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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