Pre/post Conference Childbirth Educator Seminar
Day 1: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Day 2: Sunday, October 4, 2009, 1:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. (Please note: Registration includes both days.)
Are you ready to be a dynamic, evidence-based Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator? Take advantage of a great opportunity to become eligible* to sit for the Lamaze Certification Exam by enrolling in the Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar and attending the conference! You will reap the benefits of both! New and experienced childbirth educators, as well as midwives, doulas, labor and birth nurses, and social workers are encouraged to attend.
Passion for Birth (PfB) is leading a comprehensive, on-site educator training seminar that will:
- Equip you with interactive, effective teaching skills
- Energize you with techniques and information that you can use immediately in conducting childbirth classes
- Set up networking opportunities for your future growth as a childbirth educator
- Increase your confidence to facilitate evidence-based childbirth classes
- Lead you in creating a course design based on the Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices for fulfilling births in your community
The learning facilitators for this seminar are Patricia Predmore, BSN, CD(DONA), CLC/E, LCCE, FACCE and Robin Weiss, BA, CD(DONA), ICCE-CPE, CLC, LCCE, FACCE with support from PfB Director Teri Shilling, MS,CD(DONA), IBCLC, LCCE.
The seminar “sandwiches” the conference with the first day on Thursday, October 1, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and completes on Sunday, October 4, from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. You are required to attend both days and the entire conference as well. Register for these sessions specifically:
- Concurrent Session B-5: "I Can Make Milk: What's Your MAGIC Power?" Making Breastfeeding Classes Spellbinding!
- Concurrent Session C-5: Courageous Childbirth – From "I Think I Can." to "Yes, I Can!"
- Concurrent Session D-1: Are You Leading the Class or Is the Class Leading You?
- One early morning exercise session of your choice
Plan to attend these:
- Plenary Session by Passion for Birth Program Director Teri Shilling: Making the Magic Happen
- Lamaze Membership Meeting
- Poster Viewing Session
- As well as the rest of the conference!
Registration for this program includes the Lamaze International Study Guide, online student membership through December 2009 and support for new educators as they complete the steps along their pathway to certification. If you are a new educator, it is highly recommended that you observe a childbirth class before attending the seminar.
Hurry! Space is limited. Learn more about the Passion for Birth program at www.passionforbirth.com.
*Please note: If you are an EXPERIENCED childbirth educator, you must register for this seminar on or before August 14, 2009, to qualify to sit for the Lamaze Certification Exam on October 23, 2009. See all important certification exam dates.
Pre-Conference Lamaze Prenatal Yoga Workshop
Day 1: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Day 2: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Lead by Ann Israel, MA, Certified Whole Birth Yoga Teacher, RYT, E-RYT, LCCE, FACCE, this workshop will show you how to expand your class offerings by becoming a prenatal yoga instructor. Help more women have healthy, safe births—through prenatal yoga. Childbirth educators who already practice yoga will learn how to teach a prenatal yoga class that integrates evidence-based information about healthy birth practices.
Earn Contact Hours:
This Yoga Alliance-approved* workshop is approved for:
- 14.5 Lamaze contact hours
- 14.5 Nursing contact hours
- 17 ICEA contact hours
- 12.5 Yoga Alliance contact hours*
The workshop will give you the skills to:
- Modify yoga postures for pregnancy
- Create a new format for sharing Lamaze with pregnant women
- Sequence a safe prenatal yoga class
- Develop a prenatal yoga program
- Create a sacred space for practicing yoga
Before attending, we recommend that you read the following books:
- The Official Lamaze Guide: Giving Birth With Confidence by Lothian and DeVries
- Preparing for Birth with Yoga by Balaskas or Breathe Your Way Through Birth With Yoga by Llewellyn-Thomas
Please bring a yoga mat and a yoga strap or belt.
*Please note: Completion of the Lamaze Prenatal Yoga Workshop does not imply certification as a yoga instructor. However, Yoga Alliance has approved 12.5 contact hours toward continuing education for current yoga teachers (RYT®).
