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Infants born with a CL, CLP, or CP present with a variety of feeding challenges. Access to specialist knowledge, alternative feeding equipment, and a continuing supportive environment to help parents adapt to their new infant is not always available in many low-resource settings. This often results in a higher incidence of faltering growth. Careful attention to feeding assessment and management in infancy is essential, particularly for infants with a cleft involving the palate. Regular monitoring growth is important to assure adequate nutrition. Primary surgery is usually undertaken within the first postnatal year, and a poor nutritional status might may delay surgical reconstruction and increase complication rates.
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Bannister, P., Clarke, N. (2021). Early Nutrition, Feeding and Management of Infants with an Oral Cleft. In: Swanson, J.W. (eds) Global Cleft Care in Low-Resource Settings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59105-2_6
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