In a message dated 7/28/2006 7:55:19 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
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Have you  seen Kittie Frantz's DVD version of First Attachment?  I
>just came  back from the LLLI Physician's conference and she was there
>selling it  and telling people about her new discovery (which is on
>the new  version, on the DVD) that babies will self-attach even weeks
>after  birth and then go to the other breast and self-attach there.
>She thinks  that it is an instinct more than we thought and that we
>have been  "micro managing" breastfeeding too much.


Dear Friends:
    Absolutely. Why would people think that babies  would be born lacking 
skills and abilities to survive? 
    Clinically, I've seen babies up to 5 weeks old  start the delivery 
self-attachment process after a long bout of s2s. Sometimes  the baby has to tell 
its story, with a triad of cathartic behaviors. I've   not seen the 
self-attachment behaviors in babies older than that, but perhaps  that is because by 6 
weeks of age, moms haven't come to me requesting help with  latch?
    I've seen parts of the self-attachment sequence in  older infants, who 
may turn their head toward the breast when held in arms, but  they don't go any 
further than that in the process.
    warmly,

 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Lactation Consultant,  Philadephia Department of Public Health
Maternal-Child Adjunct Faculty, Union  Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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