I keep getting a lot of emails from people asking me for a video showing baby-led latching for teaching moms or other professionals, so it might help if I posted to Lactnet about where you can see this. While we're working on a video that I hope will be pretty comprehensive, showing lots of different circumstances and ways that this can be used, I'm afraid it won't be ready for quite awhile, because I really want to do it right, and cover a lot of territory. However, the good news is that Kittie Frantz already has an excellent video showing two different babies doing their babyled thing in her revised newest DVD version of her video First Attachment, Vol.One. And of course there's also Righard and Alade's "Self-attachment" video of the babies latching by themselves in the first hours of life. Those two videos together beautifully illustrate the human baby's innate capabilities to latch on their own. But now we know that this ability is not limited to the first 24 hours of life, nor to the bathtub. All you need is mom to help baby be calm and relaxed, skin on skin. And patience, to let baby lead the way. The Righard video has mom supine, the babies on the mother's abdomen, and Kittie's video has the moms sitting up, their five or six? week old babies going from midline on mom's chest to the 45 degree angle that they all seem to like to take when left to their own devices (baby's hips in mom's lap, below the opposite breast). Anyway, you can get both of these videos from Geddes Productions quite inexpensively, just google it, (but watch out, there are two Geddes Productions, the other one sells stuff for kids with special needs, they do have a link if you get to the wrong site.) And books: Nancy Mohrbacher and Kathy Kendall-Tackett's new book, Breastfeeding Made Simple: The Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers, is wonderful, for both mothers and professionals, and in their chapter on how babies are hardwired to breastfeed, they describe baby-led latching quite well. It's available thru all the usual places, or you can google it and get to it's own website. I also like to recommend Marshall and Phyllis Klaus' Your Amazing Newborn, which isn't specifically about baby-led latch, but goes into all the various aspects of newborn competence that underlie the infant's ability to do this. It is a wonderful illustrated annotated bibliography to newborn neurobehavior. And they do have a sequence of stills showing the newborn crawling up the abdomen to the breast. (They also have a one page description of how we do the baby-led approach in their latest Doula Book.) But seeing is believing, and the videos speak volumes. This is very exciting stuff that babies can do, and I love it that so many of you have gone home and tried it, and keep writing me with all your excited success stories. It's so amazing what the babies teach us, and I find I keep learning from all of you as you get back to me and tell me stories about how you have adapted this approach and what the babies have taught you. And it is so empowering to mothers to show them what their babies can do. That mom doesn't have to know how to breastfeed, her baby already knows. That they have a partner in this. She doesn't have to try to force her baby to feed, all she has to do is help her baby be calm enough to follow thru on his instincts. Tina Smillie, MD, IBCLC, FABM *********************************************** 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