Videos and DVDs

Latch 1, 2, 3: Troubleshooting Breastfeeding in the Early Weeks
 Breastfeeding is the best choice for mothers, babies, families and society. But what happens if there are breastfeeding challenges in the early weeks? This DVD by Healthy Children's Center for Breastfeeding gives you step-by-step problems solving strategies to help breastfeeding work. This DVD aids health care teams in sharing an understanding of feeding cues, baby state, the importance of skin-to-skin, latch, and other tips, 17 minutes, $29.95

Skin to Skin in the First Hour After Birth: Practical Advice for Staff after Vaginal and Cesarean Birth

This important video is intended to assist staff in providing behaviorally appropriate, individualized, baby adapted care for the full term newborn using the best practice of skin to skin contact in the first hour after birth. The video is divided into three sections: the importance of skin to skin and examples of the baby's stages during the first hour; practical advice for staff after a vaginal birth; and practical advice for staff after a cesarean birth. DVD, 2010, 39 minutes, $39.00

Breastfeeding - Baby's Choice
 This DVD demonstrates the newborn baby's natural instinct to search for and find the mother's breast. The baby we follow during the first hour of life will show us a variety of explicit behaviors such as looking, listening, touching and talking while exploring life outside the womb. A wonderful tool for parents or professionals. This DVD, which includes the role of the father, is based on the scientific results in midwifery research carried out at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm Sweden. English and Canadian French, 8 minutes, $39.00

How to Milk by Hand/ How to Feed from a Cup

A six minute DVD from the National Breastfeeding Committee of Denmark, this DVD is now available in the US. It explains hand expression step-by-step and how to cup feed babies. It is concise and a great teaching tool for staff and mothers. $19.95

 

Delivery Self Attachment

A six minute video depicting a newborn's ability to birth and crawl up to the breast and ATTACH UNASSISTED! Lennart Righard, MD's study published with midwife, Margaret Alade, in the Lancet, looked at two groups of babies. One group was unmedicated and within 50 minutes most infants self attached! This video will change your protocols! A must for hospital staff in-service. A wonderful adjunct to childbirth classes. $19.95

 

She Needs You

A 20 minute video or DVD from the Swedish Breastfeeding Institute. It shows English midwife Chloe Fisher working with mothers. Although there is now much emphasis on proper latch on, explaining the "how to" of an excellent latch-on is difficult with mothers and other health care providers. This video is absolutely the best teaching tool on the subject. Chloe's verbal explanation and hands-on techniques go far beyond other teaching tools. Health Education Associates Inc. is the exclusive distributor of this video in North America. $29.95

 

 

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