOX, CBS, NBC, and ABC. Peters has been working with expectant women and families for more than 18 years, attending hundreds of births as a professional labor doula in the process. She worked as the lead childbirth instructor for over seven years at Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest HMO, and taught childbirth education classes to more than 3000 families.

The Accidental Parent
This presentation will explore current pregnancy and parenting trends, the risks associated with unplanned pregnancy. Learn what we can do to positively influence the lives of the accidental parent and the babies that are born into unprepared families. Today’s parents need support; they need to learn relationship skills and a team parenting approach. This presentation presents health care providers a proactive parenting plan that they can teach to expectant couples for better parenting outcomes. The concepts presented in this presentation are key concepts in the book The Greatest Pregnancy Ever, co- authored by Tracy Wilson Peters.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this presentation attendees will be able to:
- Identify risk factors for babies born as a result of an unplanned pregnancy.
- Identify the need for parents to begin a parenting plan early in pregnancy.
- List the questions parents need to ask each other during pregnancy to develop parenting intentions.
- Name two communication strategies that will be helpful for parents.
- List resources for further study and for support.

Name

Alan G. Phillips, J.D., Attorney and Counselor at Law

Alan Phillips, J.D. of Chapel Hill, NC, is a leading U.S. vaccine rights attorney. He advises individuals, families, attorneys, groups and organizations throughout the U.S. on vaccine exemption and waiver rights; supports legislative initiatives aimed at expanding vaccine freedom of choice; is published internationally on vaccine health and legal matters; and appears regularly at rallies, conferences, and on radio shows discussing vaccine rights issues. Alan's e-book, The Authoritative Guide to Vaccine Legal Exemptions, is the only publication that provides authoritative, accurate, in-depth information about how state and federal laws interact with individual circumstances to form the boundaries of each person's legal right to refuse vaccines in a wide variety of vaccine refusal settings.

Vaccine Problems and Legal Solutions: Healthcare Workers, Pregnancy, and Newborns
This presentation will examine vaccine issues in today's society. Some main topics will be: vaccines during pregnancy and for newborns, exemption and waiver right; child vaccine consent laws and associated parental rights issues; vaccines and infant mortality in the U.S. and internationally; and legislative issues with respect to the above topics.
Objectives
To obtain greater understanding of, and increased confidence to speak knowledgeably about, the following issues; and to obtain greater understanding of, and enhanced ability to effectively participate in, legislative activism concerning these issues:
1. Vaccines during pregnancy and for newborns, and exemption and waiver rights in these contexts;
2. Child vaccine consent laws and associated parental rights issues;
3. Vaccines and infant mortality in the U.S. and internationally; and
4. Legislative issues with respect to the above topics.

Name

Dr. Jack Newman, MD FRCPC

Dr. Jack Newman graduated from the University of Toronto medical school in 1970. He did his training in pediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto from 1977-1981 to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in 1981 as well as Board Certified by the AAP in 1981. He has worked as a physician in Central America, New Zealand and as a pediatrician in South Africa (in the Transkei). He founded the first hospital based breastfeeding clinic in Canada in 1984. He has been a consultant for UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, evaluating the first candidate hospitals in Gabon, the Ivory Coast and Canada. Dr. Newman was a staff pediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children emergency department, the acting chief of the emergency services. However, once the breastfeeding clinic started functioning, it took more and more of his time and he eventually worked full time helping mothers and babies succeed with breastfeeding. He now works at the International Breastfeeding Centre based at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto. Dr. Newman has several publications on breastfeeding, including: The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers and The Latch and Other Keys to Breastfeeding Success.

