PRENATAL SCIENCES GLOBAL CONGRESS PRESS RELEASE

On the 6-9 October 2022, the 1st Prenatal Sciences Global Congress took place online. The theme of the congress was: Prenatal Sciences, Human-Earth Connection and Life Sustainability.

PRESS RELEASE

On the 6-9 October 2022, the 1^st Prenatal Sciences Global Congress took place online.

The theme of the congress was: Prenatal Sciences, Human-Earth Connection and Life Sustainability.

It was organized by the Prenatal Sciences Partnership and co-supported by ISPPM and APPPAH.

 

There were 136 speakers from all continents
presenting in paper sessions, 6 panel discussions, 2 symposiums, 2 round tables.
4 Days and 56 live hours.
Accredited  32 credits by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME)

The congress was attended by 645 people from 47 countries

There was also an art exhibition and a book exhibition as well as children’s hubs.

As Raylene Phillips, MD, MA, IBCLC, APPPAH President said: This Prenatal Sciences Global Congress has been an historic event by bringing so many like-minded organizations and people from all over the world together to learn, to network, and to be inspired. 

The congress was a strong voice to let people, researchers, academia, health professionals, advocates for human rights and childbirth realize that it is high time we put in practice all our till now wishful thinking of working together in an inter/transdisciplinary way and for the interests of the community in a way that respects our planet.

The way we treat the (un/new)born babies reflects on the way we also treat our planet or vice versa and it is time to reverse this. Life sustainability is interconnected with an attitudinal change that sees a continuum of life that embraces past, present and moves to the future, all species on earth founding the principles of creative collaboration where autonomy and personal individuation can be honored within the big community of living entities.

As Raylene Philipps said: We must celebrate these models and raise awareness that it IS possible to provide a gentle and loving welcome to new little human beings who come to share this world with us.  Although we must continue our efforts to heal birth trauma, the only way we are going to get ahead of the avalanche of trauma we are facing today is to … support and promote awareness of the models we know are working, so that awareness of them will snowball and more and more will know it is possible to have a safe and trauma-free birth. 

The congress ended on the 9^th October 2022 with the awards presented to significant contributors to the development and advancement of Prenatal Sciences.

The following awards were offered:
The Prenatal Sciences Pioneer Award was presented to Thomas Verny, MD
The Fedor Freybergh- Verny Award for Visionary Leadership to Ludwig Janus, MD
The Gabriela Ferrari Pioneer Research Award to Grigori Brekhman for his new theory of Parturition
The David Chamberlain Award for (un)born Child Advocacy was offered to Agnes Cereb, William Emerson and Karlton Terry
The deMause-Chilton Pearce Award for social responsibility and consciousness advancement to Jon RG and Troya GN Turner

Finally there were two more awards offered to winners voted by the attendees:
The Otto Rank Art Award was presented to Birth Marks (artwork) by Gulay Aydogmus and

The Janus Book Award was presented to the Book “The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey”
(information about the awards: https://www.prenatalsciencespartnership.org/about-1 )

Information about the congress: https://www.prenatalsciencespartnership.org
The congress material will remain on the congress platform until mid-March 2023.

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