Birthlight Conference: Water nurture: a priority for the world.

Andrea Andrews, Swimming Instructor, Director of The Lifesaving Foundation, National Aquaphobia Trainer Assessor and licensed Miracle Swimming instructor for adults spoke on ‘Water nurture: a priority for the world’. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-andrews-a2914258 https://www.lifesavingfoundation.ie/cat/lf.html

Birthlight Conference: ‘50 Years of Becoming a Mother…’

Keynote by Professor Charlotte Faircloth (Professor of Family and Society at the UCL Social Research Institute and Project Leader of the BAM50 project, London, Trustee of Birthlight): spoke on her project ‘50 Years of Becoming a Mother…whilst becoming a mother’?  working with Ann Oakley and some more personal reflections’. This project […]

Birthlight Conference:  Birth and early life: lighting the way with joy, hope, love and health.

Lesley Page CBE, Former President of the Royal College of Midwives visiting professor of midwifery at King’s College London, Patron of Birthlight presented her reflections on ‘Birth and early life: lighting the way with joy, hope, love and health’. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleypage

Birthlight Mini Conference: Françoise’s Homage to Michel Odent

See Françoise Freedman’s tribute to Michel Odent, who passed away last August, given at the Birthlight mini conference on the 6th July 2026, Homerton College, Cambridge. Michel Odent presented at many Birthlight Conferences in the past. “So many words commonly used to describe childbirth- support, patient, management, delivered by, coached, […]

Birthlight Conference: Decolonising Maternity Care ~ Dr Amali Lokugamage

Dr Amali Lokugamage, who has presented at many Birthlight conferences, gave her talk on Declonising Maternity Care explaining the terminolgy and concepts of this movement and her research into it. Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Honorary Associate Professor, Medical Educator, Author. MBChB, BSc, MSc, FRCOG, MD, SFHEA. Honorary Associate Professor UCL EGA […]

Birthlight Conference: Françoise’s Homage to Michel Odent

See Françoise Freedman’s tribute to Michel Odent, who passed away last August, given at the Birthlight mini conference on the 6th July 2026, Homerton College, Cambridge. Michel Odent presented at many Birthlight Conferences in the past. “So many words commonly used to describe childbirth- support, patient, management, delivered by, coached, […]