Most often babies who are born with cleft lips or palates are required to stay a bit longer in the hospitals than other babies. This is due to the special feedings that babies with clefts need. You can’t simply place a bottle in the baby’s mouth and they start drinking. With cleft babies there are [...]
When I was five months pregnant I was going for my normal doctor appointments and so far everything was going well. I had just gone to my sonogram and a few days later I got a call from my doctor. She had informed me that my baby was going to be born with a cleft [...]
Babies born with cleft palate will encounter many different problems and one of those problems is oral sensory. Kids that are born with cleft palates will have trouble feeding right from the start. These days cleft lips and cleft palates can be detected before the baby is born. When a parent knows that their [...]
One of the most challenging things for a baby born with a cleft palate is bottle feeding. Since surgery is not done until the third or fourth month, feeling your baby can be very stressful and challenging. If your baby was born with a cleft lip, cleft palate or both chances are they will [...]
