Wish you could have me speak somewhere near you?

Why choose me as your speaker?

Hi, I'm Dr Kirsten Small. I am a retired specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist, and I work as an educator, writer, and researcher. I'm an experienced and engaging presenter with a detailed knowledge of the evidence base about all aspects of fetal heart rate monitoring. 

I promise your audience will learn something new, be challenged to think differently, and inspired to contribute to efforts to improve maternity care. 

My vision is to promote and protect respectful maternity care for women, babies, families, and their care providers through education and research. I am a feminist, so expect me to use words like "patriarchy" from time to time. I sometimes spice up presentations with the occasional well-placed swear word. If this makes you uncomfortable, I'm probably not the right fit for you and your event.

I welcome opportunities to speak with groups of maternity professionals, students, doulas, educators, researchers, and birthing women about any aspect of fetal heart rate monitoring. 

Here's a sample of what I can speak about...

My area of research expertise is fetal monitoring. I can speak about:

• The evidence-base about the use of different fetal monitoring approaches during labour
• The evidence base about antenatal CTG use and admission CTGs
• Fetal heart rate physiology and what this means for fetal heart rate monitoring
• How to do evidence-based intermittent auscultation in a way that is professionally safe
• The history of fetal heart rate monitoring: How we got here and what we need to do now 
• Fetal monitoring options for VBAC
• Fetal monitoring options for induction of labour
• Fetal monitoring options for (pretty much anything you want to put here!) 
• Central fetal monitoring and whether it is safe or not

If you have another topic in mind, let's chat.

If it is something that requires extra prep time I can probably still do it, but will ask for a higher speakers fee to cover this.