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Liquid13 AUGUST 2014Gold · MELBOURNE VIC AUSTRALIAN BREASTFEEDING ASSOCIATION GOLDEN JUBILEE NATIONAL CONFERENCE PLUS PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 31 JULY 2014

Liquid Gold celebrates the contribution to breastfeeding research, information and support in Australia and around the world over the last 50 years and provides the latest in evidence-based techniques to improve breastfeeding practice. The conference is a key event for those with an interest and passion for breastfeeding, including breastfeeding counsellors, community educators and trainees, health professionals such as midwives, consultants, child health nurses and medical and allied practitioners working with mothers and babies. www.breastfeeding.asn.au/liquidgold About ABA

The Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) celebrates its 50th birthday and golden jubilee in 2014. ABA is Australia’s largest breastfeeding information and support service, helping more than 80,000 mothers each year. We also provide up-to-date information and continuing education for thousands of health professionals working with mothers and babies. ABA is a Registered Training Organisation offering nationally-recognised courses. Through a range of services, ABA supports and encourages women who want to breastfeed or provide breastmilk for their babies, and advocates to raise community awareness of the importance of breastfeeding and human to child and maternal health.

About Liquid Gold

Liquid Gold is ABA’s golden jubilee conference and our first national conference since 2007. Liquid Gold celebrates the contribution to breastfeeding research, information and support in Australia and around the world over the last 50 years and provides the latest in evidence-based techniques to improve breastfeeding practice. Who should attend? The conference is for those working or volunteering with mothers and babies, including midwives, lactation consultants, child health nurses, medical practitioners, , allied health professionals, breastfeeding counsellors, educators and all others interested in supporting and advocating for breastfeeding Conference highlights • Training and development opportunities in breastfeeding management for all those working with mothers and babies • Presentations on the latest research and best practice • Distinguished international keynote speakers including Prof James McKenna, Dr Alison Stuebe, Amy Spangler, Emeritus Prof Peter Hartmann, Dr Wendy Brodribb and Liz Crowe • More than 40 concurrent sessions and workshops • Pre-conference workshops especially for health professionals • An exciting social program including the gala dinner and 50th birthday celebrations President’s Welcome Welcome to Liquid Gold, the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA)’s golden jubilee national conference and one of ABA’s biggest events this decade. Liquid Gold will celebrate ABA’s golden jubilee year, by bringing together all those working to support mothers and babies. There is no doubt that establishing and maintaining a successful breastfeeding relationship in whatever form a mother chooses is a team effort involving the infant, parents, extended family, health professionals, peer support and broader community. Liquid Gold is an opportunity for all those working and volunteering with mothers and babies to come together to learn about new and innovative research and management techniques, network with each other and celebrate what we have achieved in Australia over the past 50 years. Internationally respected speakers, new research, exciting strategies and best practice models will motivate and inform you. We hope you also take advantage of the extensive social program to meet and be inspired by each other. As a baby and family-friendly organisation we are also proud to include our unique family and children’s program as part of Liquid Gold. This program runs separately but concurrently with the main conference program and allows delegates to travel to conference with their families. We’re also having a pre-conference day especially for health professionals. You can choose from four workshops, all designed to provide the skills and knowledge base to assist professionals who work to support family health. These workshops can be combined with your main program registration, or attended as a standalone education day. I warmly invite you to join us in Melbourne from 31 July – 3 August this year and share in the knowledge, enthusiasm and celebration.

