MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE OBJECTIVES
The main objective of this conference is to phrase new questions
at a time when rapid technical and scientific advances are leading
to a crossroads in the history of childbirth and the history of
humanity. Our history is suddenly pushed towards two opposite
directions. On the one hand the caesarean has become an easy and
fast operation. On the other hand an accumulation of recent scientific
data suggests that the perinatal period is critical for the development
of the capacity to love.
According to plausible extrapolations, within some decades the
majority of human beings will be born by the abdominal route.
And in the case of vaginal births, the replacement of natural
hormones with pharmacological substitutes will almost be the rule.
Since the behavioural effects of hormones involved in childbirth
have been recently clarified, we can interpret and summarise this
new situation by claiming that human ingenuity has made “love
hormones” useless in a highly critical period of reproductive
life. This redundancy of love hormones occurs at the very time
when humanity must invent radically new strategies for survival
based on the development of all facets of love, including the
respect for mother earth.
The participation of Prof Michael Stark from
Berlin - as the “father” of the simplified, fast and
easy technique of caesarean, and as the founder of the “New
European Surgical Academy” - will symbolise the ascendancy
of technical advances.
The participation of Prof Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg,
from Stockholm – as an expert in the behavioural effects
of oxytocin – will symbolise the most significant recent
scientific advances.
The participation of Anthony Costello, Professor
of International Health at the London Institute of Child Health,
will underline the need for questions raised at a global level.
The participation of Dr Mario Merialdi, coordinator
for maternal and perinatal health at WHO, will suggest the importance
of “global action” as a new watchword.
The location of the conference in the middle of the ocean is
a way to encourage participants to come from all continents.
The term “Primal Health Research” is used to favour
long-term thinking. “Primal Health Research” is a
developing branch of epidemiology that brings together studies
exploring correlations between what happens during the “Primal
period” (fetal life, perinatal period and year following
birth) and what occurs later on in life in terms of health and
personality traits. Such studies are compiled in the “Primal
Health Research Database” (www.primalhealthresearch.com).
This conference is open to all health professionals interested
in the future of humanity.
Registration at
www.obstare.com
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Friday 26 February 2010 (18:00)
Opening session with a renowned authority as our guest speaker.
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PLENARY SESSIONS
(In the prestigious Symphony Hall: seating capacity 1,656)
Saturday 27 February 2010.
9:00 Welcoming address. Prof Garcia Hernandez
(Las Palmas), Heloisa Lessa (Brasil), Dr Michel Odent (France-UK).
9:30 Prof Michael Stark (Germany): The Misgav
Ladach. Caesarean Section – Methods and Years of International
Experience.
10:45 Prof Uvnäs-Moberg (Stockholm) : Oxytocin,
The Inner Guide To Motherhood
12:00 Coffee break. Exhibits.
12:30 Dr Michel Odent (France-UK): New Criteria
To Evaluate The Practices Of Obstetrics/Midwifery.
13:45 Lunch break. Exhibits.
15:15 Prof Anthony Costello (UK): Progress In
Maternal and Newborn Care In Developing Countries.
16:30 Prof Sylvie Odent (France): A New Era In
Prenatal Medicine.
17:30 Closing remarks: Heloisa Lessa.
18:00 Exhibits
Sunday 28 February 2010
9:30 Dr Mario Merialdi (WHO Geneva—Italy).
Global Action: A Twenty First Century Watchword.
10:15 Dr De Miguel Sesmero (Spain).
11:00 Dr Michel Odent (France—UK): The
Prime Inconvenient Truth.
11:45 Coffee break. Exhibits.
12:15 Round table: Childbirth in 2050. Prof Michael
Stark, Prof Uvnäs-Moberg, Prof Anthony Costello, Dr Mario
Merialdi, Jan Tritten, Ina May Gaskin, Isabel Castillo, Peggy
O'Mara, Naoli Vinaver, Robbie Davis-Floyd, Sheila Kitzinger. Moderator:
Laura Uplinger.
13:45 Closing remarks: Prof Garcia Hernandez, Heloisa Lessa, Dr
Michel Odent.
14:00 Lunch break. Exhibits
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WORKSHOPS
Friday 26 February 2010 (9:30 to 17:30)
Group A (from 9am to 11 am)
- A1 - To cut or not to cut, that is the question – Episiotomy
in the age of evidence-based obstetrics? (with Michael Stark,
from Berlin, as the founder of the New European Surgical Academy).
- A2 - How do ward routines influence behaviour/health of mother,
infant, and coming generations (with Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg,
as Professor of physiology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm).
