Nutrition and Nurture in Infancy and Childhood:
Bio-Cultural Perspectives
The venue for registration, Keynote presentations, refreshments and lunches is Lugnetkyrkan (the black building
on campus area, behind the big University building). The venue for concurrent sessions and poster sessions is
within the main University building. The distance between the two venues is 2 minutes walking.
Day 1. Tuesday 23rd of August 2016
08.00 – 09.00
Conference registration and refreshments (coffee and sandwich) at Lugnetkyrkan
09.00 – 10.00
Welcome by Conference Convenor: Associate Professor Renée Flacking, RICH, Dalarna University
Opening address: Professor Marie Klingberg-Allvin, Pro Vice Chancellor, Dalarna University
10.00 – 11.00
Professor Lars Wallin: Facilitating implementation of evidence-based practice to improve health
and survival in newborn infants
11.00 – 11.30
Refreshments (fruit)
11.30 – 12.30
Professor Kajsa Brimdyr: Implementing practice change immediately after birth – an ethnographic
approach
12.30 – 13.50
Lunch
13.50 – 14.50
Dr Gill Thomson: Shame if you do, shame if you don’t: women’s experiences of infant feeding.
14.50-15.20
Refreshments (coffee and biscuit)
15.30 – 16.30
Concurrent Session 1
Room 1 (Sal 1) Chair Mats Eriksson
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Breastfeeding of preterm infants - Associated factors in infants, mothers and clinical practice.
Maastrup R. (Denmark)
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The effectiveness of proactive telephone support provided to breastfeeding mothers of preterm
infants: a randomized controlled trial. Ericson J, Hellström-Westas L, Eriksson M, Hoddinott P,
Flacking R. (Sweden)
Room 2 (Sal 2) Chair Camilla Udo
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Design of a peer and professional model of early breastfeeding support: an appreciative inquiry
approach. Burns E, Triandafilidis Z, Schmied V. (Australia)
Room 3 (Sal 3) Chair Eva Randell
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‘Bottled Up’: the emotional and practical experiences of formula feeding mothers. Fallon V,
Komninou S, Bennett KM, Kalford J, Harrold JA. (UK)
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Identity and social stigmas in motherhood: a strategy to include social justice in Maternal Child
Health curriculum. Blair A. (USA)
Room 4 (Sal 4) Chair Kerstin Erlandsson
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Healthy Start: do low-income pregnant women use food vouchers to improve their diets or to save
money? Ohly H, Dykes F, Lowe N, Crossland N, Hall Moran V. (UK)
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‘Sharing the energy’- how peer support can ‘normalise’ breastfeeding in a multi-cultural London
Borough. Spiro A. (UK)
16.30 – 17.30
17.30
Interactive Poster Session
Wine reception at the Library with music, performance and the film “Happy Birth Day”
Day 2. Wednesday 24th of August 2016
08.00 – 08.30
Conference registration and refreshments (coffee and sandwich) at Lugnetkyrkan
08.30 – 08.45
Welcome by the Chair: Professor Fiona Dykes
08.45 – 09.45
Fatumo Osman: Parenthood in transition – challenges and opportunities encountered in the host
country
09.45 – 10.20
Refreshments (fruit)
10.30 – 11.30
Concurrent Session 2
Room 1 (Sal 1) Chair Liisa Lehtonen
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Breast milk bank in a Swedish neonatal unit - work flow, logistics, equipment, architecture etc
Ericson J. (Sweden) This is not a research presentation but a presentation on “how we do it”.
Room 2 (Sal 2) Chair Mats Eriksson
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Breastfeeding preterm infants – the efficacy of an internet-based peer-support group
Niela-Vilén H, Axelin A, Melander H-L, Löyttyniemi E, Salanterä S. (Finland)
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The faces of breastfeeding support: experiences of mothers seeking breastfeeding support online
Bridges N. (Australia)
Room 3 (Sal 3) Chair Eva Randell
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‘Paddling up-stream’: perspectives of expectant mothers and fathers on fathers’ involvement
during pregnancy. Widarsson M. (Sweden)
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Mothers’ experiences and perceptions of a continuous caring model with fathers after
caesarean section: a qualitative study in Chile. Ayala A, Christensson K, Velandia M, Erlandsson K.