Rachel Fuller National President Australian Breastfeeding Association Keynote speakers

Professor James McKenna Emeritus Professor Peter Hartmann AM Professor James J. McKenna is recognised as the Professor Peter Hartmann is the founder and recently world’s leading authority on mother-infant co- retired head of the Human Lactation Research Group sleeping, in relationship to breastfeeding and SIDS. at the University of Western Australia. Professor McKenna has published over 139 refereed scientific His early research on lactation focused on dairy cattle, in articles in diverse medical and anthropological journals on co- postdoctoral and research positions in the UK, USA and Australia. sleeping, breastfeeding, evolutionary medicine and SIDS, and Professor Hartmann took up a lectureship at The University of lectures around the world. Western Australia in 1972. During his time at UWA, he founded the In the he remains one of the primary spokesperson to Human Lactation Research Group. the media on issues pertaining to sleeping arrangements, night- As well as his work at UWA, Professor Hartmann has also time breastfeeding and SIDS prevention. contributed to other universities and institutions. From 1999 to He has also published two monographs on SIDS and infant sleep, 2008 he was a Visiting Professor at the Kagawa Nutrition University and co-edited two books: Evolutionary Medicine (published by in Sakado, Japan; he was an Adjunct Professor in the Department Oxford in 1999) and Evolutionary Medicine And Health: New of Medical Imaging Science at Curtin University of Technology from Perspectives, also with Oxford University Press. 2000 to 2004; and from 2002 to 2004 he was a Clinical Professor His first book for parents was published in 2008 entitled: Sleeping in Paediatrics at the Texas Tech University in Amarillo, USA. With Your Baby: A Parents Guide To Co-sleeping, and was recently translated and available in Spanish and Dutch. Liz Crowe Liz Crowe is an Advanced Clinician Paediatric Social Amy Spangler MN RN IBCLC Worker who has worked extensively with children and Amy Spangler earned her bachelor’s degree in families impacted by grief, loss, trauma, crisis and nursing from the State University and her bereavement since 1995. Ms Crowe is currently employed as an master’s degree in maternal and child health from Advanced Clinician Social Worker at the Brisbane Mater Children’s the . She is a Registered Nurse as well as an Paediatric Intensive Care Unit and a Program Facilitator at the International Board Certified . Griffith University on Advance Care Planning. Amy has served as president of the International Lactation She is attempting a PhD on staff wellbeing in paediatrics and Consultant Association and chair of the United States Breastfeeding has just released her first book The Little Book of Loss and Grief Committee. You Can Read While You Cry. Parenting and delivering critical She is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at School information in a humorous way through stories are among her of Nursing and the author of numerous publications including great loves! She is also a Community Educator for the Australian BREASTFEEDING, A Parent’s Guide, BREASTFEEDING, Keep It Breastfeeding Association. Simple, BREASTFEEDING, Your guide to a healthy, happy baby, Guidelines for the Establishment of Exclusive Breastfeeding, and BREASTFEEDING, Ready, Set, Go! Dr Wendy Brodribb AM Amy currently serves as president of baby gooroo. She lectures Wendy Brodribb completed her medical degree extensively on a wide variety of maternal and child health topics. in 1977 and has worked in the areas of general She lives in , with her husband Dennis. They have practice and women’s health. She became interested two sons, Matthew and Adam. in lactation after the birth of her first child in 1980 and became an Australian Breastfeeding Association breastfeeding counsellor and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Dr Alison Stuebe Wendy is the President Elect at the Academy of Breastfeeding Dr Alison Stuebe is currently a board-certified Medicine and is a member of the Royal Australian College of maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist at the General Practitioners (RACGP), Australian Association for Academic University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Primary Care (AAAPC) and Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine an assistant professor of Maternal-Child Health at the Gillings (ABM). School of Global Public Health. She edited the text Breastfeeding Management in Australia and Her research focuses on modifiable risk factors for metabolic has written a number of other papers on breastfeeding topics as disease in the perinatal period, and she has published more than well as presenting at conferences and breastfeeding courses. She 50 peer-reviewed articles. She serves on the board of directors for completed a PhD looking at the breastfeeding skills and knowledge the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and edits the Breastfeeding of Australian GP registrars in 2009 and is now working in the Medicine Blog. In the clinical arena, she is the Medical Director of Discipline of General Practice at