It can be managed by providing the parents appropriate training and appropriate bottles and nipples to be used. The child with an unrepaired cleft palate can learn to feed by bottle. Normally, these problems are usually short-term since a cleft lip is usually repaired at four to six months of age and a cleft palate is usually repaired around 12 months of age, so feeding problems caused by the cleft should not last longer than this.
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