2024 ACBP Conference Agenda

Time	Session	Speaker/Leader
10:00 am (includes lunch)	Basic Life Support (BLS) Training The Waterbirth Course for Birth Professionals (Certification Course) originally planned for this day has been cancelled due to illness. Registrants have received information about taking the course later online.	Connie Mullen, LM, CPM, CCE

Time	Session	Speaker/Leader
8:00 am–9:00 am	Check in	Pamela Golliet
8:00 am-–8:15 am	Optional Prayer Time (near conference room)	Debby Sapp, Kathy Nesper
8:30 am–9:00 am	Welcome, Announcements, Devotions	MC: Connie Mullen Devotions: Debby Sapp
9:00 am–10:00 am	Keeping the Faith: Remembering God’s Presence in the Birth Room	Barbara Harper, RN
10:00 am–12:00 pm	Preventing Birth Injury—Hypoxic Ischemic Hypoxia	Rita Ledbetter, CNN
12:00 pm–1:00 pm	Lunch (included for conference registrants and paid guests)
1:00 pm–2:30 pm	Working With Survivors of Abuse, Part 1	Susan Wilson, RN, CPM
2:30 pm–3:30 pm	Rebekah’s Tea Party (conference registrants)
3:30 pm–5:00 pm	Working With Survivors of Abuse, Part 2	Susan Wilson, RN, CPM
5:00 pm–7:00 pm	Dinner on Your Own
6:30 pm–7:30 pm	Call the Midwife Open House (open to the public)
7:30 pm–9:00 pm	The Gifts of Waterbirth (open to the public)	Roundtable discussion The original speaker for this session has changed due to illness.
9:00 pm–??	Hang Out and Story Time

Time	Session	Speaker/Leader
8:00 am-–8:15 am	Optional Prayer Time (near conference room)	Debby Sapp, Kathy Nesper
8:30 am–9:00 am	Announcements, Devotions	MC: Kristin Schuchmann Devotions: Debby Sapp
9:00 am–11:00 am	Understanding Chiropractic for Prenatal, Postpartum, and Infant Care	Abbe Keen, DC, CNC Cait Davis, DC, MSCP
11:00 am–12:00 pm	Hypoactive Sexual Disorder	Rita Ledbetter, CNM
12:00 pm–1:00 pm	Lunch (included for conference registrants and paid guests)
1:00 pm–3:30 pm	Loss, Grief, and the Midwife (and other birth professionals)	Connie Mullen, LM, CPM, CCE
3:30 pm–4:30 pm	The Best Tips from 40 Years of Waterbirths	Barbara Harper, RN
5:30 pm	Gala Dinner (included for conference registrants)
7:30 pm–??	ACBP Annual Member Meeting, Fundraiser, Story Time, and FUN	Meeting MC: Pamela Golliet

Time	Session	Speaker/Leader
8:00 am-–8:15 am	Optional Prayer Time (near conference room)	Debby Sapp, Kathy Nesper
8:30 am–9:00 am	Announcements, Devotions	MC: Kathy Nesper Devotions: Debby Sapp
9:00 am–10:30 am	When We Know Better, We Do Better—Staying Up to Date in our Recommendations for Alcohol Consumption in Pregnancy	Kristin Schuchmann, CPM, LM
10:30 am–12:00 pm	When to Transport and How to Do So Safely	Susan Wilson, RN, CPM
12:00 pm–12:15 pm	Closing Session

Time	Session	Speaker/Leader
12:00 pm–1:00 pm	Lunch for post-conference participants
1:00 pm–??	Peer Review	Debby Sapp, Kristin Schuchmann
1:00 pm–4:00 pm	Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) NRP online course must be successfully completed before taking this class; bring documentation	Susan Wilson, RN, CPM

This Conference Agenda is subject to change.   It will be updated as necessary.