the University of Queensland as a Lactation Services for the UNC HealthCare. researcher. She works with an interdisciplinary team of faculty and staff in lactation, paediatrics, family medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, clinical and laboratory pathology, general surgery, dermatology, and maternal/child health. Her current research focuses on clinical management of breastfeeding complications and the role of in maternal health. Pre-conference workshops 8.30am – 4.30pm | Thursday 31 July | RACV Club, 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne The pre-conference workshops are all aimed at providing the practical skills and knowledge base for health professionals who work with breastfeeding dyads. The workshops can be combined with your registration to the Liquid Gold main conference or as a standalone education day. Choose from one of the four workshops: Breastfeeding Essentials for Medical Practitioners Mine, yours or theirs? Milk banking, milk sharing This workshop is designed specifically for medical practitioners and breastmilk substitutes and all presenters will be medical practitioners with extensive This workshop will explore the practicalities, pros and cons of the breastfeeding medicine experience. alternatives to feeding a baby other than with mother’s own milk. It will include breastfeeding information and issues relevant to Each option will be evaluated from both ethical and risk/benefit medical practitioners including: risks of not breastfeeding, the perspectives, and considered in relation to alternative management process of breastfeeding and normal breastfeeding management, options. The practical aspects of establishing and operating a milk how to provide breastfeeding support within a medical practice, bank in Australia will be explained, including selection of both managing maternal and infant complications, common donors and recipients. breastfeeding problems (e.g. and problems, and failure-to-thrive) and medication use while breastfeeding. On The ethics and potential impact of milk sharing between mothers completion of this workshop participants will be more confident and will be explored, including directed donation using established better able to assist breastfeeding women. guidelines, private arrangements between two mothers, and the use of milk from an unknown donor. Maximum participants: 50 Professional Development Points: 40 group 1 women’s health points The third part of the workshop will explore the issues to consider with RACGP QI&CPD pro-gram and 5.75L CERPs applied for. when counselling clients on the use of breastmilk substitutes such as infant formula and human milk fortifiers. Note: This workshop is only open to medical practitioners. Professional Development points: Applied for. Presenters: Presenters: Dr Wendy Brodribb AM, MBBS, PhD, IBCLC, FABM Dr Marnie Rowan B Pharm, MBBS (Hons), FRACGP IBCLC Dr Gillian Opie MBBS FRACP IBCLC Dr Megan Elliott-Rudder MBBS, DRANZCOG, FRACGP Dianne Haworth, BN, Grad Dip Adv Nurs, MClinMid, IBCLC Dr Anita Bearzatto MBBS(hons), FRACGP, IBCLC Ros Escott BAppSc, IBCLC, Dip Breastfeeding Management, Cert IV Dr Lisa Amir MBBS, MMed, PhD, IBCLC, FABM Breastfeeding Education (Counselling) Renee Kam, IBCLC, BPhysio, Cert IV Breastfeeding Education (Counselling) Going for Gold: An advanced skill based Anita Moorhead, RN, RM, IBCLC, Grad. Cert. Neonatal Paed. and breastfeeding management workshop Grad. Cert. Health Serv. All breastfeeding management strategies rely on accurate assessment of breastfeeding, skilled support and thorough and Counselling Skills Workshop ongoing evaluation. Decisions about interventions including extra milk, medication, nipple shields, expressing and weaning need to be This workshop will allow participants to develop and practice the based on expert advice and best evidenced based practice. counselling skills needed by health professionals working with breastfeeding mothers and their support networks. This workshop This comprehensive workshop is for participants who have a focuses on building practical skills via small group participatory good understanding of lactation and want to hone practical skills learning activities. to be able to make a real difference when helping mothers with breastfeeding. It will also include infant assessment, assessing a The workshop begins by exploring how our own experiences feed, evaluation and management of tongue ties. and values influence our decision making and how this can be addressed when working with clients. It then analyses the micro Maximum participants: 40 counselling skills and provides participants with practice at using Professional Development Points: Applied for. these skills to improve breastfeeding outcomes. Presenters: Strategies on how to manage challenging situations are also Dale Nigro, RN, IBCLC, Dip Breastfeeding Management, Cert IV TAE, developed and practiced before review and discussion of the ABA Counsellor, BFHI assessor & Educator importance of ethical practice, self-care, debriefing and referral Louise Duursma RN, Post Grad Dip Nursing, IBCLC, ABA Counsellor, processes. BFHI assessor & Educator Maximum participants: 25 Professional Development points: Applied for.

