The Magical Hour: Holding Your Baby Skin to Skin in the First Hour After Birth (2011)

This film will guide the viewer through the beauty and magic of the first hour after birth. Combining stunning videography of babies during this amazing time with the humorous and practical insights of real parents and the grounded research of international experts Ann-Marie Widstrom and Lars Ake Hanson, this film is both heartwarming and informative. Every baby goes through nine instinctive, amazing stages when skin to skin with their mother during this first hour. Each of these stages are beautifully illustrated and discussed. International in scope, it will give parents a realistic view of what it means to spend that first hour in direct uninterrupted contact with the new life they have been given.