If babies do search the breast with open eyes, once they are happily feeding (nursing?) they usually close their eyes and contentedly drink.
Notice all the babies on Dr. Smillie's video: they find the breast by feel with their cheeks, chin, and tongue, and perhaps by smell. They did not look for the breast with open eyes. Some were first-time feeders; some were experienced BFing babies who were doing their dance for the video. No open eyes that I could see.

The ones who go to breast with eyes open are those who are in a quiet-alert state already and are placed in proper vicinity by mother. They do latch with eyes open, tend to stay that way for a little while, but when the first milk release begins, and the gulping begins, they close their eyes and continue that way to the end of the feed.

Just my observations.

Phyllis
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Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC, RLC
Glendale, AZ.
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