3rd annual Joyful Birth & Breastfeeding Expo

    
3rd annual "Joyful Birth & Breastfeeding" Expo will be
  an all day FREE educational extravaganza at the Blue Ridge  Mall, Hendersonville, NC  (No registration necessary)
Featuring Ina May Gaskin, internationally known midwife, speaker, and author, inspiring birth films, dozens of mother-friendly  exhibitors, and speakers about healthy birth and breastfeeding. 
There will also be a maternity fashion show, a kid's activity area and lots of raffles, and giveaways.

Location: Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd, Hendersonville, NC,   (only 23 miles from Asheville off 26 E , Exit 49B, 64W 0.7 miles on left).  Blue Ridge homepage Date homepage

Date Saturday, Nov 3rd, 2012
Time: 10a-4p

 SPEAKER Agenda Pardee Education Center ,

main meeting room ( inside mall near Belk's) : FREE

10:00-11:00a  Ina May Gaskin CPM,  Birth Wisdom

11:15-11:45a Breastfeeding Success, Georganna Cogburn MS, lactation consultant

12:30-1p  Balancing Birth Options & Safety, Jan Verhaeghe CNM

1-1:45p Ina May Gaskin CPM, Birth Wisdom   

2:00:-2:30p Environmental Exposures Affecting Pregnancy,  Dr. Margaret Sullivan

2:30-3:15p Mother-Friendly Birth,  Barbara Davenport CNM, Cheryl Orengo doula

3:30-4:00p  Herbs and Postpartum Discomforts, Lisa Goldstein CNM
                             Center Court stage

11:15-11:45a Birth Dancing demo, Michelle Dionne

12-12:45p Maternity Fashion Show

FREE FILMS & Discussion  Pardee Center small room

10-10:30a "Happy Mom, Healthy Baby" Postpartum mood  adjustment film and discussion, Dr Judy McKay

10:30-11a  Mama Time discussion, Sarah Gralnick CD

11-12p  "The Big Stretch" great film about body awareness for birth advocates and pregnant women

12-1:30 p "Nacido en Agua" and  "Día de Nacimiento"  en Espagnol

1:30-2p  "Baby Oh Baby" breastfeeding film

 2:30-3:00p Better Parenting discussion, Sandy Jones MA, parenting author

3-4:15p "Business of Being Born II," special celebrity moms talk straight about birth

 KIDS ACTIVITIES   court near Hibbets Sports

11-12p Kid's Yoga, Emily VanEman

9:30a & 2:30p Kindermusik demos, Yvette Odell

2-2:30p Infant Massage, Sarah Gralnick CD

10:30a & 3:30p Asheville Area Music Together demo, Kari Richmond

Main Sponsors: Pardee Nurse-Midwifery, Pardee Hospital, Mission Hospital, DAMA, LaLeche, BirthNetwork of WNC

EXHIBITOR registration is full.