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Breastfeeding a baby with cleft lip and/or palate
Breastfeeding
an infant with cleft lip or cleft palate from Children’s
Hospitals and Clinics Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN - Cleft
lip and/or palate - feeding your baby from The Children's
Hospital at Westmead
- Breastfeeding a
Cleft Lip-Palate Baby from the SMILES website
- Mom's
Milk Matters: Breastfeeding a Baby With Cleft Lip or Cleft Palate
by Gwen Morrison
- Clefts
of the Lip and Palate by Barbara Wilson-Clay, BS, IBCLC
- Breastfeeding
the Infant with a Cleft Palate by Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC
- Lactation
Information and Resources from Cleft Advocate
- Supplementing
the Breastfed Infant with a Cleft by Joan McCartney IBCLC
- Congenital
Disorders: Implications for Breastfeeding by Cynthia Good
Mojab, MS
- Pierre
Robin Sequence by Jill Landis, from Leaven, Vol. 37
No. 5, October-November 2001, pp. 111-112.
Mothers' Breastfeeding Stories
Additional breastfeeding resources @ 
General information (not specifically breastfeeding
related)
Information sheets
Organizations
Publications
Nursing a Baby With a Cleft Lip or Palate. This La Leche
League pamphlet provides information on the advantages of breastfeeding
a baby with a cleft lip or palate as well as advice on breastfeeding
after cleft repair surgery. (Available from LLLI)
Herzog-Isler, C. and Honigmann, K. Give Us a Little Time: How
Babies with a Cleft Lip or Cleft Palate Can Be Breastfed. IL:
Medela, 1996. Booklet from Medela on breastfeeding a baby with a
cleft lip or palate. Discusses breastfeeding benefits, techniques,
and special feeding aids, as well as forms, causes, and treatment
of cleft lip and palate. Includes quotes from parents and many beautiful
color photos of babies and parents. Written by a pediatric nurse
and lactation consultant and a doctor specializing in jaw and facial
surgery. (available from LLLI
or Medela)
Breastfeeding the Infant with a Cleft Lip/Palate, Unit 10
of the Lactation Consultant Series, by Sarah Danner, RN, CPNP, IBCLC,
and Barbara Wilson-Clay, BS Ed. (available from LLLI)
The Controversial
Issue of Breast-feeding Cleft-affected Infants by Jacalyn
Miller. This booklet is a comprehensive review of the medical research
about clefts and breastfeeding, and summarizes thousands of clefts
and breastfeeding experiences. Corrects misinformation about clefts
and breastfeeding while also promoting the preventative value of
feeding breastmilk.
Journal Articles (most recent listed first)
Aniansson G, Svensson H, Becker M, Ingvarsson L. Otitis
media and feeding with breast milk of children with cleft palate.
Scand J Plast Reconstr Surg Hand Surg. 2002;36(1):9-15.
Stockdale HJ. Long-term
expressing of breastmilk. Breastfeed Rev. 2000 Nov;8(3):19-22.
Biancuzzo M. Clinical
focus on clefts. Yes! Infants with clefts can breastfeed. AWHONN
Lifelines. 1998 Aug;2(4):45-9.
Crossman K. Breastfeeding
a baby with a cleft palate: a case report. J Hum Lact. 1998
Mar;14(1):47-50.
Kogo M, Okada G, Ishii S, Shikata M, Iida S, Matsuya T. Breast
feeding for cleft lip and palate patients, using the Hotz-type plate.
Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 1997 Jul;34(4):351-3.
Paradise JL, Elster BA, Tan L.Evidence
in infants with cleft palate that breast milk protects against otitis
media. Pediatrics. 1994 Dec;94(6 Pt 1):853-60.
Cohen M, Marschall MA, Schafer ME. Immediate
unrestricted feeding of infants following cleft lip and palate repair.
J Craniofac Surg. 1992 Jul;3(1):30-2.
Danner SC. Breastfeeding
the infant with a cleft defect. NAACOGS Clin Issu Perinat Womens
Health Nurs. 1992;3(4):634-9.
Weatherley-White RC, Kuehn DP, Mirrett P, Gilman JI, Weatherley-White
CC. Early
repair and breast-feeding for infants with cleft lip. Plast
Reconstr Surg. 1987 Jun;79(6):879-87.
Markowitz JA, Gerry RG, Fleishner R. Immediate
obturation of neonatal cleft palates. Mt Sinai J Med. 1979 Mar-Apr;46(2):123-9.
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