Controversies in Breastfeeding
This presentation will explore many of the myths and controversial topics regarding breastfeeding today. Some of these topics are: why formula does not equal breast milk; the importance of skin to skin regarding breastfeeding success; breastfeeding can be made or unmade-it doesn't just work or not work; why supplementation of formula in the first few days is not a benign act; there is such a thing as nipple confusion - but it is not the babies who are confused; and the basics of breastfeeding.
Objectives
At the end of the session, the participant should be able to:
1. Discuss why formula does not equal breastmilk
2. Discuss why an early start and skin to skin care is important in promoting breastfeeding success
3. Discuss that breastfeeding can be made or unmade—that it doesn’t just work or not work
4. Discuss why supplementation of formula in the first few days is not a benign act
5. Discuss that there is such a thing as nipple confusion, but it is not the babies who are confused.
6. Discuss the basics of how breastfeeding works.

Name

Polly Perez, RN, BSN, FACCE

Polly is an internationally known nurse and public speaker. She graduated from Texas Woman’s University. In 2001 the college recently selected Polly to be one of their “100 Great Nursing Alumni”. Polly is also listed among the Outstanding Young Women of America, Who’s Who in American Women and Who’s Who in American Nursing. She was awarded AWHONN’s Medallion of Excellence in Community Service for 2001 and CAPPA awarded her a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. In 2003 Polly was awarded The American Heart Association-NE Affiliate Stroke Survivor of the Year. Polly is President of C.F.E., Inc of Johnson, Vermont. She is a consultant to hospitals, universities and corporations on health care related issues. Polly has always campaigned for patient rights and for family-centered care. She is the author of numerous articles and books which include Special Women: The Role of the Professional Labor Assistant, The Nurturing Touch at Birth: A Labor Support Handbook, Brain Attack: Danger, Chaos, Opportunity and Empowerment, the NEW 2nd edition of Doula Programs: How to Start and Run a Private or Hospital-Based Program with Success, and many more.

Building Bridges and Removing Walls in Perinatal Care between Health Care Professionals
Polly’s message is potent as she embraces the topics of building bridges and removing walls between perinatal health care professionals and the challenges we face while facilitating a cultural change in our communications with each other.
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
-Identify the challenges facing us as perinatal health care professionals working together
-Discuss the concept of risk
-Identify unique partnerships between nurses, doctors, midwives, childbirth educators and doulas
-List things that we can do to build bridges within the perinatal community

Name

Christy Jo Hendricks, IBCLC, RLC, CAPPA CLE Faculty, CD (DONA)

Christy Jo has over 20 years of teaching experience. She has a passion for education and helping others reach their goals. Her informative, yet entertaining style makes learning easy and enjoyable. Christy Jo has been awarded the United States Presidential Volunteer Award for her community service, the Phyllis Klaus Founder's Award for her contribution to the Mother/Baby bond, and the Above and Beyond Award for innovative projects that exemplify the mission of Public Health. Christy Jo is the creator of the Grow Our Own Lactation Consultant / IBCLC Prep Course which has been used to train hundreds of women to follow their dreams of becoming Lactation Consultants. On a mission to normalize breastfeeding, she authored and illustrated a children’s book, Mommy Feeds Baby, which has sold 10,000 copies. Christy lives in California with her husband and three children, who she was privileged to breastfeed; her ambition continues to be helping others have the breastfeeding experience that they desire.

Communication and Support: The Bricks and Mortar of Our Bridges
When a mom initially contacts a member of the birth team, it is in her best interest to expose her to others that will guide her through perinatal period. No one single professional or field can meet all the needs of a birthing community, so referrals are paramount to a well-supported birth and postpartum period. It is each person’s individual responsibility to build a network of support by building up other professionals that will serve as pillars. When a strong foundation is laid for our clients we have fulfilled our responsibility and can guarantee safe passage from our area of expertise to the next.
Objectives
By the conclusion of this lecture, participants will be able to:
-Identify the pillars in the birth communities
-Communicate effectively with birth professionals
-Build networks of support for clients

Optional Breakout Sessions

Name

Darla Burns, CPD, CCCE, CLE

Darla Burns started doing doula work in 1990 but only realized in 2003 that there was a name for the work she was doing. She immediately took a training to be a labor doula and then continued on that path and became a Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator, Happiest Baby on the Block Instructor, Infant Massage Instructor, and a Lactation Educator. In 2007, Darla became the CAPPA Postpartum Doula Trainer for the state of California. In 2009, Darla became the Executive Director of Postpartum Doulas for CAPPA where she oversees the Postpartum Doula Program and Faculty in the U.S. Darla was honored by the Doula Association of Southern California in 2005 as Postpartum Doula of the Year and Doula Mentor of the Year in 2009. Darla contributed to a soon-to-be released e-book about the postpartum period and was recently interviewed for an upcoming documentary, After Birth Project.

