Empowerment Birth Summit 2017

Saturday
​ February 11

10 am Opening – Dedication, Objective, Guidelines and Sponsors

Meeting Room A

 10:30 am  The United State of Birth:
A feminist history of birth in America Amanda Hardy Hillman,MA, PhD, LPC, ICCE
 
 11:30 am     Meet the Doulas
       Speed Dating Style
 
 12:30 pm  Empowered Dialogue with Your Care Provider 
Melanie Anne Rainbow-Harel
 
 1:30 pm    Prenatal Yoga Demo
Kelli Jackson Amato, Zen Den 

 2:10 pm   Massage for Mom  
Barb Brender, LMT 
 
3:00 pm   Belly Dance for Birth  
Melanie Hexen, CPM, Doula, Educator

4:00 pm    Midwives Meet and Greet
 Iowa Midwives Association 
   
 5:00 pm    Healing Your Birth Story 
Diana Fern, Traditional Midwife

Meeting Room D

 10:30 am  Delivered:
 Recipe for Achieving Your Optimal Birth Experience
Dr. Mike Sedlacek 
Congruent Life Chiropractic​ 
          
 11:30 am  The Circumcision Decision
Sarah VanDeWalle, Intact Quad Cities

 1:00 pm    Midwives in Other Countries
 Moira Weitz, Certified Professional Midwife

 2:00 pm    Birth Experience Matters
​                The How and Why
Gypsy Dolgos, Radical Feminist and Women's Health Advocate

3:00 pm   BABYWEARING
            CONNECTIONS             
Iowa City Babywearers
Aradia Wyndham and Kelsey Sandeno

 4:00 pm  Healing After Pregnancy Loss
 Dr. Tanya English, Quantum Healing Chiropractic
 
5:00 pm  Perfect Storm: A Recipe for Unraveling ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism
Dr. Mike Sedlacek 
​Congruent Life Chiropractic

Meeting Room B

11:00 am Nutrition, Herbs and Homeopathy:The Childbearing Years
Dara Flecksing and Diana Fern 
Traditional Midwives

12 noon Breastfeeding
     Does a Family Good
Dawn Crist 

1:00 pm   Why a Doula?  
Felicia Wagner, RN
iowacitydoula.com

2:00 pm  Sexual Trauma and Birth
Alison Oliver, MSW 
 
3:00 pm  Empowered Men
      Protectors in Birth
Kip Westgard 

 4:00 pm  Preparing for Postpartum
Strategies to Minimize Depression and Depletion
Felicia Wagner, RN, Doula
Amanda Hardy Hillman, MA, PhD, LPC, Kristin Bergman, LPN, LMT, Doula 

 5:00 pm  Placenta Encapsulation
 Hannah Sandler, Doula iowacitybirth.com

Available from local author...

Ghostbelly

In her memoir GHOSTBELLY (Feminist Press), Iowa Citian Elizabeth Heineman describes her 2008 full-term stillbirth. The book is now widely used in teaching social workers, birth professionals, and grief professionals - and it has been passed hand-to-hand among survivors of pregnancy and infant loss. Lisa has extra copies of the book which she's selling for $10 rather than the $16.95 list price. If you're interested, feel free to send her an email at lisa_heineman@world.oberlin.edu.

Free and Open to the Public