I've been contacted by the mother of a child, just adopted from overseas
with a cleft palate. The child is 12 months old and had been weaned from the
bottle but her mother really wishes to bottle feed her (to be able to
provide nurturing, very strongly recommended by adoption experts). They have
some teats suppose to be for feeding cleft babies but it is not working very
well.

The mother thinks that what she needs is a teat that is broad but short but
is really not sure what to do. The feeding expert at the local hospital
exhibited a very negative attitude towards adoption and was no help at all
so the mum is on her own.

Does anyone in Australia have suggestions for where she might be able to get
teats that might make this easier or suggestions for bottlefeeding an older
baby with cleft palate

This is a little bit off topic (the mother's first adopted child did
breastfeed on her own initiative so maybe it's not far off) so please reply
to me privately.


Karleen Gribble
Australia

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