Birth and Postpartum Rituals Around the World: What Americans Need to Learn
This presentation will explore the various birth and postpartum rituals from around the world and their correlation to breastfeeding success and postpartum mood disorders. Learn what we can do, as Americans, to incorporate some of these rituals from around the world to help improve our breastfeeding rates and lower our postpartum mood disorder rates.
Objectives
Learners will be able to:
- Discuss several birth and postpartum rituals of cultures around the world
- Compare and contrast birth and postpartum rituals from various cultures
- Identify the correlations between birth and postpartum rituals and their impact on postpartum mood disorders
- Discuss the correlations between birth and postpartum rituals and their impact on breastfeeding success rates
- List simple, effective rituals that they can discuss with their clients in an effort to achieve a better birth and/or postpartum outcome

Name

Desirre Andrews, CCCE, LCCE, CLD, CLE

Desirre has been professionaly teaching childbirth classes and actively working with birthing families since 2004 as a doula. Her experience dates back to 1987 when she attended her first birth as support. She is a dual-certified childbirth educator, certified labor doula, certified lactation educator, vice president of the International Cesarean Awareness Network, public speaker, and blogger. She teaches her own thriving independent childbirth class, volunteer teaches at her local pregnancy center, and is a busy working labor doula. She has been married to her amazing and supportive husband since 1994 and has four growing boys.

The eBirth Professional - (Best Practices in Technology Use)
Some of the main topics in this session are: the keys of professional conduct within the realm of the technological world; the function and purpose of technological tools in work as a birth professional; and apply branding to doulas and individual self.
Objectives
For participants to outline the keys of professional conduct within the realm of the technological world.
For participants to identify technological tools, their function and purpose in work as a birth professional.
For participants to apply branding of individual self and doulas in general to the technological realm.

Name

Polly Perez, RN, BSN, FACCE

The Health Care Professional’s Guide to Perinatal Grief
This presentation will describe family perinatal grief and how the nurse, midwife, doula, monitrice and doctor can provide bereavement care after perinatal loss.

Name

Sonali Shivlani – CCCE, CLE, CPFE, Executive Director (CAPPA India), Executive Director (Pregnancy Fitness Educator Program), Director (Sonali’s Pregnancy Program)

Sonali is an Internationally Certified Childbirth and Lactation Educator. She has been practicing as a Childbirth Educator Trainer in Mumbai, India since May 2004. Since then, she has worked with more than 7,000 couples in her prenatal classes and workshops. She is also one of the founding members of Birth India, which is an organization dedicated to promoting and creating awareness about natural birth. Sonali opened CAPPA India in 2009. Along with the programs that were offered with CAPPA International, she sought to introduce a pregnancy fitness program which she believed was the need for women in her country. This program is now offered as the Certified Pregnancy Fitness Educator program with CAPPA. Since the time she has been working with pregnant women she has been conducting fitness oriented sessions for them focusing on healthy nutrition and safe exercises. Her centre has a regular prenatal exercise class which has been immensely popular since its launch in 2005.

The Birth Professional and Prenatal Fitness
This session will discuss: benefits for exercise during pregnancy; the role, scope of practice, limitations, and opportunities to educate and engage expectant mothers as it relates to pregnancy fitness; and potential career opportunities and places of employment for pregnancy fitness educators.
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- List 3 important benefits for exercise during pregnancy.
- Describe their role, scope of practice, limitations, and opportunities to educate and engage expectant mothers as it relates to pregnancy fitness.
- Identify potential career opportunities and places of employment for pregnancy fitness educators.

