I have to share a sense of happiness at finding the right photo after
several months of pursuit.

My husband is a psychologist who went to a talk at the Center for Infant
Studies.  He reported back that the psychiatrist postulated that the
football hold interferes with mother-infant gaze and its role in
attachment.  The picture my husband described sounded like poor positioning
to me.  So, for several months afterwards I watched infant's gazes in the
football and transition holds (and occaisional cradle with older babies)
and concluded it actually seems to work a little better for mother infant
gaze than the transition hold.  Then I talked to the psychiatrist over the
phone who seemed interested but still couldn't quite grasp what I was
talking about or perhaps didn't quite believe that the football hold could
be so different than the hold her client used.  I had no idea how difficult
it can be to get just the right photo to illustrate your point until I
searched my supervisor's archives.  Finally, yesterday, I found the perfect
photo of a mother-infant pair that illustrated the gaze beautifully as well
as great football hold positioning.  I hope this does the trick.  Its
amazing to me that in this talk for infant child experts, the only person
that knew anything about the football hold at all was an MD who thought it
might be good for engorgement.

Susan Burger

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