WEBINAR 2

Dr Rachel Reed

Topic: Routine Interventions – What You Need to Know

Rachel is a Lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast and a homebirth midwife. She is committed to the promotion of physiological birth, and of women’s innate ability to birth and mother. Rachel’s PhD thesis is ‘midwifery practice during birth: rites of passage and rites of protection’. Rachel has written articles for journals, magazines and websites, and presented at many conferences and study days. She is also the author of the MidwifeThinking blog.

WEBINAR 4

Dr Sara Wickham

Topic: Vitamin K and Decision-Making

Dr Sara’s career has been varied and includes twenty years of experience as a midwife, lecturer and researcher. We are very excited to have her on our program. She is the author/editor of twelve books, has lectured in more than twenty countries, has been the editor of two midwifery journals and provides consultancy services for midwifery and health-related organisations around the world.

WEBINAR 6

Dawn Whitten

Topic: Breastfeeding and Solid Introduction

Dawn is a naturopath and herbalist with a passion for working with mums and babies. She she has been certified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and feels a deep sense of wonder for the very ordinary activities of birthing, breastfeeding and parenting. These activities are undertaken by individuals but it is the cultural framework, nature of support, and access to information that can profoundly influence many aspects of their expression. In this webinar Dawn will be sharing breastfeeding tips for you and baby as well as suggestions on how and when to introduce solid foods.

WEBINAR 8

Toni Powell

Topic: The Importance of Happiness for Babies Development and Families Wellbeing

Join popular, and often hilarious speaker Toni Powell for a one hour webinar adventure where you’ll be inspired and entertained. Toni is a filmmaker, storyteller, author and sought-after speaker with a rare talent for taking the big issues of life and making their solutions easy, entertaining and memorable.

She has had her life transformed by gratitude and she (seriously) just wants to run out into the street and grab everyone and tell them that they can have their life changed too. Get ready for an hour of ‘aha’ moments that will make your life a whole lot more satisfying.

WEBINAR 10

Shivam Rachana Evans

Topic: The First Vital Hour Of Life

Rachana Evans is a respected birth educator and pioneer of conscious childbirth practices. She lectures around the world on water birth, lotus birth and the prevention & healing of birth trauma. She is passionate about the power of the imprinting process and the significance of the pre and peri-natal experience for mother and baby.

In 1991 she founded the International College of Spiritual Midwifery. ICSM is centred on women returning to the integrity of their bodies and the inherent power that is within and provides women with the opportunity to undertake the journey to freedom through information and making fully informed choices.

WEBINAR 12

Pinky Mckay

Topic: Breastfeeding – It’s More Than Milk!

Pinky McKay is a best-selling author with four titles including Sleeping Like a baby, 100 Ways to Calm the Crying, Toddler Tactics and Parenting By Heart. In a world where common sense isn’t so common, Pinky McKay provides real-world, no-nonsense, parenting support and approaches with a blend of humour, sharp wit and wisdom not found anywhere else.

She specialises in gentle parenting styles that honour mothers’ natural instincts to respond to their babies and empower a positive response from infants and toddlers. She says, “Babies and toddlers are people too and they deserve empathy and respect, not ‘training’ through techniques such as rigid routines, controlled crying or spanking. This allows children to respond positively to their environment and to develop appropriate boundaries through mutual respect and strong family relationships.”

WEBINAR 14

Dr Jason Hawrelak

Topic: Nourishing and Protecting the Baby Biota

Dr. Jason did his Honours and PhD degrees in the area of the gut microbiota and the clinical applications of prebiotics and probiotics and has written extensively in Australian and international textbooks and journals on these topics. As a clinician, the main focus of Jason’s practice is in the treatment of gastrointestinal conditions. His particular passion is in restoring the gastrointestinal microbiota to optimal health, which is an underlying need in many gut conditions – but is also an important, but often neglected, area of prenatal and infant care.

WEBINAR 16

Meg Nagle

Topic: Finding Your Inner Marsupial – 7 Steps To A More Peaceful Postpartum.

In between breastfeeding her youngest boy, chasing after her oldest two boys, blogging and occasionally sleeping… Meg, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), works in private practice and with women to help them reach their breastfeeding goals. She offers breastfeeding help and support in person, and worldwide via Skype. She has a degree in Psychology and is passionate about helping women reach their breastfeeding goals and loves helping to get the word out about how women can do this! She places a huge emphasis on sharing evidenced based research without the sugary coating so women can make informed decisions on how to go about feeding their babies.

WEBINAR 18

Robynne Dodds

Topic: Fermented Foods for Building Better Babies

Join Robynne from Bodyologie as she inspires you to take control of your child’s digestive health through the introduction of natural probiotic rich foods. Drawing on her role as a naturopath and mother, Robynne has a wealth of knowledge and personal experience to share with you. She will inspire you to explore and include fermented foods in your daily life. In this webinar, learn how fermented foods can easily be introduced into your daily life to assist in preventing a number of childhood digestive, skin and respiratory conditions and promote maximum health for your child.

WEBINAR 20

Dr Kathleen Kendall-Tackett

Topic: The Neuropsychological Effects of Sleep Training and Its Implications for Breastfeeding

Kathleen Kendall-Tackett is a health psychologist and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. A prolific author, she has written more than 320 journal articles, book chapters and other publications, and is author or editor of 22 books in the fields of trauma, women’s health, depression, and breastfeeding.

Sleep training continues to be a popular parenting philosophy with its roots in American Behaviorism. The idea behind this approach is that if you want to stop a behavior, don’t “reinforce” it, which increasing its likelihood that it reoccur.

This presentation will describe recent research in neuroscience on the importance of responsive early parenting on brain development, and harmful effects of leaving babies to cry. Non-responsive parenting raises babies’ cortisol levels. Cortisol is toxic to brain cells, particularly in the hippocampus. This research is also put in the context of current AAP recommendations to keep babies in the parents’ room during the first six months, and how solitary sleep increases the babies’ risk of SIDS.

WEBINAR 22 – with Mary O’Dwyer and Fiona Rogers

Topic: Rebirth Your Pelvic Floor!

Mary O’Dwyer

Mary Is a Women’s health physiotherapist and divides her time between clinical work and teaching workshops on the pelvic floor for women, fitness trainers, midwives and physiotherapists internationally. She is committed to improving women’s pelvic floor health especially through pregnancy and postpartum. Mary’s 3 books provide practical solutions to prevent damage and recover pelvic floor health.

Fiona Rogers

Fiona is a Women’s Health Physiotherapist and works exclusively in the area of women’s health treating a large variety of conditions including caring for women throughout and beyond their pregnancy. She now divides her time between clinical work and running her website focused on pelvic floor exercise devices and resources. She is trusted and recommended by health professionals across the country and internationally. Fiona is passionate about sharing the message of pelvic floor health and does this through her blog and high profile social media presence worldwide.