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Title:
 Video - Delivery Self Attachment
Author:
 Dr. Lennart Righard
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Summary
The amazing video of a newborn's ability to crawl up to the breast and attach himself unassisted.
Dr Righard's study, published in 1990*, looked at two groups of newborn babies. In the first group, the infant was placed on the mother's abdomen and within 50 minutes most infants had self attached to the breast and were sucking correctly. In the second group, the newborn babies were removed from the mother's abdomen, bathed, measured and replaced on the abdomen. The infants in this group from an unmedicated birth self attached but half of them had a faulty suckling pattern. Most of the infants from a medicated birth were too drowsy to be able to suckle at all. * The Lancet 1990;336:1105-07.
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