Much research has been carried out in Ireland that has helped to shape our understanding of nutrition and its impact on mothers and babies, however, as with many scientific areas, the distribution of this information and creating change in clinical practice is challenging.
The main aim of this conference is to launch three key nutrition documents:
HSE & RCPI Clinical Practice Guideline for Nutrition in Pregnancy (2019);
Department of Health Healthy Eating for Pregnancy booklet (2019);
Department of Health Folic Acid Supplementation Report (2018).
The conference will provide a one-day program with presentations from experts in the field of nutrition in pregnancy and the science of putting evidence into practice. Presenters at the conference have helped to shape the guideline or their research has played a role in informing the content of the guideline. This will allow attendees to become familiar with the guidelines, the evidence and how it can be applied. The conference will help healthcare workers, from different areas across the island of Ireland, meet to build research relationships and create ideas.
The aims of this conference are:
To bring together leading researchers and healthcare professionals to exchange and share their experiences and research results on nutrition in pregnancy;
To ensure the messages on nutrition in pregnancy and folic acid are the same across health services;
To promote how the guideline will be used in practice and to demonstrate the healthy eating booklet that will be available for all pregnant women in Ireland.