These are the subjects of some past meetings, mostly accompanied by full meeting reports:-
Programmes of earlier meetings
The best of both worlds: Complementary therapies for mothers & babies.Programme.
Full report.
From grief to new life: The impact of the loss of a baby or of the birth of a baby with special needs on further pregnancies. Programme
Inequality in maternity care. Where have we got to? Read a full report
A 2003 parliamentary report on inequality of maternity care.
Are you sitting comfortably? Issues around perineal trauma. Programme and full report
Home Birth: A realistic possibility? Joint meeting with the Association of Community Based Maternity Care and the Royal College of Midwives.
Programme and full report
Mixed blessings: ethical issues in assisted conception. Joint meeting with the Open Section.
Programme and report
Pregnant and with HIV: facts and feelings.
Programme and report
24th April 2003 (All day meeting). Caring for the emotions in pregnancy, birth and beyond.
Programme.
Full report
A child for a child. Teenage pregnancy - whose problem?.
Programme
Report
Ethnic and cultural difference: implications for maternity care.Programme.
Report
Domestic Violence in Pregnancy - opening Pandora's Box. Programme.
Full report
Breastfeeding: State of the Art.
Programme and full report.
22nd April 2004 (All day meeting). Normal birth - making it possible in the 21st century
Programme and full report.
17th June 2004. Ill mothers and critical care: the challenge in the 21st Century. Programme and full report
23rd September 2004. Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction. Programme and report.
11th November 2004. Changing Childbirth again? The implications for maternity
care of the National Service Framework.
Programme and full report.
22nd February 2005 (All day). Extended Newborn Screening - anticipating the
future. Joint meeting with the Section of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Programme and report
Bicentenary Meeting of the Forum on Maternity and the Newborn of the Royal Society of Medicine, Thursday 28 April 2005. Preterm birth: a medical miracle with an
emotional cost?
Programme
Full report in two sections. Section 1.
16th June 2005. Information for women with emergencies in labour.
Programme
Report
24th November 2005. Litigation, risk management and patient safety - A new approach to old problems.
Full report of the meeting
23rd February 2006. Assessment of the newborn: whose job - midwife or neonatologist?
Programme
Report
13th April 2006. Medicines in maternal and neonatal care: current
practice and future
developments.
Programme and full report
June 22 2006 Female genital mutilation - an outmoded practice?
Programme and report
18th September 2006 (All day).
Assessment of the preterm neonate and the prediction of late outcome.
Evening workshop: The neurobehavioural assessment of the
preterm infant (NAPI).
Programme and report
21st September 2006.
Ethics at the beginning of life
Programme and full report
16 March 2007
Controversies in childbirth
A joint evening meeting with the Section of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Programme and full report
20 March 2007
The art and science of twins.
A joint all day meeting with the Section of Paediatrics & Child Health
Programme and meeting report
23 April 2007
The child protection minefield
Programme and full report
Thursday 21 June 2007
Asylum seekers and the maternity services
Programme and full report
27th September 2007
Birth at home
Programme and full report
22 November 2007
Weight matters - addressing obesity in pregnancy and beyond.
Programme and full report
21 February 2008
Birth after 35 - the older mother -
Programme and full report
16 April 2008
New reviews on the safety and quality of maternity care: Lessons, challenges and opportunities
Programme
19 June 2008 All day meeting.
Joint meeting with the Intellectual Disability Forum.
Every family matters: disability, pregnancy and parenthood
Programme
Full report in three sections
23 September 2008
Academic Health Sciences Centres: What are they and what will be their impact on Women's Health?
Programme
Thursday 13 November 2008 (All day)
Stress and pregnancy - the hidden childbirth morbidity
A joint meeting with the British Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Andrology
Programme
Thursday 22 January 2009
Born unequal
A joint meeting with the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Programme
Monday 27 April 2009
Pelvic floor trauma: the silent morbidity of childbirth
Programme
Monday 22 June 2009
Parenting and communication
Programme
Monday 9 November 2009
Mum I'm pregnant! Teenage pregnancy
Programme
Thursday 28 January 2010
Do the communication styles of midwives and doctors affect the physical and psychological outcomes for mother and baby?
Programme
Thursday 15 April 2010;
Making maternity care safer: moving beyond risk management
Programme