Adivce Need on How to Feed a Baby with Cleft Lip and Pallet Baby Food.

If you can get on the website widesmiles.org, they are supposed to have some great info on issues with cleft palates. I read that it is important to start out slow and have a lot of patience. One site that I looked at recommended starting with foods very liquidy so that they go down easier and then gradually start to thicken them. This is so they go down easier and don't come out of the nose as easy. One site I looked at said that it will take your son a little longer to get the hang of it but he will. If you go on yahoo and type in "starting solids with a cleft palate" you should get a lot of info. I hope this helps
K.

You probaly are already doing this but put a bunch of baby rice in his formula and that helps alot. Or like the other respond said put baby food in with his bottle and poke a little hole in his bottle. Hope something works and good luck!!!

put his solid foods in a bottle with the nipple opened a little more. then at least he is getting his solid foods. good luck

a friend of mine had a son with the same problem and she fed him with a meat baster. I know it sounds wierd but she would scqueeze the baster in small amounts into his mouth and this was how he got his food. It looked funny and I never forgot it from over 25 years ago.

She also made the formula thicker with cereal added to it.

Maybe this would work for you maybe not. I do not know.

D.