VIDM 2018 was held on or about 05 May, depending upon your location. The conference was brought to you by Big Blue Button technology, thanks to Frontier Nursing University.
- VIDM 2018 Opening Address: Sarah Stewart
- Speaker: Sarah Stewart, Founder, VIDM; Midwifery Adviser and Manager, Policy and Professional Practice Unit, Australian College of Midwives
- Facilitator: Jean Patterson
- Recording: https://youtu.be/9auzQac-TLg
- Keynote: The power of the woman’s voice: Protecting the midwifery workforce
- Keynote Speaker: Karen Guilliland, Chief Executive, New Zealand College of Midwives
- Facilitator: Jean Patterson
- Recording: https://youtu.be/5aVdWFvbOIA
- Eating for two or because of two: Postpartum weight retention in women in childbearing age (in Spanish)
- Speaker: Marlene Magallanes Corimanya
- Facilitator: Susana Ku
- Recording: https://youtu.be/Ccvs1nzUO1U
- The journey from pain to power: A meta-ethnography on women’s experiences of vaginal birth after caesarean
- Speaker: Hazel Keedle
- Facilitator: Jean Patterson
- Recording: https://youtu.be/gV4_ScaXTQw
- Becoming a midwife: A study of our alumni
- Speaker: Jean Patterson
- Facilitator: Hazel Keedle
- Recording: https://youtu.be/nhm8_UuwN1o
- Errors when augmenting labour with oxytocin (in Spanish)
- Speaker: Patricia Marianella Juárez Coello
- Facilitator: Susana Ku
- Recording: https://youtu.be/lLFIL_xxu2w
- Sustainability in midwifery
- Speaker: Tammi Heap
- Facilitator: Hazel Keedle
- Recording: https://youtu.be/4Vlb0B-IAG0
- From medical midwife to integrated holistic care midwifery (In English and Chinese)
- Speakers: Irene Chain Kalinowski; Meng Xue, President, Chinese Confederation of Midwives
- Facilitator: Cindy Nelly
- Recording: https://youtu.be/1_3kYHFxopg
- From midwifery educator’s perspective towards a midwifery education in Indonesia
- Speaker: Qorinah Estingingtyas Sakilah Adnani
- Facilitator: Cindy Nelly
- Recording: https://youtu.be/_sYhNAqNPwI
- Speaker: Deborah Fox
- Facilitator: Megan Koontz
- Recording: https://youtu.be/2-C8IXATxok
- Keynote: Expanding midwifery in anglophone Africa
- Keynote Speaker: Jemima Araba Dennis-Antwi, President, Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives
- Facilitator: Megan Koontz
- Recording: https://youtu.be/pWqD11BHLgY
- Obesity in pregnancy
- Speaker: Deborah Davis
- Facilitator: Annette Dalsgaard
- Recording: https://youtu.be/JaF9lXKSipM
- Designing, developing and testing ‘Home But Not Alone’ mobile phone app for new parents in the early postpartum period
- Speaker: Shefaly Shorey
- Facilitator: Linda Wylie
- Recording: https://youtu.be/NN7BgP-4TRs
- Midwifery, midwifery education and the future plan of the midwifery profession in Turkey
- Speakers: Burcu Yurtsal and Nazan Karahan
- Facilitator: Linda Wylie
- Recording: https://youtu.be/wrTO64Ik0sA
- Student Cafe : Better Births initiative from a student perspective
- Speaker: Charlene Cole, Coventry University
- Facilitator: Linda Wylie
- Recording: https://youtu.be/EPXG1m_6fT0
- Trial by media: The vilification of homebirth
- Speaker: Ella Kurz
- Facilitator: Chris Woodhouse
- Recording: https://youtu.be/VTtKY4pR3qU
- Organisational capacity building: The Bangladesh Twinning Project
- Speakers: Carmel Moran and Halima Akter
- Facilitator: Cecilia Jevitt
- Recording: https://youtu.be/LcO8UZCsFho
- Postnatal Pilates: Findings from a pilot study
- Speaker: Claire Lyon
- Facilitator: Cecilia Jevitt
- Recording: https://youtu.be/wvPKqcJ-pVo
- Student Cafe: Preparing for publication: Student perspectives
- Speakers: Georgetown University student midwives with faculty members Nancy Jo Reedy, Cindy Farley, and Esther Ellsworth Bowers
- Facilitator: Lorraine Mockford
- Recording: https://youtu.be/0S5_qEGrZTQ
- Keynote: Building a diverse midwifery workforce in the United States to improve maternity care outcomes
- Keynote Speaker: Susan Stone, President, Frontier Nursing University: President-Elect of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
- Facilitators: Jane Houston and Linda Wylie
- Recording: https://youtu.be/HlWUg1oV4A8
- Effectiveness of the intervention of professional midwives in vulnerable populations (in Spanish)
- Speakers: Maria Florencia Francisconi and Ana Clara Martínez
- Facilitator: Susana Ku
- Recording: https://youtu.be/DpZuVvrB2d4
- State-Level Advocacy course for midwifery in Mexico
- Speaker: Eliana Monteforte;
- Facilitator: Stephanie Boyd
- Recording: https://youtu.be/COdycpjTgp4
- Prenatal aspirin to reduce negative maternal and fetal outcomes in at-risk women
- Speaker: Courtney Massora
- Facilitator: Pandora Hardtman
- Recording: https://youtu.be/MtuX7gpxb5Q
- Neonatal safety with water birth: Results from our meta-analysis
- Speaker: Jennifer Vanderlaan; Priscilla Hall
- Facilitator: Pandora Hardtman
- Recording: https://youtu.be/ozytejlpMS4
- Caring for You ‘Healthy workplaces delivering high quality care’: RCM campaign
- Speaker: Gill Adgie
- Facilitator: Cindy Nelly
- Recording: https://youtu.be/z2134ekUmGo
- More than surgeries and survival: How to use statistics to inform consumers and change policy
- Speaker: Daniela Drandic, Voditeljica programa Reproduktivna prava – Head of the Reproductive Rights Program
- Facilitator: Diane John
- Recording: https://youtu.be/Nw1067SgPn4
- Rohingya humanitarian crisis: Stories from the field
- Speakers: Laureli Morrow; Melissa Dorr; Taya Mohler; and Jeanna Deswert
- Facilitator: Olufemi Olubodun
- Recording: https://youtu.be/7RuAoUgBDr0
- Optimal cord clamping: Whose blood is it anyway?
- Speaker: Amanda Burleigh
- Facilitator: Linda Wylie
- Recording: https://youtu.be/ILgpGR18UAE
- Student midwives’ use of the partogram at a district hospital in Lesotho
- Speaker: Portia Shanduka
- Facilitator: Catherine Salam
- Recording: https://youtu.be/EDR3mMr7EOM
- Closing Keynote – Franka Cadee, ICM
- Keynote Speaker: Franka Cadée, President, International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
- Facilitator: Cecilia Jevitt
- Recording: https://youtu.be/6E6xFIdn-Dk