Watch live from 09:30 on Tuesday 18th April 2023

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At various points during the festival you have a choice of different parallel seminar streams to participate in.

Please use the links below to access these seminars at the appropriate time, check the agenda for full details of all parallel seminars. If you are joining Stream B or Stream C on Zoom please remember to close the live stream page or mute the video player, otherwise you will get audio from both streams simultaneously.

STREAM A: Available to view via the main live stream above.

STREAM B: PARTICIPATE HERE (Zoom Webinar)

STREAM C: PARTICIPATE HERE (Zoom Webinar)

Speaker presentation slides and other relevant festival documentation are available for delegates to access via the link below.

Access your All-Ireland Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2023 delegate resources here.

09.30 Chair’s opening remarks and welcome
Lynda Moore, Executive Member for Midwifery, The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation

09.45 Keynote address: Evolving role of the midwife in Ireland
Sheila McClelland, Chief Executive, Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland

10.05 Obstetric violence – addressing international practice
Dr Hazel Keedle, Academic Program Advisor Bachelor of Midwifery, Senior Lecturer of Midwifery/SFHEA, Western Sydney University, Australia

10.20 Birth trauma – the experience of women
Ursula Nagle, PhD Candidate, Trinity College Dublin; Registered Advanced Midwife Practitioner, Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service, Rotunda Hospital, Dublin

10.35 Audience Q&A

10:45 Break

11:25 Keeping up with new demands and new approaches
Angela Dunne, Infant and Child Development Lead, National Midwifery Strategy, HSE

11:45 Times they are a changing
Mary Brosnan, Director of Midwifery and Nursing, National Maternity Hospital Dublin; Adjunct Associate Professor, UCD School of Nursing and Midwifery

12:05 Audience Q&A

12:20: Announcement of the Maternity & Midwifery Forum Trailblazers Award Winners

12:30 Break

13:30 Parallel Seminars

A1: Postnatal nutrition and the importance of iron
Avril Flynn, Midwife, Childbirth Educator & Hypnobirth Practitioner; Active Iron Pregnancy Advisor; Writer and Contributor

B1: Tech changes in Diabetes treatment
Dawn Adams, PhD Researcher, Ulster University

C1: A review of the current management of Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) in the Republic of Ireland: using a case study approach
Imelda Fitzgerald, Clinical Placement Co-ordinator, Cork University Maternity Hospital

14:05 Parallel Seminars

A2: Embedding peer support and staff\student partnership in midwifery education: a reflection
Dr Jean Carragher and Dr Anita Byrne, Midwifery Lecturers, School of Health and Eimear Hearty and Sophie Murray, Student Midwives, Dundalk Institute of Technology

B2: The standards of proficiency for midwives – defining safety
Verena Wallace MBE, Senior Midwifery Advisor (Policy), Nursing and Midwifery Council

C2: Complex pregnancies: midwives’ perspectives on their changing roles
Ciara O’Dwyer, Midwife, University Hospital Waterford

14:35 Break

15:10 Parallel Seminars

A3: Midwifery workplace culture: psychologically safe, resilient and re-energised!
Sue Hendy and Dr Cathy Adams, Directors, Resilience in Health

B3: What are the current interventions for women with substance misuse disorder and/or alcohol use disorder during pregnancy? A systematic review
Deborah Pinkerton-Holmes, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Addictions, Northern and Social Care Trust

15:45  Parallel Seminars

A4: VBAC or elective CS? An exploration of decision-making process employed by women on their mode of birth following a previous lower segment caesarean section
Roisin Lennon, Registered Advanced Midwife Practitioner, Sligo University Hospital

B4: What matters to women (and what women birthing in Ireland want and need)
Dr Déirdre Daly, Director, Trinity Centre for Maternity Care Research (TCMCR); Associate Professor in Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin

16.15 Festival closes

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