NB: This Counselling Skills Presenters: Workshop is a newly revised Janette Timmermans Cert IV in Breastfeeding Education workshop. Workshop content and structure will vary from previous (Counselling and Community), IBCLC, Cert IV TAE counselling skills workshops Janet Sullivan Cert IV in Breastfeeding Education (Counselling offered by ABA. and Community), Cert IV TAE, Diploma TAA, Dip of Breastfeeding Management Friday 1 August MELBOURNE CONVENTION CENTRE

8.00 am Registration and information desk open 9.00 am Welcome ABA President Rachel Fuller 9.20 am Welcome to Country 9.30 am Importance of breastfeeding to both the mother and her infant Peter Hartmann 10.15 am BFHI – its effect beyond the hospital door Wendy Brodribb 11.00 am Morning tea 11.30 am Concurrent Session 1 (choice of): 1A Breastfeeding, brain development, IQ and educational attainment S Tawia Making a commodity out of breastfeeding H John 1B Infant sleep and settling Part 1 (you must also do Part 2) J Sullivan 1C Infant and young child feeding in emergencies K Gribble 1D The impact of posters to create discussion A Forbes Who owns breastfeeding V Thorley Trading human milk: an incentive to breastfeed? L Salmon 1E Breastfeeding and work – supporting the breastfeeding employee ABA BFE Consultant 1F When mothers and babies are separated R Escott Spatial variations in breastfeeding patterns in Australia J Smith The Baby Friendly Health Initiative in Australia: Early influences on uptake and development M Atchan 1G The Delphi Study of pharmacology experts to derive international recommendations for medicine use in lactation L Amir Use of medicines by breastfeeding women a descriptive analysis M Saha Liquid Gold: Expressed as a product Victoria Team 1H Culturally-appropriate breastfeeding support and counselling Part 1 (you must also do Part 2) M Carter & L Hughes 1I – a personal and political memoir P Bueskens Breastfeeding and the law – how legislation can increase breastfeeding rates R McDonald Who are Breastfeeding Information and Research (BIR) and what do they do? E McGuire 1J Is Facebook the new forum? A netnographic analysis of how breastfeeding mothers find support online N Bridges Breastfeeding Helpline and Google Glass – innovation in supporting mothers to breastfeed N Haines & D Yates Breastfeeding friendly locations a mobile option K Welsh 1K Teaching without preaching A Spangler 1.00 pm Lunch 2.00 pm Cost of sub-optimal breastfeeding A Stuebe 3.00 pm ABA Presentation 3.30pm Afternoon tea 4.00 pm Google Glass 4.30 pm Mother-infant co-sleeping with breastfeeding as adaptation not pathology J McKenna 5.30 pm Finish 6.00 pm Movie Screening - The Milky Way Movie: Nursing a Galactic Revolution

Abstracts are available for viewing at www.breastfeeding.asn.au/liquidgold/program Saturday 2 August MELBOURNE CONVENTION CENTRE

