Gonneke,
I would love to hear more abou this and yes, I've seen this in much older
children...my 3.5yo (adopted at 3y4m) daughter for instance!
Karleen
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From: "gonneke van veldhuizen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 4:52 PM
Subject: Re: first attachment


> I know of a 9 month old fosterchild that took the fostermoms breast as if
done never anything else during a therapeutic bath together.
>
>   Warmly,
>
>   Gonneke
>
> Nikki Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> 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,
>
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