Day 2 :
Keynote Forum
Robert Toporek
TeamChildren, USA
Keynote: Hands-on parenting: A practical guide to massage for happier, healthier, smarter kids and parents
Time : 9:30-10:30
Biography:
Robert Toporek has produced an award-winning video documentary and published a monograph entitled The Promise of Rolfing Children. Since 1975, Robert has Rolfed and documented amazing transformations of more than 4,500 men, women and children. In 1978, Dr. Rolf chose him to develop a project to launch her vision of Rolfing babies and children. Robert is also a decorated Vietnam veteran and a successful nonprofit leader.
Abstract:
The power and importance of touch in human growth and development cannot be overstated. Neuroscience is now verifying that from the moment we are conceived, our brains grow at the fastest rate until age five or six. Science has shown that touch is an essential part of our cognitive, physical, and social/emotional development.
In an article on the importance of touch, author Crystal Leonard states, "Touch is by far the most interesting and necessary of the 'five senses.' Any movement requires an acute awareness of one’s own body which is gained through proprioception, an internal form of tactile sense. The sense of touch develops before all other senses in embryos, and is the main way in which infants learn about their environment and bond with other people. This sense never turns off or takes a break, and it continues to work long after the other senses fail in old age. Throughout life, people use their sense of touch to learn, protect themselves from harm, relate to others, and experience pleasure. Interestingly, positive touch from others is necessary for an individual’s healthy development. Despite the presence of all other life requirements, infants will fail to thrive without this positive touch.
Rolfing is a highly specialized from of mind-and-body transformation. Robert is on the cutting edge of bringing this powerful form of touch and education to babies and children. He has worked with both babies and children that are perfectly healthy and those that have developmental challenges. He has worked with babies and kids with bowed legs, scoliosis, poor posture, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Asperger’s, and other conditions. Robert has extensive long-term video and photographic documentation on the value of this work. His new book, Hands-On Parenting: A Practical Guide to Massage for Happier, Healthier, Smarter Kids, is full of easy-to-read common-sense approaches parents can use to advance their babies' and children’s academic, economic, and social development.
- Midwifery Care | Neonatal Research | Midwives in Maternal Care | Women Health | Maternal and Child Health | Neonatal Diagnosis
Location: Superior Ballroom C
Chair
Molly Patterson
University Hospitals of Leicester, UK
Co-Chair
Julia Austin
University Hospitals of Leicester, UK
Session Introduction
Karen H Strange
Integrative Resuscitation of the Newborn workshop, USA
Title: The baby’s experience of birth: Practices for healing and repair, regardless of where birth occurs
Time : 11:50-12:50
Biography:
Abstract:
There is an embryological blueprint for what happens at birth (and before) for the baby on all levels of their being, physiologically, psychologically and emotionally. An awareness of this blueprint creates a new conceptual framework for what is embedded in the process of birth. Once you are aware of the sequence of events that occurs spontaneously throughout the process of gestation, labor, birth and beyond (a sequence that all mammals follow) you will have a glimpse of how birth was “set up to work in case no one was there”. When interruptions or interruptions occur in the sequence of birth a profound imprint is left which impacts how we come into relationship with everyone we meet, with ourselves, and how we live our lives daily. Specific methods are taught for healing, repair and integration.
Lisa Quinn & Karen Lumia
Gannon University, USA
Title: Folic acid use in women of childbearing age
Time : 13:50-14:50
Biography:
Dr. Lisa Quinn is a 2007 Graduate of Kent State University with a PhD in Health Education/Promotion. She is currently on faculty at Gannon University in Erie Pennsylvania. She teaches both undergraduate, graduate and DNP students. She holds certification as a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner.
Abstract:
The initial CDC recommendation specific to folic acid was made in 1992. Following decades of intense scrutiny on the relationship between vitamin intake and neural tube defects, the U.S. Public Health Service made the following recommendation: “All women of childbearing age in the United States who are capable of becoming pregnant should consume 400mcg of folic acid per day; for the purpose of reducing the risk of having a pregnancy affected with spina bifida and other neural tube defects” (CDC, 1992).
