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Jan Mallak, 2LAS, ICCE-ICD-ICPD-IAT, CD-PCD(DONA), CD(CAPPA)has over 30 years of experience in the birthing field. Jan is a certified birth doula through both ICEA and DONA and isan ICEA ICEA trainer and cert PP doula and a DONA approved birth doula trainer. She is also a certified pp doula through DONA and CAPPA.

Jan is the founder and coordinator of “Heart & Hands” Doula Service which has been providing support to Pittsburgh area women since 1995.

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ANNOUNCING: 12th Annual Family Centered Maternity Care Conference
A Day with Tonya Brooks, Birth Innovator

Saturday March 24, 2012 download conference brochure
NEW LOCATION: Doubletree 101 Mall Blvd. Monroeville, PA 15146

Sole Presenter – Midwife Tonya Brooks From The Natural Birth and Women’s Center in Southern California. Tonya Brooks is the founder of the Association for Childbirth at Home International from which many of the groups sprung that became the backbone of the homebirth movement. ACHI preceded the “Farm” by about 6 years, for example. Tonya has been in clinical practice for 35 years during which she has “caught” more than 5000 babies. Most of her research has been dedicated to making good outcomes for every mother. Her entire career has been devoted to: preventing brain injuries, managing obstetric hemorrhage and controlling gestational diabetes. Her latest research is on unnecessary medical inductions. In studying these things that often give rise to insensitive medical care and unhappy births, Tonya has developed a real fusion of alternative solutions and mainstream obstetrics. This has given midwives, doulas and childbirth educators a clearer path to help women. Tonya wrote 2 books – Giving Birth at Home and The Parent’s Guide to Perinatology and is currently working on a postpartum depression publication. Tonya is the director of the Natural Birth and Women’s Center in Sherman Oaks, CA., is married to Dr. Robert Brooks and they have 7 children – 5 of whom were born at home.

Days Agenda

8:30 – 9:00
Check in and Welcome


9:00 – 10:30
The Rightness & Might of Empowering Women with Choice/ What We’ve Learned from the Homebirth Movement

10:30 – 10:45
Break

10:45 – 12:15
Today’s Obstetrics: The Legacy of Indiscriminate Induced & Augmented Labors


12:15 – 1:15
Lunch & Door Prizes


1:15 – 3:15
Complications in “Normal Labors”: A New Look at What to Do About Them

3:15 – 3:30
Break


3:30 – 4:30
Successful VBACs/Improving Chances


4:30 – 5:00
Evaluation/Certificate of Attendance + Book Signing

Objectives

1. Describe what has been learned from the homebirth movement and why choice is so important for birthing families.


2. List when induction or augmentation is necessary or unnecessary.


3. Discuss new ways of looking at complications in normal labors.

4. Identify methods of improving chances of successful VBACs.

Contact Hours

ICEA has approved this program for 6 contact hours. Lamaze, DONA, CAPPA and other organizations also accept these contact hours towards re-certification. (360 total minutes)

Lunch will be provided as well as free parking and door prizes. The facility is also handicap available and bus routes include the Monroeville Mall. Babies in arms are always welcome.

Doula’s Guide to Birthing Your Way by Jan S. Mallak + Teresa F. Bailey, published by Hale Publishing, will be available at the conference. Get your signed copy!