Midwives' Association of WA State 2010 Spring Conference Brings an Exciting Lineup of Speakers Friday May 14 at Seattle Pacific University

The recently released "Blueprint for Action" based on last year's Childbirth Connection Symposium includes a goal of cross-training among providers of maternity care. In the spirit of furthering this goal, MAWS is excited to offer a cross-disciplinary spring conference that we hope will attract a wide array of maternity care providers. Please share this opportunity with everyone you think may be interested - midwives (licensed midwives, nurse midwives, naturopathic midwives), OBs, Family Practice physicians, OB and Family Practice residents, OB nurses, doulas, childbirth educators. We are especially interested in welcoming hospital-based providers for an opportunity to share our respective perspectives.

As a keynote speaker MAWS is pleased to welcome Michael Klein MD, Emeritus Professor of Family Practice and Pediatrics from the University of British Columbia. For anyone not familiar with Michael Klein, he was one of the principals on the recent home birth study out of BC and is outspoken in his support for midwifery and normal birth. Aside from the homebirth research, Michael is eager to present findings around the attitudes towards birth of different types of care providers.

Penny Simkin will speak about her recently published work on the Occiput Posterior Fetus; Molly Gray ND/LM will speak about toxins in pregnancy (Molly recently testified at a Senate hearing on this topic); and Sheila Capestany will be discussing the superb outcomes from the Open Arms Community Doula Project.

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All-Region Peer Review
All LMs who are MAWS members must participate in peer review every two years. An all-region peer review will be held on Saturday, May 15, 2010, the day after the conference.  The peer review will be held at the Bastyr Department of Midwifery/SMS Talaris campus in the large classroom. For details and to RSVP for the peer review, please send an email to Sunita Iyer.

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