Despite increased media campaigns and ongoing educational programs, many women still do not begin taking a folic acid supplement prior to conception. Similar to other relationships between health knowledge and health behavior, there is a gap between awareness of the importance of folic acid supplementation and folic acid use. Specifically, knowledge and awareness of folic acid supplementation does not always guarantee folic acid use prior to conception.
Recent literature provides evidence that a majority of women of childbearing age still do not take a daily multivitamin supplemented with the recommended 400mcg of folic acid. It is vital to the health of women and their offspring that health care and health promotion professionals identify the most effective strategies for promoting optimal health for this population. A message of daily multivitamin intake for all women initiated by health care providers and reinforced by people in the woman’s support system may be one such strategy. Other strategies supported by this research include identifying creative ways to change a woman’s attitude about multivitamin use.
Eleftheria Taousani
Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
Title: Prenatal depression in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and the exercise effect
Time : 14:50-15:10
Biography:
Abstract:
Background: Recent studies revealed that the prevalence of depression during pregnancy was higher in women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) than in uncomplicated pregnancies. Exercise is an important aspect in the management of both depression and GDM. Nevertheless, very few studies have examined the effect of exercise in the management of depression during pregnancy. The aim of this randomized control trial was to measure the prevalence of antenatal depression in women diagnosed with GDM, who exercised systematically or not during pregnancy.
Methods: Thirty-four pregnant women with GDM, attending a University Clinic of Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders in pregnancy, participated in the study. Twenty-one women (group “Exercise”) were randomly engaged in an 6-8 week program of regular aerobic exercise, 3-4 times per week. Thirteen women (group “Advice”) were randomly assigned to receive the typical care for GDM, without participating in an exercise program. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was used to measure depression. The questionnaires were completed twice, in 26-30 weeks of gestation (following diagnosis of GDM) and 37-38 weeks (delivery).
Findings: There was no significant difference at week 26-30, between “Exercise” and “Advice” groups (9.9 ± 4.8 vs. 9.3 ± 4.7 p = 0738) on the contrary there was significant difference at week 37-38 (8.7 ± 3.9 vs. 11.9 ± 3.6, respectively, p = 0.015). In addition, there was significant decrease in the “Exercise” group between the two appliances of the questionnaire (9.9 ± 4.8 vs. 8.7± 3.9, p = 0.008), as well as significant increase in the “Advice” group (9.3 ± 4.7 vs. 11.9 ± 3.6, p = 0.025).
Conclusion: Participating in a regular aerobic exercise program has a protective role in the prevention of depression in women with GDM. Midwives and Health care professionals should encourage women with GDM to include exercise as an important part of their treatment plan.
AHM Nouman
Development Organization of the Rural Poor, Bangladesh
Title: Neonatal nursing is a holistic approach: A bottom line model
Time : 15:10-15:30
Biography:
Abstract:
Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of neonatal and newborn nursing care. mother and child must be considered as one unit. Since the bottom lining mother’s role is the integral meaning a holistic approach needs to invest from the womb - a Bottom up-Top down matchmaking planning. Development Organization of the Rural Poor (DORP) innovated, Bangladesh government provides having 7 criterion maternity allowances to the poor mothers for 24 months from conception Day investing @ USD 6.25/month per mother covering 0.8 million yearly promoting resting, breastfeeding, safe delivery, economic-social freedom, privacy, safe and accessible sanitation, safe water, environment, cleanliness, nutritious food, vaccination and covering ante and postnatal care for both mother and healthy baby. Centering Maternity Allowance graduation further INVESTMENT needs to be titled Social Assistance Program for Non-Asseters (SAPNA) package, providing 1250 USD/mother with holistic partnership supports like Health, Education, Housing, Livelihood, and Savings plus by 20 years a generation staggering – stands self-reliant. Homegrown, practiced, evidence-based, DORP evolved loop closed SAPNA package subsequently replicated by Women and Children Affairs Ministry, for Ending Poverty linking SDG one estimating 10 million mothers lessening discrimination. Because poverty and peace can’t walk together. Mother is a god gifted coordinator, manager, economist, guardian, and supervisor. Thus, influenced, consciously or unconsciously terrorized syndication of unnecessary medical interventions, doctors, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals control and dominate over the birthing process shall defeat. WHO’s global care model for healthy pregnant women, low cost self-sustaining, captured, self-propelling, affordable and combat maternal and neonatal well-being shall win, where another world is possible.