>From:    "Barbara Wilson-Clay,BSE,IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: cleft palate baby
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>Becky writes about a 3 mo old who has recently had cleft lip repair, but who
>still has unrepaired cleft of palate.  She wants to know about getting baby
>to breast.

We have a NMAA Counsellor here with a baby with clefts of both lip and
palate. The baby went to the breast (eventually) after the palate repair
(lip had been done earlier) at 7 months.  He had NEVER fed at the breast before.


Lesley McBurney
Brisbane, Australia
NMAA Breastfeeding Counsellor (Clayfield/Wilston Group, Qld)
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