In introducing hospital staff to skin to skin holding at birth,  
another useful resource is the work done by Carol Melcher, RN, MPH,  
Director of the Perinatal Services at Loma Linda University Medical  
Center in California.  She has lots of experience training hospital  
staff in this area and has spoken at several ILCA conferences on this  
topic.

See the poster for staff at the S.O.F.T. web site: http://www.llu.edu/ 
llumc/psn/soft.html

Large size SOFT poster: http://lomalindahealth.org/common/pdf/SOFT% 
20CONCEPT%20PAPER.pdf

These could be handed out or posted.  You can click on "About Us" and  
then on "Meet our Staff" for contact information.

Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute used to have a beautiful 20  
minute long video for health professionals and parents with a  
sequence of still photos of the breast crawl.  It was titled "Amazing  
Talents of the Newborn" and featured Marshall Klaus.  It was very  
supportive of breastfeeding and contained no bottles or pacifiers and  
lots of breastfeeding.  One section is called "The First Hour" and  
the message is, "From the moment of birth the newborn is able to  
observe and be an active participant in his world."  There is a  
separate section on breastfeeding, too.  Sadly, I think the video is  
no longer available, but maybe you could find someone with an old  
copy.  The title comes up when you Google it, but everyone seems to  
be citing it or looking for a copy.

The Lennart Righard "Delivery Self Attachment" video is only 5  
minutes long.  It is easily available from amazon.com
as well as from Kittie Frantz at http://www.geddesproduction.com/ 
breast-feeding-delivery-selfattachment.php

Previous discussions on Lactnet have aired varying reactions to its  
use in classes.  You have to see what will best fit your particular  
audience's needs.

(I have no financial interest in any of these resources.)

Anne Altshuler, RN, MS, IBCLC, LLLL
Madison, WI, USA

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