Thursday, October 1, 2009
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Reaching Around the Globe: An International Gathering
Join the ever-expanding network of Lamaze educators who are key in improving birth experiences around the world. Provide input to Lamaze leadership about your country-specific goals and needs. Re-energize with new connections and resource ideas. Receive recognition for your accomplishments. The invitation is open to all conference attendees from all countries outside the United States, Lamaze Program Directors and anyone interested in expanding the Lamaze message globally.
4:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
First-Time Attendees’ Gathering
Participants attending the Lamaze International Annual Conference for the first time are invited to attend this brief, informative orientation to familiarize themselves with both the conference and Lamaze International.
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Opening Plenary Session – Breastfeeding Made Simple
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC
Join your Lamaze family and friends for an enthusiastic welcome as well as a plenary lecture by Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of women initiate breastfeeding only to stop in the first few days or weeks postpartum. Why does this happen? It’s certainly not because of a lack of information or lack of mothers’ interest in the topic. This attrition suggests that a different approach is needed. In this presentation, discover the seven natural laws for nursing mothers that simplify breastfeeding and help mothers tap into their own innate ability. These laws are based on the latest research from around the world and will help you teach mothers more effectively for a successful breastfeeding experience.
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall
Join us for the grand opening of this year’s exhibit hall, complete with light snacks. Enjoy the chance to network and connect with close friends while meeting new ones.
Friday, October 2, 2009
6:15 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.
Morning Exercise Session: Prenatal Yoga and the Lamaze Philosophies—A Magical Connection
Ann Israel, MA, Certified Whole Birth Yoga Teacher, RYT, E-RYT, LCCE, FACCE
Whether you are a prenatal yoga teacher looking for ways to expand your class or a childbirth educator looking for some new ways to promote natural birth, this session will provide you with some alternative methods for promoting the Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices.
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Plenary Session – Branding “Magic”: Can it Give Lamaze a New Image?
Sharon Dalrymple, RN, BN, MEd, LCCE, FACCE
What does “Lamaze” truly mean to present-day childbearing women, the media or to those working in maternity settings? Find out what the Lamaze Branding Project learned, including future directions for our organization.
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions A
A-1 Celebrating the Care of Women: Viva la Difference!
Frieda Norris, RN, BSN, LCCE
Celebrate how amazing the female is! Yes, the male is unique and covered in this fun lecture, too. Childbirth educators know the obvious differences between women and men...but do they teach with the positives while minimizing the negatives? Provide true family-centered education with a relevant look at what researchers say about gender. Laugh and think again about the ageless battle of the sexes!
A-2 Conflict Management for Childbirth Educators: Assess Your Negotiation Style and Learn How to Modify Your Style to Meet the Situation
Barbara Hughes, CNM, MS, MBA, FACNM, LCCE, FACCE
Conflict is inevitable and every childbirth educator needs tools to manage conflict when it arises. This presentation gives participants the opportunity to complete a conflict style assessment. We will discuss five negotiation styles and provide recommendations for which style to use in various situations faced by many childbirth educators.
A-3 Changing the Way Lamaze Parents Think About Normal Birth
Barbara Hotelling, LCCE, FACCE
Parents arrive in our classes in all stages of acceptance of natural birth. Teaching styles and learning tasks can move parents from being unaware to actively choosing natural birth.
A-4 Embracing Technology: Sharing the Magic of Normal Birth in an iPod Culture
Lisa Crane, MSN, RN
Let’s not allow the message of healthy birth to become irrelevant in a rapidly changing world. This session will explore how we can impart childbirth education’s important messages using SMS, Podcasts, online surveys and other technologies that may be unfamiliar to us, but are a way of life for our participants.
A-5 Sexual Abuse and Assault in the Lives of Childbearing Women
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Networking Luncheon in the Exhibit Hall
Join with friends and colleagues in a relaxed atmosphere as you visit the exhibits and the Lamaze Bookstore and Media Center.
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions B
B-1 Learn How to Get the Word Out About The Birth Survey in Your Community
Nasima Pfaffl, MA
CIMS’ The Birth Survey can help empower women to make more informed choices about where and with whom to birth. The survey is a tool for birthing women nationwide to provide feedback about their doctor, midwife and birth environment. It then makes these responses available online to other women in their community along with facility-level intervention data. Come learn how you and other advocates can get involved in this project and help make The Birth Survey a vibrant resource in your community.