Name

Dr. Jack Newman, MD FRCPC

Effect of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding
This session will discuss why interventions in labor and birth are being used far too often and unnecessarily, outline why many interventions are thought to be normal in a "medicalized" society, and examine how various interventions interfere with breastfeeding.
Objectives
At the end of the session, the participants should be able to:
1. Discuss why interventions in labour and birth are being used far too often and unnecessarily
2. Outline why many interventions are thought to be normal in a “medicalized” society
3. Discuss how various interventions interfere with breastfeeding

Janice Banther, CCCE, CLD, CD(DONA), CHBE

Janice Banther is a nationally recognized pioneer in providing doula, childbirth and parenting support to women who are homeless, addicted or incarcerated for over two decades. She founded two nonprofit agencies that work exclusively with women in need, For The Love Of Birth and Birth Behind Bars. She is a CAPPA faculty member for Childbirth and Labor Doula.

Building Birth Bridges
Janice draws on more than two decades of experience in working with public agencies, private organizations and hundreds of pregnant women. Her presentation will examine how to build bridges between the Doula and Hospitals/Birthing Centers, Government Agencies, Community Groups, Estranged Family and Friends!
Objectives
As a result of this session participants will be able to;
1. Identify key influencers in organizations and agencies.
2. Know how to build communication bridges based on others self interest first.
3. Be able to answer the 5 Critical Questions in bridge building; Why build the bridge? Where do you begin? What materials do you need? When do you start? How do you know when the bridge is safe to cross?

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Pre and Post- Conference Certification Workshops

Pre-Conference

July 17-19, 2012 Lactation Educator Training
July 18-19, 2012 Labor Doula Training
July 18-19, 2012 Postpartum Doula Training

Post Conference Trainings

July 22, 2012 Pregnancy Fitness Educator Training
July 23-24, 2012 Teen Educator Training
July 23-25, 2012 Childbirth Educator Training

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Contact Hours

This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Georgia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

An application has been submitted to the Georgia Nurses Association for approval of 13.5 contact hours.
Please call Kay Smith at CAPPA for more information.

--There will be 2 general sessions each day, both sessions together equal (2.5) contact hours per day and both must be attended to receive contact hour credit.
--There will also be 6 optional breakout sessions that participants can receive (1) contact hour for each session they attend.
--Please send questions to info@cappa.net

Policies

CAPPA loves our members and their babies, however the CAPPA Conference is a professional learning enviroment. CAPPA Conferences are designed to create an excellent educational environment for all of our members. Babies and families are welcome to come to conference, however, there are no children or babies permitted in any of the eduational sessions themselves, therefore you will need a support person with you to care for your babies and children while you are in any general or breakout sessions. CAPPA wishes to support our members who do not have alternate care for their babies/children during conference by providing low cost DVD's of conferences sessions available for purchase in the weeks that follow conference. There are no exceptions to this policy.

The 2012 CAPPA conference will be a free event for members who register by June 5th, 2012. For those who do not register by June 5th, 2012 there will be a $50.00 USD late conference registration fee.

Our annual conference is free to all members of CAPPA, though additional optional breakout sessions are offered at a low cost ($25.00 each) to extend your conference learning experience. Please see breakout sessions for these additional opportunities.

*There is a $3.00 per member online convenience registration fee. If you do not wish to pay this convenience fee, you may print and mail in your registration. Please be sure to review all CAPPA conference policies prior to registration. Seats are first come first serve.

Our conference is *free to all CAPPA members, although for registration a valid credit card is necessary to reserve your seat. Your card will not be charged the $75.00 reservation fee, provided you are a member of CAPPA and you attend the conference *. In the event you cannot attend the conference, 30 days cancellation notice is required, or a no show fee of $75.00 USD will be charged to your credit card. You must mail your cancellation to CAPPA postmarked no later than June 20th, 2012. We do not accept e-mail or faxes, our address is CAPPA Po. Box 2406 Buford, GA 30515. There are no exceptions to this policy.