- A3 - Birth plans: from projects to reality (with Vincenç
Cararach, as Professor of Obstetrics, Barcelona).
- A4 - Transcendent emotional states in childbirth (with Jenny
Hall, as editor of “The Practising Midwife”, UK, Cathy
Daub, as the author of “Birthing in the Spirit”, and
Ina May Gaskin, as the author of “Spiritual Midwifery”).
- A5 - Primary midwifery care in and outside hospital setting
(with Mary Zwart, as a midwife from Holland).
- A6 - Global politics for the protection of prenatal life (with
Ionna Mari, from Athens, President of OMAEP: World Organisation
of Prenatal Education Associations).
- A7 - New trends in neonatology (Roundtable moderated by Fermin
Munoz, from Gran Canaria, with Justino Rodriguez, from Bilbao,
Ricardo Chavez, from Rio de Janeiro, Gomez Papi, from Tarragona)
- A8 - Colostrum: from anthropology to public health (with Pascal
Odent. Institute of Child Health. London).
- A9 - The future of ‘Globish’ in international conferences
(with Elizabeth Noble, as an amateur linguist).
Group B (from 11:30 am to 13:30)
- B1 - Birth, infant feeding, and international health (with
Anthony Costello, as Professor of International Health, London).
- B2 - Gene expression and Primal Health Research (with Michel
Odent. Primal Health Research Centre).
- B3 - The priorities of "Improving Maternal and Perinatal
Health WHO team" (with Mario Merialdi).
- B4 - War or Peace: it all starts around Birth (with Eva Gundberg,
from Caracas, as an obstetrician and student of human nature,
and Laura Uplinger, on behalf of Association of Pre- and Perinatal
Psychology And Health).
- B5 - The anthropology of childbirth (with Robbie Davis Floyd,
USA).
- B6 - Normal Birth matters (with Maria Helena Bastos, as an obstetrician
with a PhD in midwifery, and Naoli Vinaver, as a midwife in Mexico).
- B7 - Learning from unusual normality: salutogenesis, complexity
and uncertainty in maternity care (with Soo Downe, as Professor
and Head of Research, Faculty of Health, University of Central
Lancashire)
- B8 - Childbirth and Sexuality (with Verena Schmid, as founder
of Scuola Elementale di Arte Ostetrica, Italy)
Group C (from 15:00 to 17:30)
- C1 - To cut or not to cut…the cord. That is another question
(with Robin Lim, as a midwife in Bali).
- C2 - Writing about mothering (roundtable with Jan Tritten, USA,
Peggy O'Mara, USA, Sheila Kitzinger, UK, Isabel Castillo, Spain,
Ina May Gaskin, USA).
- C3 - Primal Health Research: the globalisation of a concept
(with Jackie Chang, from South Korea, Yolanda Contreras, from
Concepcion University, Chili, Veronika Maslova, from Moscow, Esther
Culpin, from Scotland, Verena Schmid, from Italy).
- C4 - Being born too soon – Unexpected challenge, unexpected
stress for babies-mother and doctors. Real advances or just innovations?
Present and future. With Jorge César Martínez, as
Professor of neonatology (Argentina).
- C5 - Is undisturbed childbirth utopian? (Roundtable moderated
by Pr Vicenç Cararach, with Enrique Lebrero, from Aquario
casa de parto, Jesus Sanz, from Tenerife, Julia Jeppens, from
Gran Canaria, Jenny Smith, from London)
- C6 - Breastfeeding in the age of the safe caesarean (roundtable.
Moderator: Madalena Villianueva, Las Palmas. With Luis Pena, founder
of ‘Via Lactea’, Eulalia Torras, ‘Federacion
de grupos de apoyo a la lactancia’, Carlos Gonzales, paediatrician,
Barcelona, Claudia Orthof, founder of ‘Grupo Amigas do Peito’,
Rio de Janeiro).
- C7 - The doula phenomenon (Miniforum moderated by Clara Scropetta.
Italy).
- C8 - Starting childbirth and breastfeeding education in adolescence:
is it too late? (Roundtable moderated by Adriana Ortiz, with Marian
Goles, from Albacete, Eleonora Madruga Luzes, from Brasil, Isabel
Aller, from Sevilla, Maria Jesus Blasquez, from Zaragoza, Maria
Carmen Santana, from Fuerteventura).
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FORUMS
Sunday 28 February 2010
15:30 to 17:30. International roundtable
on the future of medical practices in the perinatal period.
Moderator: Prof Vincenç Cararach, Barcelona
15:30 to 17:30. International roundtable on the future
of midwifery. Moderator: Frances Day Stirk, on behalf
of The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM).