7.00 am Breakfast Panel Discussion: How do we talk about breastfeeding? - Alison Stuebe/Karleen Gribble/Nicole Bridges/Amy Spangler 8.30 am Understanding every day loss and grief Liz Crowe 9.30 am Where do, and where should, our infants sleep? James McKenna OR Sponsorship: A slippery slope? Amy Spangler 10.30 am Morning tea 11.00 am Concurrent Session 2 (choice of): 2A Introduction to research design Part 1 (you must also do Part 2) L Amir 2B Infant sleep and settling Part 2 (you must also do Part 1) J Sullivan 2C Assisting large breasted women J Timmermans (numbers limited to 20) 2D Breastfeeding Helpline – who is calling and why, 5 years of data N Haines & D Yates Predictors of breastfeeding success: How a mother’s intention for infant feeding and sleep arrangements affect breastfeeding outcomes C Bailey Peer supporter training for breastfeeding: What is it and how does it happen? An international study K Mortensen 2E Towards objective measurement of human lactation Peter Hartmann 2F Provide breastfeeding support within a legal and ethical framework Part 1 (you must also do Part 2) S Day & R Fuller 2G Understanding lactose intolerance in breastfed babies J Anderson Australian infant formula advertising on the internet: Information or promotion? N Berry 2H Culturally-appropriate breastfeeding support and counselling Part 2 (you must also do Part 1) M Carter & L Hughes 2I Discrimination against breastfeeding mothers in childcare J Smith An exploration of barriers and enablers in early childhood settings to meet Australian Infant Feeding Guidelines J Mcguire ABA Research: The EMBER project S Tawia 2J Caring for the whole mother-baby dyad: Breastfeeding, primary care and maternal mental health A Stuebe 2K What do Cochrane reviews tell us about supporting breastfeeding? W Brodribb 12.30 pm Lunch 1.30 pm Epigenetics Peter Williamson 2.30 pm ABA Presentation 3.00 pm Afternoon tea 3.30 pm Concurrent Session 3 (choice of): 3A Introduction to research design Part 2 (you must also do Part 1) L Amir 3B Supporting mothers to manage life changes associated with breastfeeding L Forde & L Liber 3C Supporting Breastfeeding in Local Communities (SILC): A cluster randomised controlled trial H McLachlan & M Cullinane The MILC study- exploring the prevalence and outcomes with breast milk expressing H Johns 3D When exclusive breastfeeding doesn’t work - helping mothers with mixed feeding C Dobrich Failing bodies, shared bodies, insufficiency and the sharing of breastmilk A Smith Why women are choosing to donate their milk L Monahan 3E Adverse food reactions in the breastfed infant J Anderson Sensory integration & breastfeeding: It is so much more than food I Francisco 3F Provide breastfeeding support within a legal and ethical framework Part 2 (you must also do Part 1) S Day & R Fuller 3G Tongue tie assessment and classification and the post frenotomy feed D Nigro 3H Challenges of working with diverse clients in a maternal and early child health service K Cross & H Sieker Cross cultural breastfeeding support – reducing inequity T Jawor Providing breastfeeding information to CALD groups via the internet: ACTNSW Branch project E Hickey & K Stock 3I Collaborative motivational support improves exclusive breastfeeding in a cluster randomized controlled trial M Elliott-Rudder Community BFHI – working towards implementing the 7 point plan in Western Sydney T Doyle & N Horswell Clinical assessment of breastfeeding and lactation: A tool to promote, protect and support breastfeeding and inform consistency in child health nurse practice C McCauley 3J Iron and Exclusive breastfeeding S Tawia ABA: A fresh, new approach to educating mothers M Carmody Who pays for the health benefits of exclusive breastfeeding? J Smith 5.00 pm Finish 6.30 pm Gala dinner and ABA 50th birthday party

Abstracts are available for viewing at www.breastfeeding.asn.au/liquidgold/program Sunday 3 August MELBOURNE CONVENTION CENTRE