There are no refunds for breakout sessions, manuals, disco party or lunches. No transferring registration to another person. No swapping sessions.

Please see all policies prior to registration.

Disco Theme Dessert Party

Disco Party

Join Us For a Disco Dessert Party

There will be:
- Desserts from Sweet Street. Assorted cup cakes, mousse coronet, mini tortes, and assorted sweet shots (NY Cheesecake with Strawberry, Red Hot Cinnamon Apple, Chocolate Cake, Berries with Cream, Carrot Cake, Mascarpone and Pears with Pistachio Crisp)
- Coffee and tea
- Cash Bar
- Dancing and DJ
- Unimaginable Fun!!

Tickets are $25/person

Lunches

Boxed lunches - offered Friday and Saturday, $20/each
Ham, Turkey, Tuna Salad, Veggie
The box includes sandwich (choice of one of the above), chips, dessert (cookie or brownie), and tea/water.

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CAPPA 2012 Conference Agenda

Thursday July 19, 2012
4:00-5:00 PM - Volunteer Meeting
4:00-6:00 PM - Exhibitor Setup
6:00-7:30 PM - Pre-registration
7:00-8:30 PM - Showroom Open

Friday July 20, 2012
07:00-08:00 - Conference Registration, Showroom Open
08:00-08:45 - Conference Opening: Tracy Wilson Peters, CAPPA CEO
08:45-10:00 - General Session 1 Laurel Wilson - Bridging the Nutrition Gap
10:00-11:00 - Showroom Open
11:00-12:15 - General Session 2 Tracy Wilson Peters - The Accidental Parent
12:15-12:30 - Presenter Level Sponsor Presentation, Cord Blood Registry
12:30-02:00 - Showroom Open - Lunch
02:00-03:00 - Optional Session A: Darla Burns –
Birth and Postpartum Rituals Around the World: What Americans Need to Learn
03:15-04:15 - Optional Session B: Janice Banther- Building Birth Bridges
04:30-05:30 - Optional Session C: Desirre Andrews - The eBirth Professional - Best Practices in Technology Use
08:00-11:00 - Disco Themed Dessert Party: DJ and Dancing for Members

Saturday July 21, 2012
07:30-08:30 - Registration, Showroom Open
08:30-09:00 - Opening Session
09:00-10:15 - General Session 1 Alan Phillips –
Vaccine Problems and Legal Solutions: Healthcare Workers, Pregnancy, and Newborns
10:15-11:15 - Showroom Open
11:15-12:30 - General Session 2 Dr. Jack Newman—Controversies in Breastfeeding
12:30-12:45 - Presenter Level Sponsor Presentation, Lansinoh
12:45-02:15 - Showroom Open - Lunch
02:15-03:15 - Optional Session D: Polly Perez - The Health Care Professional’s Guide to Perinatal Grief
03:30-04:30 - Optional Session E: Sonali Shivlani - The Birth Professional and Prenatal Fitness
04:45-05:45 - Optional Session F: Dr. Jack Newman - Effect of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding

Sunday July 22, 2012
08:00-09:00 - Registration, Showroom Open
09:00-09:15 - Opening
09:15-10:30 - General Session 1 Polly Perez –
Building Bridges and Removing Walls in Perinatal Care between Health Care Professionals
10:30-11:15 - Showroom Open - All Exhibitors May Pack Up
11:15–11:30 - Presenter Level Sponsor Presentation, Doulas.com
11:30-12:45 - General Session 2 Christy Jo Hendricks - Communication and Quality Care - The Bricks and Mortar of Bridges
12:45-01:00 - Closing Remarks

2012 Conference

The 2012 Conference will be held in Kansas City MO at Marriott Country Club
July 17- 23 2012

Conference Theme

“Together we can build bridges for better perinatal outcomes around the world.”