B-2 Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request: Future Shock or Our Reality?
Barbara Hughes, CNM, MS, MBA, FACNM, LCCE, FACCE
The hot topic of women choosing cesarean surgery is more visible since the 2006 NIH State-of-the-Science conference. Childbirth educators need current information to educate women and their families about how to make the best decision for the right reason. We will review literature published since the NIH conference and develop a framework for how to talk with women about this topic.
B-3 When There Is Heartbreak: Exploring the Role of Childbirth Educators When a Baby Dies or Is in Serious Trouble
Sherokee Ilse
When childbirth educators learn that one of their prospective parents has a bad outcome, what should they do? Wait until they are contacted or reach out to the family? Tell the other class members or not? Invite them back to the reunion? This class encourages childbirth educators to explore their role and opportunities as well as the pros and cons.
B-4 Creating a Birth Plan – Why Bother?
Carolyn Ogren, RN, CD(DONA), ICCE
How often have you heard “Will anyone really read my birth plan?” or “Oh no, she has a birth plan. Set up the O.R.” In this workshop, we will explore the multiple purposes of a birth plan. We will discuss creating a birth plan that is of value to the expectant family and the medical team while identifying some challenges that may arise during the process.
B-5 "I Can Make Milk: What's Your MAGIC Power?" Making Breastfeeding Classes Spellbinding!
Teri Shilling, MS, CD(DONA), IBCLC, LCCE
Cast your spell for a magical breastfeeding class: a dash of keeping it simple, the essence of baby-led strategies, a dollop of skin-to-skin and a serving of hand expression tips. Everything is sprinkled with wisdom about the impact of birth on breastfeeding combined with consistent, evidenced-based information stirred in and an injection of fun to bring on cackling laughter. All covered with a web of support!!
4:00 p.m – 5:15 p.m.
Plenary Session – Massage Therapy Research
Tiffany Field, PhD
Massage therapy has been effective in preventing prematurity, reducing length of labor and labor pain, enhancing growth of infants, increasing attentiveness, decreasing depression, reducing pain and enhancing immune function. Learn how clinical conditions can benefit from massage therapy plus the potential underlying mechanisms for the effects of massage therapy.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
6:15 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.
Morning Exercise Session: Surya-Namasker – Greeting the Sun
Dr. Carol Penn, DO, MA, RYT, LCCE, FACCE
Get your day off to the very best start in this sunrise session. Join us no matter what your yoga experience level is: beginner or more advanced!
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Plenary Session – Making the Magic Happen
Teri Shilling, MS, CD(DONA), IBCLC, LCCE
What are the “hot” tricks to obliterate boredom and increase retention? Now that PowerPoint is seen as “so old-fashioned,” what can you do? Want to add a little “zip” and “zing” to your repertoire? Do you just want to have some fun? Learn how to avoid the “Chatty Cathy” (like the doll) problem while facing the challenge of “chunking” your classes in a time-compressed format! Walk away with “tried and true” teaching strategies to have in your magic bag to use when the yawns are starting and the daydreaming has begun!
9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Membership Meeting
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions C
C-1 Inspiration for Independent Educators
Ami Burns, CD(DONA), LCCE
Independent childbirth classes offer great benefits to parents and educators. Get inspired to create unique classes for your community and enhance—or begin—an independent childbirth education practice.
C-2 Slow Down: You Are Breathing Too Fast
Karen Reed, CD(DONA), LCCE
Pregnant women living in the "fast lane" are not slowing down to breathe. This experiential session demonstrates how opening the body to the breath is free, simple, doesn't require equipment and supports natural birth.
C-3 Normal Birth Across Generations: Magic to Engage all Women
Mary Jo Podgurski, RNC, MA, LCCE, FACCE and Amy Podgurski-Gough, LCCE
Reach out to all women! This interactive workshop will explore teaching strategies to help Baby Boomer educators engage women from Generation X and the Me Generation. The presenters are a mother and daughter team: a seasoned childbirth educator with more than 30 years of experience in the field and a recently certified Lamaze childbirth educator. Bring your creativity, your passion and your willingness to stretch your skills to make your classes dynamic, fresh and appealing to women of all ages.
