I've been reading the thread "Breastfeeding is Love" with interest. Just had another patient where S2S worked wonders before I saw patient.Infant 4 days old would not latch @ all,saw LC's in hospital.I couldn't see pt. yesterday, she was seeing MD and in home care in US in my part of country, insurance won't pay for MD and LC visit in same day. I described assymetrical latch, and S2S over the phone and today infant was already Breastfeeding beautifully and content and transfered 84 ML @ breast! I did transfer weight as infant had lost a lot of weight and MD was concerned. I've been wondering if telling patients what Nils Bergman has found, that S2S and the act of Breastfeeding lowers an infant's Cortisol level. Telling parents that lower stress hormone levels certainly are beneficial to the infant and who knows how that will affect the infant in later life. There are advertisements that link lower corisol levels with being thinner and having less abdomenal body fat. Now I certainly don't think that is critically important, but cortisol is in the news. What do you think? The US Department of Agriculture ,Food and Nutrition Service has a video Oct 2002 and booklets titled "Fathers Supporting Breastfeeding" The materials are free. I loved Debbie Tobin's idea about AD's by Pierce Bronson. Also liked idea of teaching comfortable position so body will remember, I see a fair am't of moms who have no trouble latching on one side but difficulty with the other until we can figure out a comfortable position for her and her hand. I know that I learned to type in a high school course. I can't tell you where each letter is on the keyboard but my fingers know. My daughter is a physical therapist who works with brain injured patients. She teaches them to dial their phone repeatedly, they may not be able to tell you their number but can dial the number. Chris Erland RN IBCLC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html