Seminar Schedule

Pinky McKay

Pinky McKay will speak at The Baby & Toddler Show
Daily: Timing TBA. Location: Bio-Oil Main Stage

Pinky McKay is the Melbourne based parenting educator and writer, specialising in heath, education and family issues. It is an amazing privilege that McKay will be attending The Baby & Toddler Show.

At the show Pinky will be giving parents a rare insight into sleeping and settling your baby and toddler. Confused about conflicting baby sleep advice? Concerned about the impact of baby sleep training regimes such as controlled crying? Looking for gentle baby sleep and settling techniques that work? New evidence shows that some approaches to 'teaching babies to sleep' may cause long term, adverse changes to a baby's developing brain. Pinky McKay examines this evidence and offers gentle options to encourage infant sleep and settling that also promote optimum brain and emotional development, along with a secure parent-infant bond.

Pinky is a respected baby care author, lactation consultant, infant massage instructor and mum of five.

Can't make it to the Show, why not visit Pinky's Website

Angharad Candlin

Angharad Candlin will speak at The Baby & Toddler Show
Daily: Timing TBA. Location: Bio-Oil Main Stage

Due to her popularity in previous shows, we are very excited to be inviting Angharad Candlin back again. Angharad is a registered psychologist with over twenty years' experience working with children, young people and families. Angharad, in her engaging and fun style, will offer parents of The Baby & Toddler Show incredible insight into toddler behaviour.

In this seminar you will gain an understanding into how a toddler's brain and their emotional development are inextricably linked. Find out how you as a parent play a special and unique role in shaping your toddler's brain and learn how straightforward sequences of events can provide your child with the capacity to grow into an emotionally resilient child.

Angharad is the Co-ordinator of Parent Education with ParentCare and regularly facilitates parent education courses and professional development sessions. Be sure to bags a seat and be entertained by a woman with a wealth of experience in all things toddler related

Amanda Thornton (Child Revive)

Amanda Thornton will speak at The Baby & Toddler Show
Daily: 2.10pm – 2.30pm. Location: Bio-Oil Main Stage

Help! My child is choking.
Seeing a child choke will create panic in any parent. Given that choking is such a common first aid emergency in the home with children aged up to four years of age it is vital that parents know how to respond. This session will teach you how to distinguish between a partial and full airway obstruction so you will know how to best manage this life-threatening emergency. The techniques for clearing your child’s airway will be demonstrated on the baby and child manikins so you will gain the skills to respond calmly, confidently and effectively.

Amanda Thornton is the founder of Child Revive First Aid which is a uniquely practical service that provides child first aid training to parents and carers of children. Amanda also practices as an Ambulance Paramedic, a role in which she is continually involved in a variety of child related first aid emergencies. Amanda brings to her training almost ten years of emergency experience as well as her experiences as a mother of two young children to provide parents and carers with the essential skills and knowledge to care for their own children in an emergency.

Jan Ireland (Midwives & Mothers Australia)

Jan Ireland will speak at The Baby & Toddler Show
Daily: 12.35pm – 12.55pm. Location: Bio-Oil Main Stage

Jan is a Midwife (35 Years Experience) & Director at Midwives & Mothers Australia. Travelling around Europe in a Combi van with her husband in the early 70’s, Jan was one of the original flower children when she fell pregnant with her own first child, Emma. The disempowering childbirth that delivered Emma spurred Jan on to midwifery training. Jan has been in private practice as a Midwife for 25 years and she remains committed to avoiding disempowerment of the family during pregnancy, birth and beyond.

Join Jan as she guides you through choosing your birth team and the:
∙ Choices available to you and your birth
∙ Your options in choosing a care team
∙ Different types of birth and,
∙ Options for places of birth in Victoria

The MAMA centre is the first midwifery-run centre of its kind in Victoria. MAMA midwives work as your primary carer in partnership with you, your family and any other chosen care providers to provide individualised care to suit your needs. The key to MAMA's success is our eligibility to offer Medicare rebates for some prenatal and postnatal services.

Yvette O’Dowd (Australian Breastfeeding Association)

Yvette O'Dowd will speak at The Baby & Toddler Show
Daily: Timing TBA. Location: Bio-Oil Main Stage

Early Daze – Tips for learning to breastfeed and overcoming early challenges
While breastfeeding is natural, it doesn’t come naturally to all of us. Breastfeeding is a learned skill for mums and knowing how it works, how to successfully attach your baby and what to do if things don’t go as you expected can help you gain confidence and enjoy breastfeeding. The Australian Breastfeeding Association helps more than 70,000 mums each year and this talk will give you practical tips from a qualified breastfeeding counsellor.

Yvette is a mum of 3 and has been a volunteer breastfeeding counsellor with the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) since 1992. She is also currently manager of ABA’s Breastfeeding Centre in Dandenong, which educates and supports hundreds of mums each year.