In a message dated 97-09-16 16:45:15 EDT, you write:

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 Jane, tell us more about the video!  I have seen Medela's booklet and
 wished there was a video to go with it, to show parents.  Thanks,
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Gina,
The video is called "Samuel:  Breastfed infants with cleft lip and cleft
palate".  The address is:
Christa Herzog-Isler DIPL. STILLBERATERIN IBCLC
PILATUSSTRASSE 4 . CH-6033 BUCHRAIN
Switzerland

FAX  + TELEFON 041 . 440 2214

I do not have a price on this video as the copy I have is on loan from Kay
Hoover.

It is at least 20 to 30 minutes long and shows babies with different kinds of
clefts.  The baby with just the cleft lip breastfeeds without problems.
There is a baby who has Down's Syndrome and a cleft lip and palate and
several other babies nursing.  Then there is Samual who has a complete
bilateral cleft lip and palate.   There are several scenes of his mother
coaxing him to the breast and breastfeeding.  There is very little dialog and
lots of classical music.  The mother uses lots of breast massage and you can
hear the audible gulping.  Also Samuel is not a newborn, but looks to me to
be at least 3 months old as he smiles and laughs and is very sociable and
 appealing.  At the end of his nursing the mother removes his obturator which
was a shock the first time I saw it as it was completely unnoticable until
she pulled it out of his mouth.  I said to myself "So that's how he could do
it!"
Another section Christa tells of her retrospective study and her conclusions
about upper resp. infections and middle ear infections which were continuous
in the formula fed babies, GREATLY reduced in the breast milk fed babies, and
there were NO middle ear infections in the babies who were actually
breastfed.  She surmises that the muscles of the palate are important in
opening and ventilating the "ear tubes" properly.
What else can I say.  It convinced me!  Maybe it can convince others in the
medical field.

Jane Bradshaw RN, BSN, IBCLC
Lynchburg, VA