HMHB 2016

Perinatal Services BC's second biennial conference Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies: Advances in Clinical Practice and Research Across the Continuum was held in Vancouver on March 11-12, 2016.

The conference was an opportunity for health care professionals interested in the care of pregnant and postpartum women and their newborns to be updated on new research and clinical best practices across the continuum of perinatal and newborn care.

With over 330 participants, the conference engaged health care professionals from a wide range of disciplines in knowledge transfer and interprofessional collaboration that they can apply in their own practice to provide the best care possible and ensure healthy mothers and babies.

Conference Materials

Plenary Videos

What Makes Good Health Care: A Mother's Perspective

Tamara Taggart

Normalizing Birth from Policy, Practice, and Lived Experience

Panel

The Biology of Loss: Recognizing the Consequences of Impaired Attachments and Fostering Resilience

Dr. Gabor Maté

Presentations: March 11, 2016

Note: The following presentations are posted with speakers' consent. If the session you are looking for is not listed below, it means that the speaker(s) did not allow for their presentation to be available online.

March 11, 2016

The Impact of Maternal Weight and Gestational Weight Gain on Birth Weight

Núria Chapinal

The 5 As of Healthy Pregnancy Weight Gain: A New Tool and Training for BC Primary Care Providers

Adam King, Christina Kay

College of Midwives – Quality Assurance Program

Doris Chan

Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies: Bridging the Gap in Perinatal Care for Women with Spinal Cord Injury

Melanie Basso, Karen Hodge

Birth after Caesarean: How Do Women Make Decisions about Mode of Delivery

Sarah Munro

The BC Healthy Connections Project: A Scientific Evaluation of Nurse-Family Partnership in British Columbia

Donna Jepsen, Nicole Catherine, Pamela Parkinson

Two Practice Concerns in BC: Safe Infant Sleep Recommendations and Policies Supporting Breastfeeding Exclusion and Duration: Improving Health while Reducing Costs

Part 1

Part 2

Rhoda Taylor, Tina Revai

Physicians’ Breastfeeding Toolkit: A New Collaborative Resource Developed in Newfoundland and Labrador

Amanda Pendergast

Gestational Diabetes in South Asian and Chinese Women in BC & Alberta

Brooke Kinniburgh, Lily Lee

CPT1a: Health and Wellness for First Nation Babies Who May Have This Genetic Variant

Lucy Barney, Nataliya Skuridina, Barbara Webster

Apple Tree Maternity: A Qualitative Exploration of Rural Collaborative Interprofessional Maternity Care

Tanya Momtazian, Emma Butt, Jeanette Boyd

Seamless Perinatal Transition Team – The Move to Implementation