(Sweden)
Room 4 (Sal 4) Chair Ulrica Byrskog
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Migrant parents: political, socio-economic and cultural influences on breastfeeding and weaning in
the UK. Condon L, McLean S. (UK)
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Understanding and integrating social determinants into breastfeeding-related guidelines: a
country comparison of Germany, the UK and Ghana. Waldherr R. (Germany)
11.40 – 12.40
Concurrent Session 3
Room 1 (Sal 1) Chair Janeth Leksell
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Frenotomy and the associated effect on breastfeeding variables in newborn infants with
ankyloglossia (tongue-tie). Muldoon K, Gallagher L, Mc Guinness D, Smith V. (Ireland)
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‘From nipples to powder’: examining anthropometric characteristics as determinants of infant
feeding patterns. Vanderlinden K, Dekeyser L, Van Rossem R, Van de Putte B. (Belgium)
Room 2 (Sal 2) Chair Eva Randell
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‘Give him a bottle or more solids, it will help him sleep’: disproving the myth that infant feeding
choices affect infant sleep past early infancy. Brown A. (UK)
Room 3 (Sal 3) Chair Mari-Cristin Malm
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Birth consequences: The impact of epidurals. Cadwell K, Brimdyr K. (USA)
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Birth consequences: The impact of synthetic oxytocin. Cadwell K, Brimdyr K. (USA)
12.40 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 15.00
Professor Viveca Östberg: Parental socio-economic position, social relations and health complaints
in children and youth
15.00 – 15.30
Refreshments (coffee and biscuit)
15.30 – 16.30
Interactive Poster Session
16.30 – 17.30
Concurrent Session 4
Room 1 (Sal 1) Chair Fatumo Osman
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Evaluation of the Small Wonders Change Programme. Thomson G, Crossland N, Dykes F, Yoxall W,
Niccol C, Watts T, Woods E, Wallace L, Grunfeld B, Whiteman B, Baum A. (UK)
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Tackling childhood obesity: designing, evaluating and implementing a complex infant feeding
intervention in primary care. Kearney P, Byrne M, Hayes C, Heary C, Harrington J, Doherty E,
Hennessy M. (Ireland)
Room 2 (Sal 2) Chair Janeth Leksell
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Mothers’ experiences of feeding infants with Down Syndrome. A qualitative study. Cartwright A.
(UK).
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Improving breastfeeding services for neonates with Congenital Heart Defects using the
Experience-Based Co-Design approach. de Oliveira Araújo R. (UK)
Room 3 (Sal 3) Chair Kerstin Erlandsson
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Mothers’ and healthcare professionals’ experiences of infant feeding policy, within the current
context and culture of healthcare policy in England. Smith J, Jomeen J, Hayter M, Whitfield C. (UK)
Room 4 (Sal 4) Chair Liisa Lehtonen
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Stakeholder attitudes and acceptability on donating and receiving donated human breast milk.
Oosthuizen C, Lubbe W, Dolman R, Covic N. (South Africa)
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Thinking about breastmilk donation. What are the current issues in unregulated practices of
breastmilk donation in the UK? Dowling S. (UK)
19.00
Conference dinner at the Scandic Hotel
Day 3. Thursday 25th of August 2016
08.00 – 08.30
Conference registration and refreshments (coffee and sandwich) at Lugnetkyrkan
08.30 – 08.45
Welcome by the Chair: Associate Professor Anna Axelin
08.45 – 09.45
Silke Mader: Improving the empowerment of parents - what do parents need to take over care?
09.45 – 10.20
Refreshments (fruit)
10.30 – 11.30
Concurrent Session 5
Room 1 (Sal 1) Chair Jenny Ericson
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Transition to oral feeding for infants on UK neonatal units in 2015: views, policies, and practices.
Johnson E. (UK)
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Repairing prematurity – how parenting practices are influenced by late and moderate prematurity.
Haslund H. (Denmark)
Room 2 (Sal 2) Chair Linda Vixner
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Breastfeeding and Mothering: Some Causes and Some Consequences. Jonas W, Atkinson L,
Bisceglia R, Webb Girard A, Kennedy JL, Meaney MJ, Mileva-Seitz V, Steiner M, Sokolowski M,
Wazana A, Fleming A, MAVAN research team. (Sweden, Canada, USA, Netherlands)
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Association between parental depressive symptoms and impaired bonding with the infant
Kerstis B, Aarts C, Tillman C, Persson H, Engström G, Edlund B, Öhrvik J. (Sweden)
Room 3 (Sal 3) Chair Junia Joffer
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Factors which enable women to continue breastfeeding for six months: an international
comparison between Ireland, Australia and Sweden. Gallagher L, Hauck Y, Hildingsson I, Blixt I,
Rubertsson C. (Ireland, Australia Sweden)
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How do Lactation Consultants support women to breastfeed in Australia? Hocking J, Liamputtong