8.30 am I wanted a better alternative’ Karleen Gribble ‘It’s not poison’ Nina Berry & Karleen Gribble OR Experience-based versus evidence-based care for breastfeeding mothers Peter Hartmann Breastfeeding and general practice: Perceptions of mothers and GPs Wendy Brodribb 10.30 am Morning tea 11.00 am Concurrent Session 4 (choice of): 4A Infant Massage Workshop R Nandan 4B Public Relations: Advocating for breastfeeding and promoting ABA N Bridges 4C Breastfeeding Education Classes: Improving practice L Matthews 4D Nipple pain in the first 8 weeks: The CASTLE study M Buck Hip dysplasia and breastfeeding P Mercer Workplace support, breastfeeding and health J Smith 4E *This session is for ABA volunteers only* Navigating the ABA website – my professional development plan H Miller Behind the scenes at ABA publications J Gifford 4F Isn’t all research good research? S Tawia ABA streaming to the community H Endacott Connecting mums to breastfeeding support through social media J Davey & A Nunun ANU Gender Institute study of best practice breastfeeding support in the workplace J McGuire 4G Breastfeeding challenges during spinal surgery and recovery L Connell Cases from the Breastfeeding Information and Research files E McGuire Case Study: Breastfeeding Charlie – it took a village Y O’Dowd Lesbian couples and breastfeeding C Dobrich 4H Comparison of different models of peer support for mothers in the post natal period J Timmermans Tongue tied babies, their mothers and the ABA Counsellor J Beeston Building local breastfeeding partnership: ABA and the National Health Co-op L Salmon 4I Wynyard ABA – A case study of a group C Fielding Reviving a group – Bathurst NSW M Still Breastfeeding in the Orange community: Growing public awareness V Williams Targeting every tummy in the community A Aarons 4J *This session is for ABA volunteers only* Breastfeeding and work rights, responsibilities and getting the job done ABA BFE Consultant Grant writing is there any money out there D Walsh 4K *This session is for ABA volunteers only* Building a great mentoring relationship C Uhe & K Miller ABA Online: Understanding the ABA website R Hamilton 4L Reducing sleep-related infant deaths J McKenna 12.30 pm Lunch 1.30 pm Building a breastfeeding culture Alison Stuebe 2.30 pm Breastfeeding: Keep it simple Amy Spangler 3.30 pm Afternoon tea This is an ABA 4.00 pm Self-Nurturing for women in the age of busyness Liz Crowe member-only day. 5.00 pm ABA – celebrating 50 years You must be an ABA 5.30 pm Finish professional or personal member to attend.

Abstracts are available for viewing at www.breastfeeding.asn.au/liquidgold/program Social events & children’s program

Welcome Reception Thursday 31 July 2014 7:00 - 9:00pm Cargo Hall, South Wharf Promenade Cost: Adults $25.00, children (3 - 12 years) $15.00 Please join us for a celebratory drink to kick start the conference. Catch up with old friends and meet new ones from our industry. The cost includes a drink on arrival followed by assorted savoury canapés. Drinks will be available on a cash basis for the duration of the night so please come prepared. Tickets for the Welcome Reception will be available up until 5.00pm Conference Gala Dinner and 50th Birthday on Tuesday 15 July 2014. Please ensure that you book your ticket prior to this date in order to avoid disappointment. Celebration Saturday 2 August 2014 6:30 - 11:00pm Movie Night Plenary 2, Melbourne Convention Centre Cost: $160.00 per person (babes in arms 0-12 months free) Join us for a screening of The Milky Way Movie: Nursing a Galactic Revolution Please join us at the official birthday party and help celebrate 50 fabulous years! The Liquid Gold Gala Dinner will definitely be a Friday 1 August highlight of the conference, so dust off your glad rags and your 6:00pm (90 minute film) dancing shoes and join in the fun and excitement. The ticket price Melbourne Convention Centre includes pre-dinner drinks, a gourmet three course meal, unlimited Cost: Adults $12.00 (children under 12 years free) drinks, coffee, tea and chocolates plus plenty of entertainment.

Please note that the gala dinner is open to conference delegates The Milky Way Movie is a documentary expose about breastfeeding and their guest only. Tickets are limited so make sure you book in the United States. It shows how women can reclaim their early to secure your place at this once in a lifetime event! birthright and restore the nursing mother archetype. More than a film, this is a film by, for, and about women. It is about the knowledge that inherently resides in every woman, how to access that knowledge and how to trust what we Children and Families Program already know. It is a film that inspires women to say, ‘I can do that!’ Children and families are very welcome at Liquid Gold and a ‘I want to do that!’ separate, concurrent program is being run for them.