C-4 Laboring Under an Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. The Real Thing
Vicki Elson, MA, CCE
Anthropologist Vicki Elson uses 100 video clips to explore: What are the cultural influences on U.S. mothers and their care providers? How can people make informed choices free from Hollywood clichés? Vicki has been a childbirth educator for 25 years and this film is her life's work. It's hilarious, alarming and inspiring.
C-5 Courageous Childbirth – From "I Think I Can." to "Yes, I Can!"
Pat Predmore, BSN, CD(DONA), CLC/E, LCCE, FACCE
This interactive session explores current health behavior theory and teaching methods to reduce fear and enhance birthing confidence and self-efficacy. Participants will experience a variety of actual childbirth class confidence-building and labor-coping activities and evaluate their current curriculum for opportunities to spiral in elements that inspire birthing confidence.
12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Awards Luncheon
Attend this year’s Awards Luncheon and enjoy a special ceremony to induct Fellows in the American College of Childbirth Educators (FACCE).
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions D
D-1 Are You Leading the Class or Is the Class Leading You?
Robin Weiss, BA, CD(DONA), ICCE-CPE, CLC, LCCE, FACCE
Group dynamics are never easy, but as the educator, you’re in charge of setting the tone and leading the class. Do you ever abdicate this responsibility? Learn to get in charge and stay in charge.
D-2 Research Papers
- Factors Associated With Exclusive Breastfeeding Two to Three Weeks Following Discharge
Wendy Budin, PhD, RN-BC and Eileen DiFrisco, MA, RN, IBCLC
- Being Safe: Making the Decision to Have a Planned Home Birth in the US
Judy Lothian, RN, PhD, LCCE, FACCE
- Birthing Ethics: What Parents and Health Care Professionals Should Know About the Ethics of Childbirth
Raymond DeVries, PhD and Jennifer M.C. Torres, MA
D-3 Safe Sleep: How Sleep Location Affects Breastfeeding
Barbara Nicholson, MEd
This session explores the biological and cultural influences on infant sleep, what constitutes safe sleep for infants, and how co-sleeping and safe bed-sharing increase breastfeeding success.
D-4 Let's Have Fun: Be a Contestant on a Game Show!
*Please note the change in concurrent session D4*
Michele L. Deck, RN, MEd, BSN, LCCE, FACCE
Everyone loves a game show! Learn how you can use the physiology of positive emotion to bring laughter and fun into your teaching techniques as a childbirth educator. Join Michele Deck, an internationally renowned presenter, author, educator and co founder of G.A.M.E.S., a company that provides seminars specializing in adult learning and interactive teaching methods, as she teaches tips for creating your own games shows to use as fun interactive teaching strategies.
D-5 Postpartum: The Neglected Phase of Childbearing
Penny Simkin, PT, CD(DONA)
Compared to maternity care during pregnancy, when a woman is seen with increasing frequency, postpartum care is neglectful. She may see no professional for four or more weeks. This presentation covers lifetime factors that influence a woman’s postpartum adjustment and the Big 4 areas of concern in postpartum: physical recovery, mood disorders, sleep deprivation and mother-baby attachment, including feeding challenges. This session describes the role of the childbirth educator in preparing women and couples for postpartum.
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions E
E-1 Say it So They Listen
Jeanne Green, MT, CD(DONA), LCCE, FACCE
How and when do we reach pregnant women today? What are we saying and what words do we use? Can we teach it all in a day? Come for a lively discussion of topics relevant to the new and experienced educator wanting to stay in the loop. I will lead a discussion that covers what's new and what we need to do to reframe our message of "safe and healthy birth" to reach the new generation of pregnant women. We will discuss the essential topics to cover when faced with the short "labor-in-a-day" type class.
E-2 Parent Baby Connection: An Innovative Approach to Teaching Infant Care and the Emotional Transition to Parenthood
Ann Tumblin, BA, CD(DONA), LCCE, FACCE
Using workstations, you can recreate your baby care and postpartum classes into dynamic, "health fair-styled" sessions. See what one hospital has done to face-down the competition. View the adaptations for a parenting class targeted at teens.
E-3 ¿Se Habla Español?
