title: Understanding cleft lip and palate. 3: feeding the baby.
abstract: The third paper in this series on cleft lip and palate gives an overview of feeding a baby with a cleft lip and/or palate. It includes a description of the feeding assessment that all babies receive from the Cleft Specialist Nurse, the different methods of feeding that are likely to succeed with each cleft type, and other associated care and interventions.
authors.affiliation: West Midlands Regional Cleft Centre, Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham.
authors.forename: Annie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.forename: Jayne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tomlinson
authors.forename: Rona
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Slator
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Reading
mesh_terms: D001903:Bottle Feeding / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000150:complications / Q000451:nursing*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000150:complications / Q000451:nursing*; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009910:Oral Hygiene; D010855:Pierre Robin Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D013391:Sucking Behavior; D014886:Weaning