P. (Australia).
Room 4 (Sal 4) Christina Pedersen
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Distinguishing between feeding human milk at the breast and from a bottle: Comparison of new
human milk-feeding surveillance questions to current U.S. surveillance questions. O’Sullivan EJ,
Geraghty SR, Rasmussen KM. (USA)
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More than just food – epigenetics and breast milk. Cadwell K, Turner-Maffei C. (USA)
11.40 – 12.40
Concurrent Session 6
Room 1 (Sal 1) Chair Jenny Ericson
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The Parenting Premmies Support Program: designing, developing and piloting a mobile health
support program for mothers of preterm infants as they transition home with their infant. George
K, Rowe J, Barnes M, Kearney L. (Australia)
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Massage for promoting growth and development of preterm and/or low birth-weight infants: an
update of a Cochrane Systematic Review. Cameron J, McSwiggan L, McFadden A, Gavine A,
McGillivray S. (UK)
Room 2 (Sal 2) Chair Linda Vixner
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Adolescents’ breastfeeding intentions in five countries: the influence of attitudes, social norms and
shared-parenting beliefs. Swanson V, Hannula L, Strutton J. UK, Finland, (USA)
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Eating behaviour in the postpartum: a period of ‘tug of war’. Factors affecting appetite, food choice
and energy intake in breastfeeding women. Finch GM, Rogers PJ, Brunstrom JM, Ferriday D. (UK)
Room 3 (Sal 3) Chair Junia Joffer
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The impact of ‘baby care books’ on breastfeeding: how beliefs about routine, feeding and sleep are
associated with a shorter breastfeeding duration. Brown A. (UK)
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Breastfeeding a preschool child – mothers’ experiences and expectations. Olanders M. (Sweden)
Room 4 (Sal 4) Chair Christina Pedersen
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Catch 22: the emotional and practical experiences of breastfeeding mothers. Komninou S, Fallon V,
Halford J, Harrold J. (UK)
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Improving breastfeeding support for women following caesarean births: views and perspectives of
women, healthcare professionals and peer supporters. Chang Y-S, Montgomery E, Taylor C,
Chadderton Z, Bick D. ( UK)
12.40 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 15.00
Professor Liisa Lehtonen: Improving the quality of neonatal care - approaches and strategies
15.15 – 16.15
Concurrent Session 7
Room 1 (Sal 1) Chair Hannakaisa Niela-Vilén
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Coping strategies used by the mothers of preterm infants to master and tolerate the demand of
expressing breast milk. Ikonen R, Paavilainen E, Kaunonen M. (Finland)
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Pumping for preemies: psycho-social cultural understandings of maternal emotional negotiations
between body and baby in an Irish neonatal care unit (NICU). Cassidy TM. (Ireland)
Room 2 (Sal 2) Chair Gill Thomson
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Delivering infant feeding policy within the paradigm of infant health advocacy: implications for
experience and effectiveness. Trickey H, Sanders J, Murphy S. (UK)
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Neo-BFHI - Outline of the work of The Nordic and Quebec Working Group during 2009-2016.
Hannula L, Ezeonodo A, Haiek LN, Hedberg Nyqvist K, Maastrup R, (Finland, Canada, Sweden,
Denmark)
Room 3 (Sal 3) Chair Fiona Dykes
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Quebec women’s use and perceptions of primary health care support for breastfeeding: are they
receiving the services they need? Semenic S, Haiek L. (Canada)
Room 4 (Sal 4) Chair Anna Axelin
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Mother-Infant Caring Community: supporting new mothers to breastfeed their infants. Schmied V,
Burns E, Sheehan A. (Australia)
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Intelligent Guardianship: taking the drama out of obstetric theatre. Baston H, Brodrick A, Lee V.
(UK)
16.15 – 16.45
Refreshments (coffee and biscuit)
16.45 – 17.00
Close of conference: Associate Professor Renée Flacking
POSTERS – Tuesday and Wednesday
Associations between pride, shame and self-rated health in adolescence. Randell E, Joffer J, Flacking R, Starrin B,
Jerdén L. (Sweden)
Breastfeeding of low birth weight infants (LPT). Jonsdottir RB, Skuladottir A, Agustsdottir A. (Iceland)
Cue-based transition to oral feeding: literature review (a guide for clinicians: the how and when of oral feeding) Lubbe W.
(South Africa)
Decreased breastfeeding prevalence in preterm infants discharged from Swedish neonatal units. Ericsson J, Flacking R,
Hellström-Westas L, Eriksson M. (Sweden)
Effects of family-room Neonatal Intensive Care Unit on nurse-parent and nurse-infant interaction. Toivonen M, Lehtonen L,
Axelin A. (Finland)
Emotional consequences of violence in childhood. Jansson PM. (Sweden).
Interventions to increase uptake and duration of exclusive and any breastfeeding for women who have a planned or unplanned
caesarean birth: a mixed methods systematic review. Beake S, Bick D, Narracott C, Chang Y-S. (UK)
Mental health problems in adolescence as a precursor of teenage parenthood. Kalucza S.
MUIMME (Milk banking and the uncertain interaction between maternal milk and Ethanol): Preliminary results from the first
six months. Cassidy TM, Dykes F. (UK)
Nurses’ experiences of feeding very premature infants. Sahlén Helmer C, Hellgren M, Mörelius E. (Sweden)
Singing kangaroo-a family centered music therapy intervention for infants born preterm. Hugoson, P, Westrup B, Erkkilä J,
Haslbeck F, Huotilainen M, Fellman V, Lagercrantz H, Ådèn U. (Finland, Sweden)
Social experiences of breastfeeding: building bridges between research and policy: An ESRC-funded seminar series in the UK.
A report on progress to date and emerging outcomes. Dowling S. (UK)
Subjective social status and self-rated health among Swedish adolescents. Joffer J, Randell E, Flacking R, Jerdén L. (Sweden)
Swedish mothers’ perception of feeding their extremely premature infants. Kling K, Haraldsson E, Mörelius E. (Sweden)
The relationship between the inability to breastfeed and postnatal depression. du Plooy A, Lubbe W, du Preez A. (South Africa)
Understanding the relationship between stopping breastfeeding and postnatal depression: the role of breastfeeding
experience. Brown A. (UK)