Partners in Perinatal Health Conference

04/29/2019

The Partners in Perinatal Health Conference is just around the corner!

This year there is so much to learn, so much to explore! So much to bring back to your practice and to your patients!

There are so many info-dense talks planned, you have to join us for our 30th anniversary conference! Here are some highlights:
The odds of dying in pregnancy and labor are now higher than it was for our mothers . . . learn about model systems and what is being developed to reverse this tragic trend
Help pregnant moms eat mindfully and intuitively for a pregnancy – and a lifetime! – of health
With pregnancy and birth, how can women protect and heal our pelvic floors?
Traumatic birth and the critical role of the caregiver
How your hospital setting can support natural childbirth and optimize birth and lactation outcomes
Compassionate maternity care, a legacy we all want to sustain
Caring for postpartum mothers with substance use disorder
Autism and ADHD are at epidemic levels – what do we know, what can we do?
Breech . . . yes we CAN
Supporting survivors giving birth
Domestic violence and your perinatal patient
How chiropractic care can help with safe, healthy pregnancies
Pregnant veterans and a different model of care
Policy, new parents and returning to work . . . the new Massachusetts Family Leave Law . . and there is so much more

Join your colleagues and register NOW to claim your seat! We kept the pricing low, we extended our early bird rate to everyone, and we invite you to join us for Partners 30th Annual Conference!

Please register TODAY!

Mission Partners in Perinatal Health is a statewide partnership of non-profit organizations committed to improving the quality of health care available to childbearing families.Conference Goals 

04/17/2019

“Massachusetts recently passed the most generous paid family leave law in the entire country. And how this affects mothers, babies, families and YOU is at the Partners in Perinatal Health Conference!

http://www.piphma.org/register

Learn more about Massachusetts new and generous paid family leave law!
Come hear our plenary that is exclusively dedicated to sharing the details of this new law, what families can expect and when, and hear from some of the grassroots stakeholders who worked to see the passage of this ground-breaking, pro-family law in Massachusetts.

This is Partners 30th Anniversary Conference! Because you asked for it, we brought back some of your favorite speakers! Gene Declercq, Jeanne Driscoll, Naomi Bar-Yam, Neel Shah, to name but a few. And we’re bringing in what will be your new favorite speakers. You just *have* to join us for this 30th Anniversary!

Our keynotes and breakout sessions are talking about so much that affects mothers and babies and care providers . . .
• Hear about the critical importance of preserving culturally competent maternity care
• Appreciate information on reducing rates of maternal mortality
• Learn how natural childbirth in a hospital setting improves birth and lactation outcomes
• Explore pelvic floor PT which can alter lives after pregnancy and childbirth
• Help moms eat mindfullyReveal traumatic birth trauma and how powerful your role is as care provider
• Understand the Autism and ADHD epidemics . . . What do we know? What can we do?
• It takes a village . . . promoting a model of community postpartum support
• Learn to support survivors giving birth
• Update on preventing preterm birth
• Reveal chiropractic care can help pregnancy and birth outcomes
• What does our maternal mortality rate in the U.S. say about the entire field of women’s health?
• Caring for the pregnant veteran is not caring for just another mom
• Hear about the huge forces at work getting milk to babies
• Supporting mothers and babies affected by substance useLook at the human microbiome, central to all health and wellness
• Successful breech delivery . . . it is not a myth
• Antepartum support groups for hospitalized pregnant women . . . a powerful model that works
• Supporting new parents returning to work . . . policy and practical strategies
• Designing systems to improve maternal care for every mother, everywhere

And more!

Please register NOW to claim your seat! We kept the pricing low, we extended our early bird rate to everyone, and we invite you to join us for Partners 30th Annual Conference! Please register TODAY!”

http://www.piphma.org/register

REGISTRATION FOR 2018 IS NOW OPEN! PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER! SPACE IS LIMITED.  

03/14/2019

Registrations is now open for the 30th Annual Partners in Perinatal Health Conference http://www.piphma.org/register

05/04/2018

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01/30/2018

SAVE THE DATE!

ANNOUNCING:
The 29th Annual Partners in Perinatal Health Conference Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 at the Four Points by Sheraton in Norwood . . . SAVE THE DATE!

09/07/2017

Are you interested in speaking at the next Partners in Perinatal Health Conference? It's time to submit a proposal http://www.piphma.org/proposals

Partners in Perinatal Health is a partnership of non-profit organizations committed to improving the quality of health care available to childbearing families.

05/11/2016

Wow. WOW! WOW!!! Ladies . . . we did it AGAIN!

Congratulations to us ALL for yet another exceptional conference! Initial feedback has been tremendous, and . . . personally . . . I loved the day, and loved every talk I saw! Penny was such a tremendous kick-off to our day and she gave us so much to think about . . . the talks - and food! and shopping! - throughout the heart of the day were awesome . . . and Marcia Schaefer was a whirlwind of energy, information, and offered a level of provocation I haven’t caught from a keynote in many years.

I talked non-stop last night about the revelations from the whole day . . . and seeing dear, old friends . . . and making new, dear friends . . . and how it feels to revel in all of the delicious, smooshy stuff that IS Partners! And women! And the miracle that is new life! And this morning . . . I want to take action! I want to re-align our trajectories!!

Penny was right. Women need to come together and women need to PLOT! This morning I was reading an article on feminism, written by Andi Zeisler, an article that I wish I’d had yesterday, because I would have quoted from it for the whole conference. Here is an excerpt:

“ . . . to make the world itself more feminist – safer, saner, more equitable, more sustainable – requires asking more of one another and ourselves than the market can answer. It involves asking difficult, complex and uncomfortable questions about what and whom we value. It requires confronting the reality that the world has not evolved nearly as much as we’ve been led to believe it has. “

Woof. What a statement. To make the world itself more feminine: safer. saner. more equitable. more sustainable. Sisters, can I have an AMEN!!??!!

We need to take back our bodies and take back our babies and take back our planet! What can 15 . . . or 530 . . . women do in the face of 7 billion people and the toxic cascade that is the result of 2000+ years of negative energy running the world? I have absolutely no idea. But I’m personally starting today with a new resolve to clean up some of my bad habits and work to make change everywhere I have the opportunity. Every interaction, every choice I make can be positive and serve to move my infinitesimally wee, small universe – and the other infinitesimally wee, small universes it touches – in the right direction.

We are the world!

Love Albrecht Howard
La Leche League of MA/RI/VT
Partners Planning Board

02/04/2016