Jeannette, I hope some "experts" in working with these babies will reply. But I wanted to alert you to the video from the ILCA conference session last July in which Sandra Lang talks about cup feeding. There is a sequence showing cup feeding of a baby with cleft lip, and discusses the mother's good feeling about this feeding method helped until the repair was done. It was Plenary Session G, "Cup-feeding in the Neonatal Unit." Conference tapes are available through First Tape, 411 Harrison-Front, Oak Park, IL 60304 (708)386-0660, FAX (708)386-0330 LLL has a pamphlet on "Nursing a Baby with Cleft Lip or Palate," (#122), and another is available through Childbirth Graphics, "Nursing Your Baby with a Cleft Palate or Cleft Lip," by Sarah Coulter Danner and Edward Cerutti. This has good photos of positioning options. (They are the ones who devised the "Dancer hand " position, from the Dan and Cer in their names.) Anne Altshuler, RN, MS, IBCLC and LLL Leader in Madison, WI