I have a baby I am following now with Pierre Robin. She is doing
fairly well, though she is getting some breastmilk via squeeze bottle.
This is the first time we are getting this sort of success with Pierre
Robin Syndrome.  It's true it's not a severe case (cleft palate is
partial), but the short tongue and the small mandible are real.  But,
if we had assumed it was not possible, as the pediatrician, all the
nurses and anyone else who could offer an opinion did, the baby would
not be breastfeeding would she?  If you don't try, for sure it ain't
gonna work.

The ENT surgeon knows not of what he speaks.  Why would milk tend to
reflux more into the eustachian tube if the baby gets milk from the
breast, than if he gets it from a Haberman bottle?  Just can't say "I
don't know" I think.

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC