Drinking for two? Alcohol and Pregnancy

Alcohol Concern Cymru’s 2015 conference

Drinking for two? Alcohol and pregnancy

21 September 2015

Radisson Blu Hotel

Bute Terrace, central Cardiff

Time

Speaker and session title

9.15-9.30

Registration

9.30-9.35

Welcome

Andrew Misell, Alcohol Concern’s Director for Wales

9.35-9.45

Keynote speech: Alcohol and pregnancy – what’s the harm?

Jenny Rathbone, Assembly Member for Cardiff Central

9.45-10.15

Policing pregnancy? Telling mothers what to do

Dr Ellie Lee, Director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, Kent University; Dr Pam Lowe, Aston University

10.15-10.45

Perceptions of advice provided to parents in antenatal care settings

Lisa Schölin, Liverpool John Moores University

10.45-11.00

Break

11.00-11.30

Interventions to reduce alcohol consumption in pregnancy

Dr Therese Dowswell, Liverpool University and Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group

11.30-12.00

Assessing drinking during pregnancy: attitudes and evidence

Dr Lesley Smith, Oxford Brookes University

12.00-12.45

Lunch and networking – with an opportunity to take our part in our opinion poll on current images and messages about drinking and pregnancy

12.45-13.00

The science of alcohol and pregnancy – what’s the evidence?

Dr Ruth Hussey OBE, Chief Medical Officer for Wales

Parallel sessions – repeated 3 times each, so that attendees can take part in 3 of the 4 sessions

13.00-14.00

‘No alcohol, no risk’ – evaluating a local campaign

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and Public Health Wales

Communicating and contextualising public health messages: what forms of information do new and expectant parents find helpful and respectful?

Heather Trickey, Cardiff University; Sarah McMullen, National Childbirth Trust (NCT)

Engaging with mothers with an established drink problem

Robert Llewellyn and Ann Saunders, Singleton Hospital, Swansea

That awkward conversation – talking with mothers about drinking

Royal College of Midwives

14.00-15:00

Parallel sessions repeated

15.00-15.20

Break with mocktails – and your final opportunity to take our part in our opinion poll on current images and messages about drinking and pregnancy

15.20-16.20

Parallel sessions repeated and conference close