The children and families program promises to be fun for all Breakfast Panel Discussion involved. There will be a huge variety of activities on offer, including Saturday 2 August 2014 singing and dancing, puppetry, arts and crafts, children’s yoga and 7:00am stories. Plenary 2, Melbourne Convention Centre Add to this the opportunity to join in excursions to the Melbourne Cost: Adults $40.00, children $10.00 (1-12 years, under 12 months Museum and Melbourne Aquarium and your children are going to free) demand you book them in. Come one, come all, the children and families program is not one to be missed. Please join us for a delicious breakfast on Saturday morning and a lively panel discussion on ‘How do we talk about breastfeeding?’ Breastfeeding seems to be a polarising issue both in mainstream and social media; how do we give evidence-based information about infant feeding allowing informed choice without creating a ‘mummy wars’ of the breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding mum? Our panel will present their views and we will be interested in yours. The panel includes Dr Alison Stuebe, Amy Spangler, Dr Karleen Gribble and Nicole Bridges and our facilitator will be Eve John. This is certainly an event not to be missed!

General information Location and Venue Trade displays and exhibition The venue for Liquid Gold is the stunning Melbourne Convention The trade exhibition will be held in the foyer of the Melbourne Centre. The centre is conveniently located in the heart of South Convention Centre, directly outside the plenary rooms and where Wharf on the southern bank of the Yarra River only a short walk morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea are served. A wide range of from Melbourne’s CBD. products and services will be on display from our corporate and community partners and ABA groups and programs. The central location of the Melbourne Convention Centre within South Wharf makes it easily accessible via car, bus, train and tram Make sure you visit ABA’s Mothers Direct super store for and places the venue alongside fantastic accommodation, dining your professional resources, parenting and children’s books, and retail offerings including; Hilton South Wharf Hotel, South Wharf breastfeeding aids, gifts and baby needs. Promenade and DFO South Wharf. ABA welcomes trade exhibits and sponsorship of Liquid Gold from The venue for the pre-conference workshops is the RACV Club, 501 WHO Code compliant companies and community organisations. The Bourke Street in the heart of Melbourne city. The venue is easily partnership and exhibition prospectus is available at reached by tram or train (alight at Southern Cross station) and car www.breastfeeding.asn.au/liquidgold/sponsors or by emailing ABA’s parking is available on-site. Marketing Manager on [email protected] The venue for the welcome reception is The Cargo Hall, South Wharf Promenade on the Yarra River next to the Melbourne Convention Centre. Travel and Accommodation Melbourne is Victoria’s capital city and the business, cultural and recreational hub of the state. Whether it’s relaxing, dining, people Melbourne has two airports and extensive national and regional train watching or shopping, Melbourne seems to have it all in a colourful and bus links. It is well serviced by public transport within the city. and artistic heritage environment so why not make the most of your Melbourne’s public transport system uses the myki card ticketing trip to Melbourne and turn it into a holiday. system. You must have a valid myki card to travel. Visitors can buy a full Melbourne visitor information is available at fare or concession myki Visitor Pack from the Melbourne Visitor Centre at Federation Square or from the PTV Hub at Southern Cross Station www.visitmelbourne.com near the corner of Spencer and Collins streets or ask your hotel. www.thatsmelbourne.com.au Discounted accommodation options close to the Melbourne Convention Centre are offered when registering online for Liquid Gold. Poster Presentations Various accommodation options are also available through the Poster presentations will be on display throughout the conference. Melbourne Convention Centre website. For a full list of poster see the conference website www.mcec.com.au/visiting-melbourne/accommodation www.breastfeeding.asn.au/liquidgold Best of Victoria, situated in the Melbourne Visitor Centre, have a Professional Development Points free accommodation booking service and can also provide you with CERPs, MidPLUS and RACGP points have been applied for. If you information on attractions and activities within Victoria. require points please indicate this when registering. www.bestof.com.au/vic Are you an Registration Information ABA Member yet? EARLY BIRD REGISTRATIONS CLOSE 15 JUNE 2014. ALL REGISTRATIONS CLOSE 27 JULY 2014

