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Chris states >Medela has a great little booklet "Give us a littel more
time" or
something like that with good pictures. <                                  
                                                     The pamphlet is
called:  Give us a little Time:  How babies with a cleft lip or cleft
palate can be brestfed by Christa Herzog-Ilsler, IBCLC and Dr. Klaus
Honigmann, PD Dr. med, Dr. med. dent.  It is 31pages and can be ordered by
contacting Medela:  PO Box 660, McHenry, Il 60051 or (800) 435-8316 or
(888) 633-3528.  The part # is 1900502.  They also have in their 1999
catalog "The Special Touch Babies Need, Care of Infant with Cleft
Lip/Palate"  video by The Children
's Mercy Hospital in Kansa City, MO.  Part # is 6017152.  You can also
order the viieo directly from Mercy Hosptial.  The other video I love to
show when I lecture on cleft lip/palate is the video "Samuel" by Christa
Herzog-Isler.  Beautiful pictures of successful  BF babies, breastfeeding
with cleft lips and palates.  A wonderul visual teaching tool that also
shows all about palatal obturators. You can order it from:  C. Herzog,
Pilatusstrasse 4, CH-6033 Buchrain, Switzerland or phone/fax: (0)41-440 22
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Pat Bull, RN, IBCLC
The Breastfeeding Connection/Medela
Naperville, IL -sunny and warming up