The Cardiff Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2025 returns to Cardiff on Tuesday 23 September with a packed day of learning, networking and inspiration. Featuring over 23 expert presentations, workshops and Meet the Expert sessions, the Festival is free to attend and offers more than 10 hours of CPD and revalidation content. This year introduces a brand-new Women & Infant Health Stream, exploring the latest policy, research and practice across maternity, neonatal care, perinatal mental health, nutrition, and family support.
Cardiff Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2025
Tuesday 23 September, Cardiff City FC
Keynote address: Chief Midwifery Officer for Wales, Karen Jewell
The annual Maternity & Midwifery Festival returns to Cardiff on Tuesday 23 September.
- With over 23 expert presentations to immerse yourself in
- Free to attend
- All your revalidation resources in one place over the course of the day
- A video box set to catch up with any sessions you miss
- A fantastic mix of local and national policy, the latest innovations and research, skills workshops,
- Meet the Expert talks
- The opportunity to network with colleagues in a supportive and nurturing environment.
Designed for practising and student midwives, health visitors, neonatal nurses, educators, researchers and allied healthcare professionals, the Festival is completely free to attend and provides over 10 hours of CPD and revalidation content.
Recent policy and research developments have pointed to the importance of maternal health, nutrition in pregnancy, the microbiome, perinatal mental health, baby development, social determinants and longer monitoring of mother and baby up to 1 year.
This festival sees the development of a new Women & Infant Health Stream.
With input from health visitors, primary care, mental health and neonatal nurses, plus Obs & Gynae teams and other healthcare professionals to help shape future topics.
A powerful mix of expert talks and practical workshops, the Festival will explore how professionals at every level can lead and contribute to meaningful change.
Explore the 2025 Programme
Highlights of this year’s insightful agenda include:
- What we need to know about perinatal mental health – and why
- Improving update of early postnatal contraception
- Revisiting dignity and respect in maternity: everyone’s responsibility
- Supporting Autistic people in maternity care: lessons from research
- Developing a psychological service for families following baby loss
- Healthy eating for antenatal and postnatal health
- Supporting yourself – supporting others: tips and strategies
- Birth trauma
Outstanding Speakers
The 2025 speaker lineup brings together leading voices from across practice, policy, education, and lived experience, including:
- Karen Jewell, Chief Midwifery Officer, Welsh Government
- Anita Johnson, Associate Lecturer in Midwifery/ PhD Researcher, University of the West of England
- Dr Aimee Grant, Senior Lecturer in Public Health & Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, Swansea University
- Siân McLaughlin, Senior Lecturer / Programme Lead – Midwifery, Cardiff University
- Sarah Douglass, Clinical Psychologist for Maternity, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
- Cheri Lewis, Senior Midwife for Clinical Informatics, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
And many more, view the programme here.
In addition to the educational programme, there are opportunities to learn a new skill, including writing for publication with MATFLIX editor, Dr Jenny Hall, or knitting, explore how to eat healthily on a budget (and even to sample some tasty recipes) and meet the authors of recently published books.
Whether you’re an experienced practitioner, an academic, or just starting your training, this is an event where you’ll leave informed, inspired and empowered.
What do past delegates have to say?
- Informative and inspiring but in a relaxed and friendly environment which makes it easier to learn.
- A great networking day, makes you feel positive about going to work
- Programme content was extensive and box set will aid in further learning opportunities.
- Fantastic opportunity to refresh, review, and reconnect with old colleagues and friends.
- Great to be face to face, and good to network, with some good speakers and discussions.
- This year’s event was as informative as ever but with a diverse range of seminars and research. The best yet!
- Really varied seminars, organised well, ran smoothly and was easy to navigate online.
- Simply the BEST…inspiring, educational and so lovely to have something just for us!
- As midwives we give so much … it was like a professional spa day
Register Now
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Free parking available
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