How to register Registration Fees Registrations are accepted online only at Become an ABA personal or professional member and save on your www.breastfeeding.asn.au/liquidgold/registration registration fees. Details on our membership packages are available You do not need a credit card to register online. Payment can be at www.breastfeeding.asn.au/membership made by cheque, direct deposit, Visa or Mastercard. Invoices can be provided prior to payment. Early bird Standard

Registration Terms and Conditions To 15 June From 16 June ABA Non- Non- ABA member Registrations for Liquid Gold are being handled by our service Member member member provider, Info Salons. The following policies will be strictly adhered One day $250 $290 $270 $310 to and apply to every Liquid Gold registration: Two days $470 $520 $510 $570 Three days $550 N/A $600 N/A Payment Pre-conference • Payment will be accepted via credit card, direct debit or Workshop - Breastfeeding cheque. N/A N/A $285 $315 Essentials for • Payments being made via direct debit or cheque must be paid in full within 14 days from date of invoice or 14 days prior to Medical the conference (whichever is sooner). Failure to do so will Practitioners jeopardise your registration. All other Pre-conference N/A N/A $235 $265 • Group payments will be accepted. Please ensure that that the workshops applicable registrant’s details (invoice #) are provided in writing Adult $25 Adult $25 at the time of payment. Welcome N/A N/A Child $15 Child $15 • Split payments will be accepted for single or multiple Reception (3-12 years, (3-12 years, registrants. Please ensure that the applicable registrant’s under 3 free) under 3 free) details (invoice #) along with an email note explaining the split Adult $40 Adult $40 payment are provided in writing at the time of initial payment. Breakfast Child $10 Child $10 Panel N/A N/A (1-12 years, (1-12 years, All split payments must be made after the registration process • Discussion under 12 under 12 is complete (even if paying partially via credit card), please months free) months free) select either the direct debit or cheque payment option when Gala Dinner payment details are requested. If you choose to pay a portion Please note: The gala $160 per $160 per via credit card then you will need to call Info Salons on dinner is open to person person 02 9212 1452 and make a manual payment. conference delegates N/A N/A (Babes in (Babes in and their guest only. arms arms • Please submit any payment comments/explanations in writing Tickets are limited so 0-12 months 0-12 months to [email protected] please book early to free) free) avoid disappointment. Children’s Cancellations and Transfers Program $40 per $40 per child, per child, per • Australian Breastfeeding Association must be notified in writing Please note: The children’s program N/A N/A day* day* for any registration cancellations or transfers. is self-catering. The (Babies 0-12 (Babies 0-12 • Cancellations must be received prior to 18 July 2014 program fee includes months free) months free) activities only. and will receive a full refund less $100.00 administration *All children in the children’s program require an fee. Cancellations received after this date will not be refunded. accompanying adult at all times. Accompanying adults are • Requests for transfers will be accepted prior to 18 July 2014. free if self-catering. Conference catering for accompanying The substitution will be subject to a $50.00 administration fee adults can be provided at a fee of $75 per person per day. as well as any additional registration costs. • Refunds will not be granted if the registrant fails to attend the conference. Register now at • Please submit any requests for registration cancellations or www.breastfeedng.asn.au/liquidgold transfers in writing to [email protected] AUSTRALIAN BREASTFEEDING ASSOCIATION GOLDEN JUBILEE NATIONAL CONFERENCE PLUS PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 31 JULY 2014

Conference Coordinator / General Enquiries Kylie Minett [email protected]

Registration Enquiries [email protected] or call the Australian Breastfeeding Association Head Office on 03 9885 0855 9.00am - 5.00pm EST Monday - Friday.

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