Baby Friendly Initiative Conferences
Our conferences bring health professionals together to network and hear innovative and challenging presentations on infant feeding and relationship building.
Learn more about the conferences hosted by the Baby Friendly Initiative and watch a selection of talks from prior years linked below.
Annual Conference
The Baby Friendly Annual Conference is aimed at health professionals and all those involved in the care of mothers and babies. The event is organised and promoted by the Baby Friendly Initiative and attracts more than 950 delegates, making it Europe’s largest conference on infant feeding. The following talks provide a preview of what to expect at the event:
- Working within the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (Dr Helen Crawley, 2015)
- Review of conference: highlight reel (2015)
- Epigenetics and breastfeeding – The potential long term impact of breastmilk (Laurel Wilson, 2014)
Booking for the 2021 Annual Conference (Virtual) taking place on 24th November is now open. Learn more and book now here.
Neonatal Conference
Baby Friendly’s Neonatal Conferences feature a series of internationally recognised speakers and bring together delegates from the UK and the rest of the world in order to learn about the latest research and practice innovations in relation to the Baby Friendly Initiative standards for neonatal units. Listen to the following talks to get an idea of what to expect at the event:
- Welcome and overview (Sue Ashmore, 2021)
- Delivery room cuddles for extremely preterm babies and parents (Professor Paul Clarke, 2021)
- Improving survival and outcomes for preterm infants through optimising early maternal breastmilk – a national QI toolkit from BAPM (Dr Sarah Bates, 2021)
- The power of vulnerability (Karen Read and Louise Rattenbury, 2017)
- It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it – Inga Warren Neonatal Conference talk (Inga Warren, 2017)
