Baby Friendly Initiative Conference 2010 

Booking is now open for this year's conference, taking place in Harrogate on 8 & 9 December 2010. You can book your place by downloading the booking form here.

The cost for both days is £195 (discount £180); single day £110 (discount £105). The discount applies if booking five or more places or if booking before 31 July 2010.

Speakers so far confirmed and provisional titles:

Lars Å Hanson MD, PhD, FRCP (Hon) - 'The perfect ecologic unit: newborn + mother's bacteria and milk'

Prof Helen L Ball, BSc, MA, PhD - 'Nurturing as nature intended: An evolutionary perspective on lactation and breastfeeding'

Liz Jones and Carmel Duffy, Baby Friendly Initiative - 'Training neonatal nurses'

Dr Niamh McCabe MRCOG, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Lagan Valley Hospital - 'Empowering women towards normal birth'

Anne Woods, Baby Friendly Initiative - 'Review of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative'

Jim Paterson, Baby Friendly Initiative - 'The internet and infant feeding: Messages, myths and Mumsnet'

Dr Sam Oddie, Consultant Neonatologist, Bradford Royal Infirmary - 'Hypernatraemic Dehydration - Links with Breastfeeding'