>> Bettina Pearson wrote: >> Janet, >> I'm a bit behind on reading posts (HOW DO YOU ALL KEEP UP?), >> but my favorite 'detail' video is Chloe Fisher's, "Helping A Mother to >> Breastfeed: No Finer Investment". I cue it to 2 sections demonstrating a >> nutritive and non-nutritive latch. It breaks the nutritive latch into slow >> motion segments. I love the whole video too, about 20 min. long. > Gonneke wrote: >This indeed does have these nice slowmotion parts and I use this video a lot >myself for training hcp's, but not only for these parts, also to point out how >*not* to help a mom to take the baby at the breast. What I find a minor >point in >this video is the fact that the midwife is latching the baby instead of the >mother. (BTW the second time the mother does it herself and then the baby' >latch >on is better!) I always get the feeling that the helper handling the >breasts and >the baby is like teaching someone to ride a bycicle by turning the pedals for >her. Agreed, Gonneke. This video has often been criticised here for this very sequence, and I use it in training for 'how not to' as well : ) It has a lot of good points, and technically it is fine, but it is not 'mother centred' in any way. Heather Welford Neil NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html