Elena Carrillo, CD(DONA), LCCE, FACCE
This session will provide attendees with a greater understanding of the unique needs of the Hispanic population, the fastest growing minority group in America. Facing pregnancy and giving birth in a different country, without family or social support, poses a challenge not only for pregnant women but for their childbirth educators as well. We will explore cultural beliefs and traditions of Latinas during pregnancy, birth and early postpartum. Anyone serving a minority community with special needs will find this session helpful. After the session, attendees will have the necessary skills and tools to provide culturally sensitive mother-friendly care.
E-4 Working Your Magic: The Educator's Role in Reducing the Fear of Pain
Sharon Muza, BS, CD(DONA), DONA-approved Doula Trainer, LCCE
There's nothing like a good labor simulation to demonstrate to students how they can minimize their labor pain through a variety of effective coping techniques. Learn to conduct an exciting, interactive, hands-on labor simulation that will engage your students from the minute they enter your class. Your students will leave your simulation class ready to face labor and birth, secure in the knowledge that they already possess everything they need to minimize labor discomfort.
E-5 Optimizing Labor Progress: What the Research Does and Does Not Tell Us
Amy Romano, MSN, CNM
What does the evidence really say about optimizing labor progress? This talk will present the evidence for a preventive approach to reduce the need for treatments for labor progress disorders—and likelihood of their adverse effects.
7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Dine Arounds (Optional)
Stop by the hospitality desk to participate in this year’s Dine Arounds. The Orlando host committee will set up reservations at Orlando’s best restaurants and you can sign up to join with Lamaze leadership and members on these enjoyable dinners.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
6:15 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.
Morning Exercise Session: Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year—Prenatal Preparation and Postpartum Recovery
Pamela Guldi, LMT (License ma14375), CD(DONA), Certified Prenatal Yoga Facilitator
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions F
F-1 Birth Networking for Mother-Friendly Change in Your Community
Elizabeth Day, BA, CD(DONA), LCCE
You can organize consumers and birth professionals to improve maternity care in your community. See how birth networks around the country have succeeded in growing local birth movements.
F-2 Orgasmic Birth: How to Prepare for a Positive, Pleasurable, Undisturbed Birth
Debra Pascali-Bonaro, BEd, CD(DONA), PCD(DONA), LCCE
Prepare women and their partners for a positive, pleasurable and satisfying birth. Take a new look at the words and images we use. Create teaching strategies that support undisturbed, natural, ecstatic, blissful and orgasmic birth.
F-3 Unlocking the Magic of Endorphins
Jan Madsen, RN, BSN, LCCE, FACCE and Ann Grittinger, RNC, MS, LCCE, FACCE
This presentation encourages educators and class participants to look at various sensory activities to help promote the release of natural endorphins and relaxation for pregnancy, labor and birth. Through tactile activities, visual and olfactory stimulation, and auditory messages, the teacher will provide new ideas for use in the classroom and the learner will be able to select a variety of activities to use for labor coping.
F-4 Creating and Marketing Your Birth Related Business
Connie Livingston, RN, BS, CPCE, CD(DONA), CHBE, LCCE, FACCE
Birth work is very right-brained and business very left-brained. With a birthing business you have to think with both—here's how to create and market it.
F-5 Welcome to My World in Labor & Delivery: A Candid Conversation Regarding What Strategies Parents-to-be Must Know
Marilyn Hildreth, RN, IBCLC, ICCE, IAT, CD(DONA), CD(ICEA), LCCE, FACCE
This session will give childbirth educators, lactation consultants, nurses and doulas an update on the culture of a typical labor and delivery unit in the United States. The presenter will identify specific communication tools pertinent to promoting natural birth in American culture.
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Closing Plenary Session – Birth is Normal…But What IS Normal Birth?
Penny Simkin, PT, CD(DONA)
Using reports from prestigious individuals and organizations (including Lamaze International) that represent midwifery, obstetrics, family practice, childbirth education, and the public from the United Kingdom, Canada, United States and Europe, Penny will show that great differences actually exist on the definition of normal labor. She will discuss the ramifications of different definitions for maternity care and for childbirth education. She will propose a definition of normal birth to guide childbirth educators in their teaching.