Parenthood 2025: maternity care and experiences in the early weeksInfo Location Contact More Info Event Information
Description09.00 Registration - 16.00 Close Booking are made on a first-come first-served basis, so we kindly recommend booking early! Aims: This will be a public engagement, research, and knowledge exchange event to explore how parenthood is experienced in 2025 and how the landscape of maternity care, particularly in the early postnatal period, shapes this. Objectives: ● To explore the current landscape of parenthood in the early weeks after birth. ● Describe the expectations for childbirth, with particular reference to rapidly increasing numbers of caesarean deliveries and induction of labour. ● Consider how populations and service users experience early postnatal care (in this context) ● Consider how maternity services experience providing care ● Make recommendations for shaping and improving the experience of the early postnatal weeks for new parents.
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ContactPlease contact Ethel Burns (eburns@brookes.ac.uk) for any further queries and info. More InformationPostnatal care continues to be the ‘Cinderella’ maternity service, underfunded and neglected. Yet, it is an incredibly vulnerable time point for new parents and their babies as they transition to parenthood, whether for the first time or the fifth. While UK maternity services continue to face extreme challenges including funding shortfalls, this conference provides refreshing multidisciplinary insights regarding current innovations and best practices. With perspectives from service users, midwifery, obstetrics, general practice, charities, and researchers, this conference will explore the challenges but, crucially, inspire what can be achieved within the national context. Audience This conference welcomes Mothers, birth workers, midwives and all maternity multiprofessionals, birth workers, students, lecturers, and researchers Fee £20 Health Care Professionals and Birth workers £10 Students Fee includes tea/coffee and lunch. Programme information Time - 09.00 Registration - 16.00 Close Speakers will include Maternity Voices, Professor Tina Miller, Epidemiologist Dr Maria Quigley, Midwife and Researcher, Dr Claire Feeley, and more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
